Things Are Getting Strange

The inevitable episode where Mulder gets himself committed.

Folie a Deux is a great creepy episode that is almost a black comedy, but remains a fine creature-feature for the tail-end of season 5. Ther…

It feels a lot like All Souls forgets all about the events of Revelations from season 2 - that time it heavily implied Scully was set to be the next Messiah's guardian in some future conflict. Instea…

...as final words instead of a guy shot by a cop blurting out 'Mulder'.

Well, I suppose he had to get involved in this flashback into the 1950s for Travellers somehow. Into a world of red-scares and t…

Patient X asks the question of "What would The X-Files be like if Mulder was an absolute jerk" and reveals that it makes us really want to strangle him in this episode. We get into how odd his charac…

We're heading back to the 80s for some serious cyberpunk action in the first episode this week with Kill Switch! But somewhat disappointed. Invisigoth has a cool name and a cool look, but ultimately …

Content warning - Schizogeny - discussion/depictions of child abuse

Content warning - Chinga - above average violence

Schizogeny often ranks amongst the least favourite of all The X-Files, and its real…

Content warning for Emily - Child death and discussions of sexual assault

While Christmas Carol hinted at some conspiratorial follow-ups, we weren't really prepared for this the latest entrant in the …

Content warning for The Post-Modern Prometheus - discussion of sexual assault
Content warning for Christmas Carol - discussion of suicide

It's The X-Files Christmas special!

Sort of. First off, we have …

The X-Files takes a trip back to 1989 and the formation of the Lone Gunmen. Also plausibly how Mulder's interest in aliens originated too. We talk the big questions. Like who's Kung fu is best and ho…

The answer of how Mulder's dead body can be identified in Gethsemane and this not be David Duchovny leaving the series turns out to involve literal murder. And both Redux and Redux II don't spend muc…

Content warning - depictions and discussions of suicide

Ketamine is a very different substance to whatever Herbert West uses in Re-Animator. But The X-Files seems to quite look how Dr. West's stuff lo…

Content warning for Elegy - depictions of autism

Welcome to the Skinner show! In this week's episode - Zero Sum - Skinner is embroiled in the shadowy cover-up while Mulder is almost one step ahead of …

Content warning for Small Potatoes - discussions of sexual assault

A glimpse of the future! Or at least there was a future for the time-travel episode of The X-Files for the character to arrive back f…

Is this Scully's  worst birthday ever? A surprise rendition of Happy Birthday, an Apollo 11 key-chain, Mulder suggesting a plane crash is due to a UFO and then a visit to the actual crash site to loo…

Content Warning: discussions of anti-semitism

Come to New York! See none of the famous landmarks! I guess Kaddish is set in Queens, but still...

We talk about how one dresses golems (and Umbrella-corpo…

Never Again provokes the unexpected question: did Morgan and Wong really not like returning to The X-Files after Space: Above and Beyond?

Inevitably this episode also sparks some more consideration of…

It was, perhaps, inevitable that The X-Files would do an episode on the chupacabra at one point. Only, El Mundo Gira isn't really about the chupacabra. Its not really a telenovela either - not outrig…

Terma somewhat disappointed after such a strong opener in Tunguska. We're not sure if the writers quite understand how vaccines work (like at all). Nor are we sure how and when and especially how Kry…

The shocking truth about Cancer Man's past and how he killed significant people! Or Cancer Man's thinly veiled autobiography passed off as fiction? You decide with regards to Musings of a Cigarette S…

Content Warnings - themes of abuse against women and children, gore, fear of doctors/medical procedures.

The Field Where I Died is a very polarising episode in the fandom. As such we get into why and …