The final episode of Season 1 was in full force–tapping right into the government conspiracy, evidence of aliens, paranoia, and crazy things happening. Great!
It began with some tension between Deep Throat giving Mulder vague hints about things, and Scully not wanting to rely on these hunches. Mulder was trapped between the two. [...]

So, say you’re a brilliant rocket scientist. You die in a horrible car wreck. But because you’re a mad-scientist-type, you freeze your brain, so it can be brought back to life in the future when technology allows! But until that time, you’re worried, all your brilliant work remains incomplete! What do [...]

There was something out-of-sorts about “Born Again,” I cannot quite place it.  It was about a dead cop who was reincarnated in a little girl who was killing his crooked cop partners.  That’s paranormal, I guess, but the feel of the story was that it was almost a real regular investigation.  There was a lot [...]

“Tooms” is part 2 of “Squeeze,” the third episode of the series. That episode tracked a mutant man who could squeeze into tight spaces, and killed 5 people every 30 years to eat their livers. It was a great first “monster” episode. Part 2 was also quite interesting, and pretty well-written. [...]

“Darkness Falls” taps into The X-Files season 1 formula, as an apparent writing exercise to see if they could make trees scary. I think this was about the 3rd episode in a row to begin with Mulder showing Scully a case, and explaining that he had to pull some strings to get to go [...]

The ending of season one appears to have been filled with an unsureness about whether the show would return. Thus, they filled it up with monster episodes. And not, as early on in the season, typical X-Files monster episodes: gruesome happenings lead to a monster trying to survive, then it is stopped, but [...]

This episode was not particularly scary or creepy or paranoid or anything, but it totally wigged me out anyway. I’m not sure why. It was fairly well-written, twisting the bad guys into good guys and back and forth and back again.
Right in the beginning, Scully says “I know it’s not an [...]

This was so far the highpoint of the Mythology episodes. As a standalone story, it was kind of blah. Mulder and Scully were after some truck, and follow it across the country to get it. Mulder believes it has some alien craft in it. It also had something to do with [...]

Some of these “monster” episodes are starting to feel kind of cliched. They’re hardly extremely original. This one, though, had a little twist of government conspiracy tossed in very briefly which made it feel like it was part of The X-Files. The oddest part though–besides the man who had his aging process [...]

This overly-dramatically-titled episode is about Scully’s ex-partner/ex-boyfriend who gets shot in a bank robbery. The bank robber also gets shot, and they both die. But the robber comes back to life in Scully’s ex’s body. That’s about it. The best part of the episode was that it was it was much [...]