Gregor Samsa Awoke to Find He was a Tele-Marketer

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. There's some Philip K Dick in this episode - as well as a touch of Lovecraft.

We are admittedly in danger of just praising Vince Gilligan all the time, but this is a really good penultimate episode that has nothing to do with the conspiracy.

The End is the end. Or at least was going to be when The X-Files - like Star Trek - shed any mundane ideas about being a TV series and would instead metamorphose into a film series. That came crashing down to Earth pretty fast, but this episode at least seems prepared for all change and soon.

Shame its a bit of a mess and stuff happens and people do things and Nick is still better he was charged fuil-price for one VHS tape of this episode as it was allegedly vital to the film's setup (Spoiler: barely).

Since we've hit the end of a season we do the usual best and worst episodes - along with best villains.

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