We have reached the first X-Files movie, and it’s a very weird and not entirely successful mishmash that attempts to tell a self-contained mythology story to get both fans and people that have never seen an episode into the theaters. iTunes RSS
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Tuning In Episode 96: The X-Files, Folie a Deux/The End
Vince Gilligan gives us perhaps his best episode yet with “Folie a Deux”, and we reach “The End” of the fifth season. iTunes RSS
Tuning In Episode 95: The X-Files, All Souls/The Pine Bluff Variant
It’s John Shiban week on Tuning In! First up, Shiban gives us the simultaneously boring and offensive “All Souls”. Then, he contributes a taut action thriller with “The Pine Bluff Variant”. iTunes RSS
Tuning In Episode 94: The X-Files, Travellers/Mind’s Eye
We get another flashback episode, this time to J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and the origin of the x-files, in “Travellers”. Then in “Mind’s Eye”, Lili Taylor does her best to make a mediocre episode something better. iTunes RSS
Tuning In Episode 93: The X-Files, Patient X/The Red and the Black
The mythology makes another appearance and this time, we get some (vague) answers, in the two-parter “Patient X” and “The Red and the Black”. iTunes RSS
Tuning In Episode 92: The X-Files, Kill Switch/Bad Blood
Coming on the heels of Stephen King’s “Chinga”, “Kill Switch” is a pretty standard William Gibson story. However, there’s nothing standard about “Bad Blood”. iTunes RSS
Tuning In Episode 91: The X-Files, Schizogeny/Chinga
Season five gives us the worst episode in quite a while, “Schizogeny”, and Stephen King pens “Chinga”, which is mostly lazy but does feature some solid Mulder and Scully dynamic. iTunes RSS
Tuning In Episode 90: The X-Files, Emily/Kitsunegari
“Emily” is a mostly-disappointing resolution to last week’s cliffhanger, and “Kitsunegari” is a mostly-disappointing follow-up to season three’s “Pusher”. iTunes RSS
Tuning In Episode 89: The X-Files, The Post-Modern Prometheus/Christmas Carol
Are you ready for a heady discussion about personal truth and the fallibility of memory? Then get ready for our conversation about “The Post-Modern Prometheus”. Then in “Christmas Carol”, Scully gets involved in an apparent suicide, with very personal consequences. iTunes RSS
Tuning In Episode 88: The X-Files, Unusual Suspects/Detour
We’re still about two months away from The X-Files: Fight the Future, but it’s already having an effect on the show, as “Unusual Suspects” gives us the Lone Gunmen origin story we didn’t know we needed. Then, “Detour” gives us the singing Scully we didn’t know we needed. iTunes RSS