‘The X-Files’ ends its fifth season with ‘The End,’ a good episode that features the return of the Smoking Man and another shuttering of the X-Files.
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X-Files Flashback: ‘Folie à Deux’
Superstar writer Vince Gilligan evolves the themes of a famous Twilight Zone’s into an engrossing and genuinely unnerving surprise in ‘Folie à Deux.’
X-Files Flashback: ‘The Pine Bluff Variant’
Mulder goes undercover within a dangerous anti-government faction possessing a deadly biotoxin capable of melting flesh in ‘The Pine Bluff Variant.’
X-Files Flashback: ‘All Souls’
‘The X-Files’ explores Dana Scully’s struggles between faith and science as well as her lingering guilt over the death of her supposed daughter Emily in ‘All Souls.’
Review: A Killer Cast, Sex, and Murder Don’t Save ‘Wicked City’
ABC ventures into Red Shoe Diaries territory with Wicked City, a late-night serial killer anthology series that more than earns its time slot with risque business.
X-Files Flashback: ‘Mind’s Eye’
Indie star Lili Taylor headlines an understated episode of ‘The X-Files’ in which a blind woman has a psychic link to a serial killer in ‘Mind’s Eye.’
X-Files Flashback: ‘Travelers’
Serving as a flashback episode, ‘Travelers’ takes a unique approach to an X-File by blending both the 50s-era McCarthy hearings with sci-fi horror.
X-Files Flashback: ‘The Red and the Black’
‘The Red and the Black’ concludes a 2-parter with Scully investigating an alien abduction through hypnosis and Mulder struggling to believe.
X-Files Flashback: ‘Patient X’
Veronica Cartwright appears as ‘Patient X’ in the latest mythology episode, a dense, flawed affair that is not completely without its pleasures.
X-Files Flashback: ‘Bad Blood’
Writer Vince Gilligan gets some of his playful mojo back with ‘Bad Blood,’ a vampire episode with an amusing he said/she said subplot running through it.