C+
Mulder and Scully close an X-File no one asked for
Give it this much: “My Struggle IV” does its level best to tie off loose ends. Season 10 ended with a wildly ambitious…
The X-Files - Season 11
B+
A gory X-Files offers up a new kind of vampire
It would be going too far to say that “Nothing Lasts Forever” is The X-Files’ goriest episode. For one thing, the show…
B
An okay X-Files is elevated by a nifty monster
The title gives the game away. The name “Familiar” refers to the shape-shifting demon who appears multiple times…
A
A marvelous X-Files has Scully and Mulder hunted by the pest in the machine
We’re living in the future now, when things are supposed to be easier. And they are, they are. Most of us carry small…
B+
Skinner heads to the woods for a pretty good X-Files
“Kitten” opens with a Vietnam War flashback. This isn’t new ground for the show—the war, with its morass of political…
B
Scully has strange dreams on a twisty X-Files
Fairly early in “Ghouli,” Mulder complains about the state of modern monsters while Scully looks up creepy pasta on the…
A
A delightful X-Files plays with memory, lawn darts
“I’ve stumbled on the conspiracy to end all conspiracies,” says the guy, and even though he’s arguably right, it’s also…
B-
A killer game of Hangman makes for inarticulate X-Files
We’ve had a mythology episode, and a mythology-plus-standalone episode. “Plus One” is the first fully committed Monster…
B+
The X-Files has style to burn in "This"
It’s something of a surprise that “This” tries to blend a standalone concept with serialization. For most of its run, Th…
C+
The X-Files re-returns, and it's not as bad as it might've been
After last season’s disastrous finale, I was surprised to find myself somehow still excited at the prospect of more X-Fi…