![]() The franchise centers on two FBI agents, Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, who head a special unit that investigates paranormal activity. After the show left TV, there was one more movie, The X-Files: I Want To Believe (2008) and two short reunion seasons in 20. The X-Files first aired in 1993 and aired for nine seasons, with one movie, The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) in the middle. He’d watched it live every week with his grad-school friends in the 90s even before my obsession with the show he owned over half of it on DVD. My dad had been pushing the X-Files agenda on us for years. It was like that for most of the first quarter of my freshman year. Then, when that got to be too much for them, we reduced it to one a night. I fell in love almost instantly with the characters, the plotlines, the endless conspiracies that took a turn with every episode.įor almost a month, I made my family watch two 45-minute episodes with me every single night. I watched the first episode curled up on the couch with some Milano cookies, and I was utterly hooked. I was in the mountains with my dad and my brother, and we’d brought the DVDs of season one along. Old habits die hard for Mr.Late last summer, I discovered The X-Files. At least S11's existence takes the sting off of that really abrupt cliffhanger. 3.5 stars because it's nice to see everyone again and because I prefer the MOTW episodes (as far as I'm concerned, the Myth Arc should've stopped with the Syndicate being taken out of commission in S6 by that point, the mythology felt superfluous and the fate of Mulder's sister was, no matter how much sense it made, was pretty much doomed to disappoint by the time it would be resolved). With its great cinematic presentation, strong performances and even being quite emotional (seriously, why's all the best dramatic material in the MOTW episodes?), the 10th season of The X-Files is a mess during its mythology episodes but good sci-fi horror-thriller fun during its "filler" episodes. ![]() Mulder and Scully's chemistry is just as great as ever, even in the episodes dealing with that pesky Myth Arc, the special effects look great, it's really funny (mostly Were-Monster but the weakest MOTW episode that definitely has a bit of an Islamophobic feel, which I'm guessing was influenced by current events that make certain people wish Jack Bauer was a real person, had that gloriously insane sequence where Mulder gets high that has to be seen to be believed) and shows that even after all these years (and with their arguable MVP Vince Gilligan now making his own critically adored shows meaning that he sadly couldn't return to pen even a single episode), The X-Files still has some ideas left. However, if you, like me, prefer the MOTW episodes, then you might have a better time watching the 10th season of The X-Files. The My Struggle episodes had their moments but no. Not to mention a very abrupt cliffhanger ending despite the show no longer having the same guarantee of a renewal that it had back when it was Fox's biggest non-Simpsons cash cow. There's retcons, a far-fetcged resurrection and still insisting on depicting an outdated mindset completely straight the depiction of conspiracy theorists as heroic crusaders rather than the delusional nutjobs they became regarded as in the 21st century. Not just because only 2 of those 6 episodes actually focus on the mythology, despite the much different television landscape compared to the show's '90s heyday, when only Babylon 5 punished anybody who missed a single episode but because of Chris Carter being Chris Carter. ![]() If you prefer the mythology episodes over the MOTW episodes, then the unexpected revival of The X-Files in the wake of I Want to Believe's failed attempt at resurrection will definitely upset you. ![]()
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