Tag Archives: 201 Days of The X-Files

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.

‘The Red and the Black’ concludes a 2-parter with Scully investigating an alien abduction through hypnosis and Mulder struggling to believe.

Veronica Cartwright appears as ‘Patient X’ in the latest mythology episode, a dense, flawed affair that is not completely without its pleasures.

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.

‘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?

Stephen King makes the perfect addition to ‘The X-Files’ with ‘Chinga’ which astutely praises Scully’s greatest qualities and skewers Mulder’s goofiness.

Part ‘Psycho’ and part Poison Ivy, ‘Schizogeny’ is all one thing – a big giant mess.

A rare Vince Gilligan misfire, ‘Kitsunegari’ feels like a rushed and underbaked opportunity to revisit a somewhat beloved ‘X-Files’ character.

Scully and Mulder’s investigation of the mysterious ‘Emily’ continues down dead end after dead end as they race to save her fragile life.

‘Christmas Carol’ parlays Scully’s broken biological clock into a Christmas-set episode as only ‘The X-Files’ can deliver.