This one was a trip! Mulder, showing no effects of having been shot in the last episode (typical–this first season is mostly just a series of monster movies), happens on a series of murders. The killer appears to be both a man and a woman, and Mulder follows the evidence to an Amish-like [...]

I was just reading, and according to Wiki, this episode is one of the favorites of both Chris Carter and Gillian Anderson. I can see that–it’s really tense, creepy, and is the first to really focus on Scully. However, I think it was a somewhat standard storyline. And that if they wanted [...]

Things in this episode:
1. Fire!  It was about a guy who could create fire, like he is in Heroes or an X-Man or something.
2. Bizarro Mulder: A brilliant British agent/Mulder’s ex-girlfriend showed up investigating the arsons.  This made Scully all eye-rolly, because she keeps flirting with Mulder.
3. Mulder says he has a photographic memory!  Explains [...]

Yes. After the abomination that was “Space,” this episode was my favorite yet. It wasn’t perfect, but it was very gripping TV. After I think 7-8 non-myth episodes in a row, they finally returned to The Myth storyline about Mulder’s search for aliens. Nothing particularly crazy was furthered in the Myth, [...]

Holy cow this was awfulness. I don’t even know where to begin. The story was cool enough–an older astronaut was haunted by a ghost he saw while on a space mission, and now he is possessed by the ghost. And I guess Chris Carter was inspired by that old Face On Mars [...]

I was cramming this disc of X-Files, but will probably take a break now from it for a week or two or so.
“Ice” was a good one. Mulder and Scully go out to Palin Country to look into a scientist’s death. They take a team of 3 other scientists with them. The [...]

Ha, just as I note how the show is dated, they throw an episode about artificial intellegence and a murderous operating system! The show was kind of enjoyable–but it was a weird mix between an X-File and Scooby Doo. Really, it wasn’t an X-File, though it treated the operating system as a ghost [...]

Shadows! Scully thinks they’re chasing shadows, but Mulder thinks they’re chasing a ghost. Some secretary is constantly around mysterious deaths. Turns it out is her boss, a ghost, who is protecting her and cluing everyone in on some sort of business scandal. Nothing much more worth mentioning.
There’s two things I’ve noticed [...]

Chris Carter writes his first non-mythology episode of the series, and it’s not that good really. The monster story never really clicked. Mulder and Scully go to Atlantic City to investigate what appears to be similar to the famous myth of the Jersey Devil. They track some beast-woman who keeps coming out [...]

“Conduit” was an okay story, about a girl being abducted out of her trailer by The Aliens. Mulder was attracted to the case because it was remarkably similar to the story of his sister’s abduction. I think that was pretty much the point behind this episode. They mentioned his sister earlier once, [...]