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Things Are Getting Strange
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Episodes
- Things Are Getting Strange
Billy Miles: Weakness: Doors
Not to The Doors slightly sadly. That would be a bit too surreal. But certainly, closing and not even locking a door is enough to deter the new villainous…
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Passing the Time as the Black Oil
Its never bad to have an episode where Reyes shows up. Though Empedocles does stress this attitude. For the main plot, Reyes herself prompts all kinds of…
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Punching Krycek in the Face
So Krycek's back in Deadalive. What has he been doing? Did he tell anyone he killed CSM off last season? Why does he want Skinner to prevent Scully from giving…
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Alien in Nikes
It is hard not to question Scully's decision-making ability in Per Manum. Not least because she figures the best place to hide out while conspiratorial stuff…
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Worse Than the Mayor from Jaws
We're back! After injury and illness, we return to watch Doggett die in The Gift! It is perhaps not as big a spoiler as you might imagine given he's perfectly…
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The Tetsuo in the Room
We watched Tetsuo the Iron Man ahead of Salvage this week. Mostly because Salvage is an admitted version of the film. The experience was illuminating but did…
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Skinman Does Some Muldering
The premise and intent behind Via Negativa is really neat and interesting! The actual episode starts really strongly and then loses its way somewhat…
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Hey Tristan
That Doggett can go through the events of Invocation and come out the other side to dismiss anything happening in Redrum is nothing short of astonishing. Never…
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Worm Emperor
A decidedly odd start to Doggett's time on the X-Files. And we can't ignore that it would be more effective if Patience and Roadrunners was swapped in the…
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Whatever Happened to Strughold?
New season and new character! With Within we welcome John Doggett to The X-Files and indeed, the X-Files. Our new hardened skeptic to Scully's abruptly much…
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Teens with Giger Counters
Is it ever possible to have a story wherein a character is granted three wishes and for them to not screw up immediately? Je Souhaite certainly paints none of…
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The Second Rule
Not sure if the first episode to receive the treatment, but it turns out Mythbusters specifically took down one of the central premises of this episode as…
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Sinister Buddhas
The enduring question we were left with all things was what happened? The answer seemingly was Carter and Spotnitz who did things to the episode and…
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Water Skiing Lessons
We are very much ignoring the future of En Ami. We know and we will get to it. Later. For now, we have questions about extraneous other angels and the complete…
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The Sexy Lamp Test
If you are at all convinced by the advertising, the promotional gimmicks, the press interviews for First Person Shooter, we are here to tell you in no…
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Nice Episode, Shame About the Plot
And thus we learn the final fate of Samantha Mulder! Is it satisfying? No. Closure is very touching and quite beautiful and well acted. But as a capstone to a…
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Use the Snackle Remover on Paper Hearts 2.0
Content warning: mentions of animal abuse, implied incest, child death Signs and Wonders is somewhat diminished when we learned about the various animal…
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Episode Hijack
It is hard to watch Orison without immediately concluding that Scully is totally getting fired right after the climax of the episode. And yet - based on The…
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Scratchcard Lore
At this point, it is quite impossible to talk about Rush without also mentioning Chronicle. And we can't! We get into how similar the two instances are and how…
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The Four Zombies of the Apocalypse
Mulder may often feel like a jerk, but Hungry kinda paints him as a predator playing with his food as he takes his sweet time doing anything about poor old Rob…
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Craig Willmore Simulator
Taking a brief break from Season 7, we try to give an overview of the first X-Files game - The X-Files Game. We get into FMV games as a whole and the specific…
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Zombies Stole My Spaceship
While it might be a metaphor for the loss of the "truth" in The Sixth Extinction, it is impossible not to interpret the order of events wherein Dr. Barnes…
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Shooting Skinner
This then is the end of The X-Files. No. Really. Fine. The point is we can't actually be sure that anything that happens after Field Trip in fact happens in…
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The Ragamuffin
Nick has to insist quite a lot that he likes this episode though is not sold on baseball. Which it very much what The Unnatural is all about. A love letter to…
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Phonebooth of Hope
Startlingly the first episode this week Scully actually suggests Spontaneous Human Combustion as a possible cause of death. Which if we're honest shouldn't be…
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Large Wooden Badgers
Content Warning: multiple dog deaths Arcadia is satire with a capital S. Perfect community built on top of a landfill. Oh and enforced by a trash golem! Or…
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Scully Clone Army
Back to the monster of the week(s)! Well, monster of the week anyway. Agua Mala is a comedic bottle episode with a unnerving monster, some amusing character…
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Alien Party Bus
Could this be the end of the conspiracy? Is the planned for day here (about a decade early)? We discuss much of the conspiracy's tangles in Two Fathers. And…
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Doctor vs Doctor vs Nano Machines
SR819 features nano machines and a decidedly confusing plot about Skinner! Until it stops being about Skinner with extreme rapidity and we wonder how Mulder…
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Mulder and Scully Dating Agency
Content warning: child death, forced abortions, animal abuse After a run of comedic episodes, season 6 swerves hard into perhaps the darkest plotline The…
