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The X-Files: season 2, episode 10-12
"Red Museum/Excelsis Dei/Aubrey"
September 5, 2008 - 07:09a.m.
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 we're looking at today don't really allow for it. None of ...
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The X-Files
"3/One Breath/Firewalker"
August 29, 2008 - 07:08a.m.
So, vampires, then. Vampires.
Sigh.
For the first twenty minutes of "3," I was doing okay. Not great, but okay. There was a serious USA Up All Night vibe going on, from the opening scene with an old dude and ...
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The X-Files: season 2, episode 4-6
"Sleepless/Duane Barry/Ascension"
August 22, 2008 - 09:08a.m.
"Trust is a hard thing to come by these days." -The Thing
On one level, "Sleepless" is your standard MotW riff. The premise–a government conducted experiment during the Vietnam War that created a group of soldiers who could stay ...
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The X-Files: season 2, episode 1-3
"Little Green Men/The Host/Blood"
August 15, 2008 - 08:08a.m.
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 had a sort-of talking dog, a dude in an ascot, and an endless supply ...
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The X-Files: season 1, episode 21-23
"Born Again/Roland/The Erlenmeyer Flask"
August 8, 2008 - 01:08p.m.
"Born Again"
Children are a mystery--the blank expressions, the sticky fingers, the randomness. The randomness especially; everything else you can chalk up to a sugar addiction, but the opacity, the lack of an understandable motivation outside of fever dream logic ...
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The X-Files: season 1, episode 18-20
"Shapes/Darkness Falls/Tooms"
August 1, 2008 - 01:08p.m.
"Shapes"
So, werewolves, then. Werewolves.
Sigh.
I have nothing against lycanthropes, you understand. An American Werewolf In London, The Howling, Ginger Snaps--all good stuff. My problem with "Shapes" is less a matter of concept than something I mentioned last ...
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The X-Files: season 1, episode 15-17
"Young At Heart/E.B.E./Miracle Man"
July 24, 2008 - 11:07p.m.
"Young At Heart"
A note to all government sponsored mad scientists: look, we get it. You need test subjects. Human test subjects. Orphans are great and all, but they're so damn tiny, and you disappear a dozen of 'em ...
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The X-Files: season 1, episode 12-14
"Beyond The Sea"/"Gender Bender"/"Lazurus"
July 18, 2008 - 01:07p.m.
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 despite my utter lack of Phippsiousity, I am going to be taking ...
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The X-Files: season 1, episode 10-12
"Fallen Angel" / "Eve" / "Fire"
July 11, 2008 - 08:07a.m.
"Fallen Angel"
Part of what I like about The X-Files is the way it never loses track of the human toll exacted by all the dark goings on. It's a series grounded in a dark, sci-fi fantasyland, to be ... -
The X-Files: season 1, episode 7 - 9
"Ghost In The Machine" / "Ice" / "Space"
July 5, 2008 - 08:07a.m.
"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 freshman in college. My roommate, who was more technically inclined than me (hiya Chris ... -
The X-Files: season 1, episode 3 - 5
"Conduit" / "The Jersey Devil" / "Shadows"
June 27, 2008 - 10:06a.m.
"Conduit"
"Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 In G Major, Allegro" by The New London Consort
If you clicked "play" above you're now listening to the first movement from Bach's fourth Brandenburg concerto, a piece of music so transcendent that ... -
The X-Files: season 1, episode 2 & 3
"Deep Throat"/"Squeeze"
June 20, 2008 - 09:06a.m.
"Deep Throat"
The first proper episode of The X-Files plays almost like an extension of the pilot. We have a new story, sure, but it continues the pilot's project of slowly immersing viewers in the series' shadowy world while ... -
The X-Files: season 1, episode 1
"Pilot"
June 13, 2008 - 08:06a.m.
Warning: Simply reading this might be dangerous. Check over your shoulder. Pull the shades. Dim the lights. Together we can inch toward the shadowy truth, one frustratingly enigmatic revelation after another. It's not going to be simple. And it ...
