Premiering next Monday night, CBS’s Supergirl pilot isn’t the complete disaster many predicted, but it is an overstuffed affair that lives constantly in the shadow her more famous cousin.
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X-Files Flashback: ‘Kill Switch’
‘Kill Switch,’ co-written by the great William Gibson, offers a relatively suspenseful take on artificial intelligence and man versus machine. In the end, though, how scary is a faceless entity?
X-Files Flashback: ‘Chinga’
Stephen King makes the perfect addition to ‘The X-Files’ with ‘Chinga’ which astutely praises Scully’s greatest qualities and skewers Mulder’s goofiness.
X-Files Flashback: ‘Schizogeny’
Part ‘Psycho’ and part Poison Ivy, ‘Schizogeny’ is all one thing – a big giant mess.
X-Files Flashback: ‘Kitsunegari’
A rare Vince Gilligan misfire, ‘Kitsunegari’ feels like a rushed and underbaked opportunity to revisit a somewhat beloved ‘X-Files’ character.
Review: Netflix Streams Oscar-Worthy ‘Beasts’
Straddling the cinema and small screen, Netflix attempts to win an Oscar with its streaming masterpiece ‘Beasts of No Nation.’
X-Files Flashback: ‘Emily’
Scully and Mulder’s investigation of the mysterious ‘Emily’ continues down dead end after dead end as they race to save her fragile life.
X-Files Flashback: ‘Christmas Carol’
‘Christmas Carol’ parlays Scully’s broken biological clock into a Christmas-set episode as only ‘The X-Files’ can deliver.
X-Files Flashback: ‘The Post-Modern Prometheus’
Chris Carter creates an expressionist fantasia with an homage to Frankenstein, comic books, James Whale, and Cher in ‘The Post-Modern Prometheus.’
X-Files Flashback: ‘Detour’
‘The X-Files’ returns to the woods and finds Mother Nature fighting back in ‘Detour,’ an episode that completely echoes/rips off the earlier ‘Darkness Falls.’