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Mulder, Hula Hooping
Dreamland II continues with some possible stake-raising. Can Mulder and Fletcher get back to their original bodies? And what might be the fallout if they can?…
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Lawful Stupid
Triangle is the second X-Files time-travel episode! Maybe. It could be the first Wizard of Oz X-Files episode which does make everything a lot weirder. And if…
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Alien Day Care
The X-Files returns to TV with season 6. And a new locale. One these first two episodes are not remotely subtle about... For The Beginning, we talk about…
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Barbecuing with Kurtzweil
We're off to the movies! The X-Files film (or Fight the Future - however rightly or wrongly it is so named) still holds up really well all these years later…
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Gregor Samsa Awoke to Find He was a Tele-Marketer
The inevitable episode where Mulder gets himself committed. Folie a Deux is a great creepy episode that is almost a black comedy, but remains a fine…
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With Music By Mark Snow
It feels a lot like All Souls forgets all about the events of Revelations from season 2 - that time it heavily implied Scully was set to be the next Messiah's…
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Rosebud Makes More Sense
...as final words instead of a guy shot by a cop blurting out 'Mulder'. Well, I suppose he had to get involved in this flashback into the 1950s for Travellers…
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Cushy Alien Abductions
Patient X asks the question of "What would The X-Files be like if Mulder was an absolute jerk" and reveals that it makes us really want to strangle him in this…
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Taylor Swift Not Included
We're heading back to the 80s for some serious cyberpunk action in the first episode this week with Kill Switch! But somewhat disappointed. Invisigoth has a…
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Stephen King Country
Content warning - Schizogeny - discussion/depictions of child abuse Content warning - Chinga - above average violence Schizogeny often ranks amongst the least…
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Sorry Mulder, Pusher is in Another Castle
Content warning for Emily - Child death and discussions of sexual assault While Christmas Carol hinted at some conspiratorial follow-ups, we weren't really…
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Christmas with the Scully's
Content warning for The Post-Modern Prometheus - discussion of sexual assault Content warning for Christmas Carol - discussion of suicide It's The X-Files…
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The Best Kung Fu
The X-Files takes a trip back to 1989 and the formation of the Lone Gunmen. Also plausibly how Mulder's interest in aliens originated too. We talk the big…
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Whenever a Corpse is Found Desecrated...
The answer of how Mulder's dead body can be identified in Gethsemane and this not be David Duchovny leaving the series turns out to involve literal murder. And…
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Lord Kinbote Lives
Content warning - depictions and discussions of suicide Ketamine is a very different substance to whatever Herbert West uses in Re-Animator. But The X-Files…
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The Dude Abides
Content warning for Elegy - depictions of autism Welcome to the Skinner show! In this week's episode - Zero Sum - Skinner is embroiled in the shadowy cover-up…
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The Lone Gunmen and Cheese Steaks
Content warning for Small Potatoes - discussions of sexual assault A glimpse of the future! Or at least there was a future for the time-travel episode of The…
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Worst Birthday Ever
Is this Scully's worst birthday ever? A surprise rendition of Happy Birthday, an Apollo 11 key-chain, Mulder suggesting a plane crash is due to a UFO and then…
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Were-rats Would Be Better
Content Warning: discussions of anti-semitism Come to New York! See none of the famous landmarks! I guess Kaddish is set in Queens, but still... We talk about…
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Moose and Squirrel
Never Again provokes the unexpected question: did Morgan and Wong really not like returning to The X-Files after Space: Above and Beyond? Inevitably this…
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Prestige Considerations
It was, perhaps, inevitable that The X-Files would do an episode on the chupacabra at one point. Only, El Mundo Gira isn't really about the chupacabra. Its not…
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Mulder's X-File
Terma somewhat disappointed after such a strong opener in Tunguska. We're not sure if the writers quite understand how vaccines work (like at all). Nor are we…
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CSM, In the Sewer, With the Sniper Rifle
The shocking truth about Cancer Man's past and how he killed significant people! Or Cancer Man's thinly veiled autobiography passed off as fiction? You decide…
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No Sunglasses
Content Warnings - themes of abuse against women and children, gore, fear of doctors/medical procedures. The Field Where I Died is a very polarising episode in…
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Invasive Spikes
Content warning - potential racial insensitivity, discussions centred around lobotomy. In both episodes! We're not sure Howard Gordon was really the right…
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Just Lock Your Doors
Content Warning for Home - Abuse, incest, infant death are all fundamental aspects of the episode plot. There are no easy answers for Mulder in Herrenvolk. The…
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Mulder is Bad at Anagrams
Wetwired feels a whole lot like a re-do of Blood (from Season 2) with a bit of Ghost in the Shell eye-hacking on top. Not that it is anime-style eye-hacking…
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The Other, Other Avatar
Content warning - Animal Death in Quagmire The first of this week's episodes doesn't involve war in Ba Sing Se. Or Unobtainium on other planets. Instead we get…
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Not How I Remember It
We would (quite seriously) love to see James Hong be cast as a CSM equivalent or just be a member of the syndicate in general, but in the likely absence of…
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It Doesn't Belong in a Museum
Pusher is that rare thing - an episode Nick is unable to find much of a fault with at first. Blackly comedic and engaging, this cat and mouse encounter between…