I wasn’t sure if The X-Files could wrap things up in just one episode, and while “My Struggle IV” proved they could, it came with a couple caveats: they wrapped up what they wanted to, nothing more, and they did it in one heck of a rush. Don’t get me wrong, the pacing actually wasn’t […]

Well, we were promised more background on Skinner this season, and while “Kitten” was a generally good episode, it also wasn’t really what I expected in regards to learning more about Skinner. Weirdly enough, even though I hoped for more about Skinner’s recent history and what’s going through his head with this whole Smoking Man […]

I’m not quite sure why I’ve been struggling to write my review of this week’s X-Files episode “Ghouli”, but I have a feeling it’s because I don’t think I liked it as much as I was supposed to. “Ghouli” certainly got off on the right foot; the opening scene had just the right amount of […]

This week’s rollicking good time of an episode, “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat”, was another one in the vein of “Jose Chung’s from Outer Space” and season 10’s “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster”…but as silly as it was, it also made some really good (if harsh) points about the current state of society. […]

While I wasn’t fond of the season 11 premiere, it’s safe to say that The X-Files is back on track with “Plus One”, which was a great follow-up to last week’s “This”. I’ll get this out of the way – perhaps I missed something, but the one thing that confused me about “Plus One” was […]

It’s been a really long time since an episode of The X-Files dangled something so darn hopeful in my face…and then snatched it away so quickly, while still delivering a really, really good episode. “This” was all that and maybe a little bit more. When Langly appeared on Mulder’s phone, my first thought was “YES! […]

The first season of The X-Files revival left us dangling nearly two years ago, but the finale that left me asking, “Wait, what? Why?” with all of its loose ends was almost entirely wrapped up in the season 11 premiere, “My Struggle III”. I suppose I should have expected as much based on the episode […]