Things Are Getting Strange

Content warning for Irresistible - implied necrophilia
Content warning for Die Hand, Die Verletzt - mentions of rape, child abuse, death of infants

Aside from some odd depictions in the cold open, Irre…

Content warning for Excelsis Dei and Aubrey - mentions of sexual assault.

We weren't looking forward to revisiting Excelsis Dei and were not surprised by the experience of re-watching it. The base sub…

Content warning for Red Museum - mentions of sexual assault.

Scully's going back into the field in the next two episodes of The X-Files season 2.

It is... not easy to talk about Firewalker without freq…

Season 2 of The X-Files continues...

Content warning - 3 involves descriptions of abuse and this comes up in our discussion.

We've had werewolves so far, how about some vampires? Assuming you don't sub…

Season 2 of The X-Files reaches the first two part episode!

Duane Barry is an excellently tense, hostage negotiation episode with a guest star who's trustworthiness wanes as the episode goes on only f…

Season 2 of The X-Files continues!

Blood sees the welcome return of the Lone Gunmen and the first writing credit for Darin Morgan. We discuss how the novelisation makes a lot of aspects clearer and ca…

Season 2 of The X-Files begins a whole new era for the series.

Little Green Men is perhaps the series's third pilot - a great jumping on point and a great episode all round. Just why do the aliens dan…

Episodes 24 of The X-Files season 1 asks a lot of questions - and while Fox might once have worried audiences would conclude the series was  over - for season 2 to pick up.

The Erlenmeyer Flask finall…

Episodes 22 & 23 of The X-Files season 1 really do show the variances of the series.

Born Again's major revelation is that Scully gets a front-row seat to some supernatural happenings. Which... she pr…

Episodes 20 & 21 of The X-Files season 1 are both excellent!

Darkness Falls is a wholesale tribute to Ice (or possibly Chris Carter deciding he could also do a bottle episode with paranoia and in-figh…

Episodes 18 & 19 of The X-Files season 1 seem to continue the series's struggle to find its own identity.

Miracle Man has been described elsewhere as something you'd expect in Murder She Wrote - which…

Episodes 16 & 17 of The X-Files season 1 continue an uneven run.

Young At Heart should be a good monster of the week episode with a man with a salamander hand! But somehow that never really factors in…

Episodes 14 & 15 of The X-Files season 1 could not be more different!

Gender Bender has us discussing how aliens don't appear to have previously had any anthropological interest in humanity. What the …

Episodes 12 & 13 of The X-Files season 1 offer quite the contrast of tones for the series.

Fire was for some reason once seen as particularly frightening, but we both had a grand time re-watching this…

We both enjoyed episodes 10 & 11 of The X-Files season 1. Not that we don't have a few observations. Questions. Criticisms...

Fallen Angel offers some sort of Predator-like thrills (just be glad you c…

Episodes 8 & 9 of Season 1; Ice and Space.

For Ice we take a trip to Alaska for the X-Files' version of The Thing complete with paranoia and probable alien life. As Kim notes this is the first time we…

This week we're discussing  episodes 6 & 7 of Season 1; Shadows and Ghost in the Machine. The former is the tale of the kindly boss of a weapons manufacturer and apparent nepotism for one of the secr…

This week we take on episodes 4 and 5 of Season 1. That would be Conduit and Jersey Devil. We ponder how alien spacecraft can be swift, silent things that hang in the air in Deep Throat but will cook…

This week we're talking about episodes 2 and 3 of season 1 of The X-Files - Deep Throat and Squeeze. We also touch on our Halloween decorations, Kim's current headwear and her success with Muldle.app…

Nick and Kim chat about The X-Files' origins and inspirations. We then take a dive into the various elements of the first episode - Pilot.

Finally we have Kim's Conspiracy Corner where she attempts to…