So often it feels like there are only two kinds of episodes of TV: the really, really good ones, or the terrible ones. Sadly, that is not the case, because both those options make for easier reviews than the one…
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‘The X-Files’ 11×07 Review: Who The Hell is Scott?
Don’t you feel like we’re on a train to s****ville and no matter what we do, no matter how comfortable the ride is, no matter how many tasty snacks they give us along the way, or how much they string…
The X-Files 11×06 Review: Please Stop Trying to Make Skinner Happen
Like fetch, it’s never, ever going to happen. Ever. I watched this hour so you wouldn’t have to, so enter here those who wish to avoid the Skinner crap. I’ve got all the good parts for you. The Mulder and…
‘The X-Files’ 11×05 Review: This William Nonsense
It made no sense then, it makes even less sense now. Welcome to the William arc, aka the most ridiculous thing The X-Files ever tried to pull on us, a tall order when you remember all the things CC actually…
‘The X-Files’ 11×03 Review: Platonic my arse
I’m going to start this review with a caveat, and I want to be really, really clear here. Just because you’re coming across a mostly positive review about a pretty decent episode of a show that changed my life, introduced…
The Gifted 1×12/1×13 Review: It’s The End of The World As We Know It
The Gifted goes for broke in its two-hour Season 1 finale *belts out REM’s It’s the End of the World as We Know It*, and as it’s been the case thorough the whole of its first season, we really, really…
‘The X-Files’ 11×02 Review: This is Better Than The Other Thing
Once Upon A Time, a long, long time ago, when I was a kid too young to be watching The X-Files and probably didn’t understand a thing of what was actually going on, I actually enjoyed mythology episodes. Of course,…
‘The X-Files’ 11×01 Review: Our Struggle
Chris Carter has a thing for repeating titles, as “My Struggle III” will attest to (and Redux II, The Sixth Extinction II, Nothing Important Happened Today II, etc). He also has a thing for complicated plot lines no one cares…
David Duchovny Talks ‘The X-Files’ Season 11 and a World that’s Receptive to Mulder
Fox Mulder was always an outsider. That was not just part of his charm, that was one of the things that made the show feel so distinctly sci-fi twenty something years ago, when our faith in the government and its…
Gillian Anderson Talks a Fun Season 11 of ‘The X-Files’
Gillian Anderson has embodied Dana Scully in such a way for so long that, despite the fact that she’s been anything but quiet the last few years, most of us tend to identify her with the character she made iconic.…