The sixth season of The X-Files kind of ignores the movie as it makes the move to sunny, sunny California, in “The Beginning”. Vince Gilligan gives us a taut thriller with “Drive”.
Tuning In Episode 98: The X-Files: The Beginning/Drive
Tuning In Episode 97: The X-Files: Fight the Future
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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”.
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”.
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.
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”.
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.