The X-Files/Millennium

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Current Season: N/A - Total Episodes: 71
Highest Rated: Ep 12, Season 5 & 2

Martin Landau can't believe he had to deliver all of the exposition in the movie.

The X-Files: Fight The Future

by Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff September 3, 2011 -

“The Fourth Horseman”/“The Time Is Now”

by Todd VanDerWerff August 27, 2011 -

“Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me”

by Zack Handlen August 20, 2011 -

No paperwork was harmed in the making of this screenshot.

B+

"The End"/"A Room With No View"

by Zack Handlen August 13, 2011 -

Ep. N/A, Season N/A
The X-Files: Fight The Future
Ep. 22-23, Season 5 & 2
“The Fourth Horseman”/“The Time Is Now”
Ep. 21, Season 2
“Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me”
Ep. 20, Season 5 & 2
"The End"/"A Room With No View"

Features Reviews

Season

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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...
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B+
"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...
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B+
"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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B-
"Conduit" / "The Jersey Devil" / "Shadows"
Episode 3 - 5

"Conduit" [audio:81898] If you clicked "play" above you're now listening to the first movement from Bach's...
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B+
"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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A-
"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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A-

"F. Emasculata"/"Soft Light"/"Our Town"/"Anasazi"
Episode 22-25

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“Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me”
Episode 21

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A
"Død Kalm"/"Humbug"/"The Calusari"
Episode 19-21

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B
"Colony"/"End Game"/"Fearful Symmetry"
Episode 16-18

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B+
"Irresistible"/"Die Hand Die Verletzt"/"Fresh Bones"
Episode 13-15

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B+
"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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"Quagmire"/"Wetwired"/"Talitha Cumi"
Episode 22-24

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A-
"Hell Money"/"Jose Chung's From Outer Space"/"Avatar"
Episode 19-21

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B+
"Apocrypha"/"Pusher"/"Teso Dos Bichos"
Episode 16-18

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B+
"Syzygy"/"Grotesque"/"Piper Maru"
Episode 13-15

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B+
"731"/"Revelations"/"War of the Coprophages"
Episode 10-12

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A
"The Walk"/"Oubliette"/"Nisei"
Episode 7-9

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B+
"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"/"The List"/"2Shy"
Episode 4-6

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B+
"The Blessing Way"/"Paper Clip"/"DPO"
Episode 1-3

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B+

"Elegy"/"Paper Dove"
Episode 22

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B
"Zero Sum"/"Maranatha"
Episode 21

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"Small Potatoes"/"Broken World"
Episode 20

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B
"Synchrony"/"Powers, Principalities, Thrones, And Dominions"
Episode 19

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B+
"Max"/"Lamentation"
Episode 18

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A
"Tempus Fugit"/"Walkabout"
Episode 17

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"Unrequited"/"Covenant"
Episode 16

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B
"Kaddish"/"Sacrament"
Episode 15

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"Memento Mori"/"The Thin White Line"
Episode 14

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A
"Never Again"/"Force Majeure"
Episode 13

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A
"Leonard Betts"/"Loin Like A Hunting Flame"
Episode 12

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C
"El Mundo Gira"/"Weeds"
Episode 11

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B
"Paper Hearts"/"The Wild And The Innocent"
Episode 10

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B+
"Terma"/"Wide Open"
Episode 9

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B
"Tunguska"/"The Well-Worn Lock"
Episode 8

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B
"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man"/"Blood Relatives"
Episode 7

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"Sanguinarium"/"Kingdom Come"
Episode 6

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C
"The Field Where I Died"/"522666"
Episode 5

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B
"Unruhe"/"The Judge"
Episode 4

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B
"Teliko"/"Dead Letters"
Episode 3

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B
"Home"/"Gehenna"
Episode 2

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B
"Herrenvolk"/"Pilot"
Episode 1

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B+
"Demons"/"Gethsemane"
Episode 23-24

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A-

“The Fourth Horseman”/“The Time Is Now”
Episode 22-23

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A
"The End"/"A Room With No View"
Episode 20

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B+
"Folie a Deux"/"Anamnesis"
Episode 19

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B+
"The Pine Bluff Variant"/"In Arcadia Ego"
Episode 18

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"All Souls"/"Siren"
Episode 17

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B
"Mind's Eye"/"Roosters"
Episode 16

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B+
"Travelers"/"Owls"
Episode 15

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"The Red And The Black"/"The Pest House"
Episode 14

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A-
"Patient X"/"The Mikado"
Episode 13

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"Bad Blood"/"Luminary"
Episode 12

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A
"Kill Switch"/"Goodbye, Charlie"
Episode 11

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B+
"Chinga"/"Midnight Of The Century"
Episode 10

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B
"Schizogeny"/"Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense"
Episode 9

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C+
"Kitsunegari"/"The Hand Of St. Sebastian"
Episode 8

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B
"Emily"/"19:19"
Episode 7

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B
"The Curse Of Frank Black"/"Christmas Carol"
Episode 6

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A
"The Post-Modern Prometheus"/"A Single Blade Of Grass"
Episode 5

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A
"Detour"/"Monster"
Episode 4

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"Unusual Suspects"/"Sense And Antisense"
Episode 3

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B
"Redux, Part 2"/"Beware Of The Dog"
Episode 2

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A-
"Redux"/"The Beginning And The End"
Episode 1

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B

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Alex Gansa walks us through Homeland’s first season (Part 2 of 4)
In the second of a four-part series, the co-creator of Homeland guides us through the show’s first season.
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Alex Gansa walks us through Homeland’s first season (Part 1 of 4)
In the first of a four-part series, one of the co-creators of Homeland guides us through the show’s first season.
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Best show, best episode
We’ve discussed the worst episodes of our favorite shows. But what about the best episodes, the ones that exemplify everything that makes our favorites great?
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Farscape: The Complete Series
In a down time for spaceship series on TV, this sci-fi favorite found its niche.
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The TV parents we want
“If you could have any TV couple as your parents, who would you choose?”
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Favorite TV themes
This week, a reader asks us to help work out a list of the best TV-show theme songs in history, but demands we acknowledge The Rockford Files first.
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Jack The Ripper in the 23rd century: 21-plus unexpectedly scary episodes of not-so-scary TV shows
The A.V. Club's weekly list.
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Actors we hate in movies and TV we love
Sometimes even your least favorite actors can’t spoil something really good.
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William B. Davis
We talk with The X-Files’ enigmatic Cigarette Smoking Man, on the occasion of the launch of his autobiography.
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Vince Gilligan walks us through Breaking Bad’s 4th season (Part 3 of 4)
In the third of a four-part series, the creator of Breaking Bad guides us through the show’s heart-stopping fourth season.
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Vince Gilligan walks us through Breaking Bad’s 4th season (Part 2 of 4)
In the second of a four-part series, the creator of Breaking Bad guides us through the show's heart-stopping fourth season.
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“And no one will ever mention it again, under penalty of torture”: 21 forgotten TV subplots
The A.V. Club’s weekly list.
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Join us Saturday for a live-chat of the first X-Files movie
Todd VanDerWerff and Zack Handlen's reviews of The X-Files have finally reached the point where the show attempted to reach out to the broader audience of America's X-Files neophytes by putting a movie based on the show's labyrinthine my...
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Karen Gillan
The Doctor’s companion talks about how her character fits into the tradition of science fiction heroines and what’s next for Doctor Who.
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