“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 [...]

The first “episode” of Twin Peaks was actually a 90-minute TV movie-type thing. It was not nearly as odd as I was expecting, but I assume it was just hinting at things to come.
The death of Laura Palmer is of course what triggers the story. Her body washes up on a [...]

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 [...]