Tag Archives: 201 Days of The X-Files

‘Dreamland’ wraps up its Freaky Friday-influenced body switching plot lines with an equally humorous but puzzlingly banal episode. Best to put this one behind us.

In the silly, pointless ‘Dreamland,’ David Duchovny switches bodies with Michael McKean. As a result, someone has a lot of sex. The other one? Not so much.

Chris Carter shows off his directorial prowess in ‘Triangle,’ an episode that works on multiple levels and becomes one of the show’s more discussed outings.

Bryan Cranston and Vince Gilligan are paired together for the first time in ‘Drive,’ a hyperkinetic episode that captures the best of the series.

‘The X-Files’ undergoes something of a reboot in ‘The Beginning,’ an episode that marks many firsts and shifts in the execution of the series.

‘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.

Superstar writer Vince Gilligan evolves the themes of a famous Twilight Zone’s into an engrossing and genuinely unnerving surprise in ‘Folie à Deux.’

Mulder goes undercover within a dangerous anti-government faction possessing a deadly biotoxin capable of melting flesh in ‘The Pine Bluff Variant.’

‘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.’

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.’