![]() ![]() The references to plot elements from the show are clearly explained, and the impact of those experiences is primarily emotional. I Want to Believe is somewhat underrated as it’s a pretty decent Monster of the Week story, and you don’t need to have seen any of the TV series in order to enjoy it. Yes, we put both the movies right next to each other. Feige and the MCU producers, take note – most cinema-goers don’t want to have to do homework before watching a movie. So although the film itself is actually pretty good and has some nice action sequences, it simply isn’t all that satisfying as a motion picture experience. The mythology hadn’t yet become as nonsensical as it later did, but this is a film that requires viewers to have watched five seasons of television, and that offers little in the way of resolution. The biggest problem with this film is that it’s an integral part of the myth-arc story. Long before the MCU started tying major motion pictures releases to television series and vice versa, there was the first of the two X-Files movies. Worst episode: “Fight Club” – The X-Files was usually good at comedy episodes, but when a comedy episode completely fails to be funny in any way, it doesn’t go well. “Millennium” features Mulder and Scully’s first kiss, which was a huge deal at the time, but there’s a bit of a tired feeling to some of it, though there’s still fun to be had with episodes like the meta “Hollywood AD.”īest episode: “X-Cops” – A crossover between The X-Filesand hit reality TV show Cops doesn’t sound like it should work but it really, really does. As a result, it finally offers a conclusion to the show’s very first mystery, the disappearance of Samantha Mulder, but that conclusion was not well received by all fans – it’s emotionally affecting, but tries to make her disappearance both part of the myth-arc and something slightly separate, trying to have its cake and eat it and draw on the success of “Paper Hearts,” but without really committing to the idea. It’s the first of many seasons that could have been the last one, and it is the last season from the original run to feature Mulder full time. Worst episode(s): “My Struggle III & IV” – When you write a season opener and finale so disappointing that your lead actress simply refuses to come back to the show, you know you messed up. And although “My Struggle III” and “IV” are predictably terrible, the other myth-arc episode of the season, “Ghouli,” is actually pretty decent, because it leans into the most engaging aspect of the myth-arc, the emotional impact. “This” and “Nothing Lasts Forever” are also less than great – the writing in “This” is especially painful – but the other Monster of the Week episodes that made up this 10-episode season are all pretty solid and “Familiar” is especially strong, returning to several elements of the early seasons, including brutal murders, dark, wet woodlands, and of course, Scully doing an autopsy. The X-Files Season 11Īlthough the revival seasons are a long way from the show at its best, season 11 would be ranked higher if it weren’t for the first and last episodes. ![]() Worst episode: “The Truth” – We wish we could say this was the worst of the various options for The X-Files series finale, but then there’s season 11… 11. Unfortunately this includes the then-series finale.īest episode: “John Doe” – Monica Reyes is an underrated character and “Audrey Pauley” is a nicely mysterious hour for her, but ultimately John Doggett is the more interesting and more likeable late-run Agent, and his experience with a memory vampire allows the show to experiment in fun ways with location and style. Meanwhile, the rest of the myth-arc episodes from this season suffer from the same problem as all late-season myth-arc episodes, which is that they are horribly convoluted and not much of it makes sense any more. That episode, a stealth finale to the cancelled spin-off The Lone Gunmen which killed off the titular characters, has been a stone around the neck of the revival, which keeps trying to find ways to bring them back. When you literally call an episode “Jump the Shark,” you know you’re in trouble. The appearance of Einstein and Miller as younger versions of Mulder and Scully is just bizarre, and not in a good way. ![]() Worst episode: “Babylon” – Very odd tonally. Best episode: “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster” – While not quite as strong as Darin Morgan’s Season 11 episode, this is a fun hour with great guest performances from Rhys Darby and Kumail Nanjiani. ![]()
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