Tuning In reaches its final episode as Mulder and Scully go on a “Field Trip”. We also talk about the series as a whole. But don’t despair about the end of Tuning In–head over to trekaboutshow.com for more of our podcasting. Thanks for listening!
David Duchovny writes and directs his first episode of the show, and “The Unnatural” brings us maybe the strongest disagreement yet. Then in “Three of a Kind”, the Lone Gunmen try to rescue someone.
“Trevor” is a complete mess of an episode that almost defeats us. Then in “Milagro”, a pretentious writer defeats himself.
The X-Files goes all-in on the shipping in “Arcadia”, and then in “Alpha”, a ship brings trouble.
Mulder and Scully head to Florida to meet with Arthur Dales and get stuck in a bad sitcom in “Agua Mala”, and then the agents get stuck in the same day in “Monday”.
Somewhat bizarrely, The X-Files has decided to end the mythology storyline in the middle of the sixth season. The two-parter “Two Fathers” and “One Son” is somewhat successful but still leaves us wanting an actual explanation.
We get another Skinner-centric episode with “S.R. 819” and a Scully-centric episode with “Tithonus”.
Bruce Campbell appears on The X-Files in “Terms of Endearment”, and weather appears in “The Rain King”.
On the Tuning In 100th episode spectacular, we wrap up the body-switch two-parter by dunking on “Dreamland II”, then The X-Files gets really, really weird in “How the Ghosts Stole Christmas”.
Chris Carter must really be obsessed with The Wizard of Oz, as he gives us a riff on it in the remarkable “Triangle”. Then, the show decides to become terrible in “Dreamland”.