More Snake Accuracy than Morgan and Wong
- Author
- Nick & Kim
- Published
- Thu 02 Mar 2023
- Episode Link
- None
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, Irresistible is a tremendously creepy yet mundane (in the sense of not being supernatural) episode of Season 2. A creepy and unsettling monster of the week. We make the case of this being a far better follow-up to One Breath than Firewalker ever was and critique Mulder using the case as an excuse to watch a football game.
Die Hand, Die Verletzt is somewhat at odds with Irresistible in how Scully deals with dead bodies in this context, but otherwise Season 2 goes from strength to strength with a story about lapsed Satanists. Blackly comical (premise, the tendency of the satanists to loudly denounce satanism, the tabloid version of satanism depicted a few times) but also quite disturbing with some practical effects.
But we love Mrs. Paddock and Kim absolutely has a more accurate idea of how snakes work than is depicted on-screen.
