Things Are Getting Strange

Content warning - potential racial insensitivity, discussions centred around lobotomy.

In both episodes!

We're not sure Howard Gordon was really the right person to pen Teliko. Also odd how its similar…

Content Warning for Home - Abuse, incest, infant death are all fundamental aspects of the episode plot.

There are no easy answers for Mulder in Herrenvolk. The conspiracy does shift forward with some …

Wetwired feels a whole lot like a re-do of Blood (from Season 2) with a bit of Ghost in the Shell eye-hacking on top. Not that it is anime-style eye-hacking.

We discuss Mulder's strange inability to e…

Content warning - Animal Death in Quagmire

The first of this week's episodes doesn't involve war in Ba Sing Se. Or Unobtainium on other planets. Instead we get a weird hybrid monster of the week/consp…

We would (quite seriously) love to see James Hong be cast as a CSM equivalent or just be a member of the syndicate in general, but in the likely absence of that, we will take his fantastic turn as th…

Pusher is that rare thing - an episode Nick is unable to find much of a fault with at first.  Blackly comedic and engaging, this cat and mouse encounter between Mulder and the titular Pusher is so go…

Time for a new alien species!

Piper Maru brings us the very sinister, very dangerous Black Oil. Whether the alien in truth or - as Mulder conjectures - a medium for transference, its still damned cool…

...The X-Files also stares back into you!

Aside from a few fun moments (and pre-fame Ryan Reynolds), Syzygy has little to recommend it. Mulder and Scully are out of character and kinda annoying and in…

Wherein Kim is very keen on Bambi Berenbaum's bug talk in War of the Coprophages.

But that's after Revelations which seeks to invert the usual Mulder and Scully dynamic by making Mulder staunchly scep…

...and you too could own a.... lacklustre alien autopsy video.

Nisei starts with what looks an awful lot like an alien autopsy on a train and ends with Mulder leaping onto a completely different train…

Content warning: Both episodes contain depictions and discussions of suicide. The Walk contains child death and Oubliette contains depictions of mental illness. Listener discretion is advised.

And we'…

Content warning for 2Shy - stalking, emotional manipulation of women

We continue the monster of the week portion of Season 3!

The List is a killer ghost plot for whom the supernatural menace is less im…

The X-Files takes a hard left turn back to monster of the week goodness!

Somehow we wound up discussing the sadly never arranged Fire vs D.P.O. face-off which would pit a recovered Cecil L'Ively again…

Look, we like Samantha here. Doesn't feel like Bill Mulder was exactly hugely invested in his daughter based on the implications Paper Clip sets up.

But that's after The Blessing Way which has some gr…

The end of season 2!

Anasazi seems to make clear that CSM is just in a perpetual state of lying. Not entirely sure you could even find out what he wants for breakfast.

We're not completely convinced by…

We're pretty sure people aren't too fond of Soft Light, but really it's a good episode with a great guest star in Tony Shaloub and exposes a whole other depth to the character of X otherwise not even…

The Calusari is absolutely the nastiest episode to date but loses points because real life Calusari dance a lot more than the store-bought exorcists in this episode. Outside of Samantha, has The X-Fi…

Død Kalm cannot really escape how it feels - an episode written to make use of a set. The set in question being the ship the production crew hired for Colony and End Game. Also it feels very much lik…

Turns out you just can't trust aliens. Whether its multiple clones of your sister or the bounty hunter who can look like anyone. Everyone likes to insist Samantha is fine but they either have a veste…

While just blurting out "He's a ghost" at the start of The Sixth Sense would have somewhat undermined the final twist, its not at all clear why one character in Fresh Bones is unable to make a fairly…