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"Born Again/Roland/The Erlenmeyer Flask"
Episode 21-23
"Born Again"
Children are a mystery. The blank expressions, the sticky fingers, the randomness. The randomness...
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"Shapes/Darkness Falls/Tooms"
Episode 18-20
"Shapes"
So, werewolves, then. Werewolves.
Sigh.
I have nothing against lycanthropes, you...
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"Young At Heart/E.B.E./Miracle Man"
Episode 15-17
"Young At Heart"
A note to all government sponsored mad scientists: look, we get it. You need test subjects. Human test...
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"Beyond The Sea"/"Gender Bender"/"Lazurus"
Episode 12-14
Before we get into things, a little damage control. I, as you may have noticed, am not Keith Phipps. You can blame my parents for that one. But...
B+
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"Fallen Angel" / "Eve" / "Fire"
Episode 10-12
X-Files Season 1 Batch 5
"Fallen Angel"
Part of what I like about The X-Files is the way it never loses track...
B+
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"Ghost In The Machine" / "Ice" / "Space"
Episode 7 - 9
"Ghost In The Machine"
Before we begin digging into this episode, I'd like to share a story. The year was 1991 and I was a...
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"Conduit" / "The Jersey Devil" / "Shadows"
Episode 3 - 5
"Conduit"
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If you clicked "play" above you're now listening to the first movement from Bach's...
B+
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"Deep Throat"/"Squeeze"
Episode 2 & 3
"Deep Throat"
The first proper episode of The X-Files plays almost like an extension of the pilot. We have a new...
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"Pilot"
Episode 1
Warning: Simply reading this might be dangerous. Check over your shoulder. Pull the shades. Dim the lights. Together we can inch...
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"Red Museum/Excelsis Dei/Aubrey"
Episode 10-12
Looks like this is it, gang, our last entry before the grand hiatus. Much as I'd like to go out with a bang, the three episodes...
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"3/One Breath/Firewalker"
Episode 7, 8, 9
So, vampires, then. Vampires.
Sigh.
For the first twenty minutes of "3," I was doing okay. Not great, but okay....
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"Sleepless/Duane Barry/Ascension"
Episode 4-6
"Trust is a hard thing to come by these days." -The Thing
On one level,...
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"Little Green Men/The Host/Blood"
Episode 1-3
I used to be a huge "Scooby Doo" fan. The jokes were terrible and the characters about as complex as a hula hoop schematic, but it...
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“Biogenesis”/“Goodbye To All That”
Episode 22
The X-Files gears up for a new arc, and we say goodbye to Millennium.
B
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“Field Trip”/“Via Dolorosa”
Episode 21
One of the most satisfying episodes of X-Files' sixth season tackles the season's hallucinatory bent head-on.
B
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“Three Of A Kind”/“Nostalgia”
Episode 20
The Lone Gunmen cut a caper, while something depressing (but good!) happens on Millennium.
B+
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“The Unnatural”/“Seven And One”
Episode 19
Aliens playing baseball? Now we've seen everything!
B+
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“Milagro”/“Bardo Thodol”
Episode 18
Writers ruin everything.
B-
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“Trevor”/“Darwin’s Eye”
Episode 17
Two mediocre episodes reveal one series painting by the numbers and one frantically trying to change.
C
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“Alpha”/“Saturn Dreaming Of Mercury”
Episode 16
Bad dogs and worse neighbors make for a disappointing double feature.
C+
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“Arcadia”/“Forcing The End”
Episode 15
Mulder and Scully are married! Mulder and Scully are married! And the episode where they are isn't as good as it could be.
B-
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“Monday”/“Matryoshka”
Episode 14
Mulder and Scully finds out what happens when there isn't any tomorrow.
B
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“Agua Mala”/“Antipas”
Episode 13
A famously bad X-Files episode leads into a Millennium that seems like a different show entirely.
C
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“One Son”/“The Sound Of Snow”
Episode 12
The aliens are confusing, and Millennium steps up its game.
B+
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“Two Fathers”/“Collateral Damage”
Episode 11
The X-Files tries to clarify its mythology and mostly makes a Shakespearean psychodrama about Spender.
B
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“Tithonus”/“Borrowed Time”
Episode 10
Scully sees the world in more than just black and white, and the clock is ticking for Jordan Black.
B+
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“S.R. 819”/“Omertà”
Episode 9
Skinner gets wrapped up in a turgid conspiracy plot, and women who might be angels push mobsters on swings.
C
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“The Rain King”/“Human Essence”
Episode 8
This week's forecast calls for blue skies and a whole lot of gray.
C+
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“Terms Of Endearment”/“Through A Glass Darkly”
Episode 7
Bruce Campbell is a demon who just wants a nice, normal life, while Millennium hits a low point.
C
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“How The Ghosts Stole Christmas”/“Skull And Bones”
Episode 6
It's Christmas in July, as Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin try to scare Mulder and Scully to death. (Part of Best of TV Club.)
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“Dreamland II”/“...Thirteen Years Later”
Episode 5
Two humorous episodes make fun of Fox Mulder and Frank Black.
B
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“Dreamland”/“Closure”
Episode 4
Mulder tries on Michael McKean's shoes and wackiness ensues. Also, people die on Millennium.
B
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“Triangle”/“TEOTWAWKI”
Episode 3
Mulder gets lost in the Bermuda Triangle in a very fun X-Files, as Millennium falls prey to Y2K fervor.
B-
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“Drive”/“Exegesis”
Episode 2
Bryan Cranston meets Vince Gilligan and gets the world's worst headache.
B+
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“The Beginning”/“The Innocents”
Episode 1
The aliens head for sunnier climes, and Frank Black gets a new partner.
B-
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"Je Souhaite"/"Requiem"
Episode 21-22
Two of the best episodes of season seven could function as series finales.
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"Hollywood A.D."/"Fight Club"
Episode 19-20
Mulder and Scully go to Hollywood, and then Kathy Griffin shows up and ruins everything.
C
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“all things”/“Brand X”
Episode 17-18
Scully and Mulder (maybe) sleep together, and bugs invade the lungs.
C
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"Em Ami"/"Chimera"
Episode 15-16
Scully and the Cigarette Smoking Man go on a road trip, and Mulder fights a monster.
B+
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“First Person Shooter”/“Theef”
Episode 13-14
One of the worst X-Files episodes ever butts up against a rather underrated one.
C
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“Closure”/“X-Cops”
Episode 11-12
Mulder finds what he's looking for, and the show has an unexpected crossover.
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“Signs & Wonders”/“Sein Und Zeit”
Episode 9-10
Mulder searches for his sister yet again in an episode with an unfairly negative reputation.
B
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“Orison”/“The Amazing Maleeni”
Episode 7-8
An old enemy escapes, and Mulder and Scully have fun with magic.
B+
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“Rush”/“The Goldberg Variation”
Episode 5-6
Two episodes show off the show's need for a strong guest cast in its later years.
B
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“Hungry”/“Millennium”
Episode 3-4
A monster of the week takes center stage, and Frank Black leaves for good.
B
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“The Sixth Extinction”/“The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati”
Episode 1-2
A ridiculous two-parter takes itself way, way too seriously and is all the more fun for it.
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