watching the episode where skinner is accused of killing a call girl.
― ian, Friday, 24 October 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah that's the one where he's being protected by his guardian angel/succubus. Also we find out he has an estranged wife (who iirc we never hear about again).
― LB-426 (latebloomer), Friday, 24 October 2014 03:52 (nine years ago) link
is that the same one where he's all covered in blood or a rash or whatever?
― j., Friday, 24 October 2014 03:53 (nine years ago) link
http://deadline.com/2015/01/x-files-reboot-talks-fox-1201352465/
― StanM, Sunday, 18 January 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link
And boom.
http://www.hitfix.com/the-fien-print/no-conspiracy-fox-resurrects-the-x-files-for-6-episode-run
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
awesome! hope they can swing darin morgan to write one of 'em.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yzwiZqr.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 4 April 2015 12:18 (nine years ago) link
Some more info:
http://tvline.com/2015/04/28/the-x-files-spoilers-fox-revival-chris-carter-mulder-scully-sex/
Per io9's summary as well: "Glen Morgan and James Wong will return to write and direct an episode each. Morgan will also executive produce."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
best URL ever
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
There’s “a big chance” the Lone Gunmen will join returning X-vets Mulder, Scully, Skinner and The Smoking Man.
I guess they're going to act like the T-1000 seasons were just a dream
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
They're apparently going to act like The Lone Gunmen's series was a dream, too.
btw, Netflix has X-Files season one in HD and full-frame, and it looks like they shot it full frame. It doesn't look half bad!
― ultimate american sock (mh), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2015/jun/15/gillian-anderson-self-portrait-difficult-for-me-in-relationship-where-man-boss-video?CMP=share_btn_tw
i didn't realize she has been going around doing a posh accent off set since she set up in the uk
― j., Monday, 15 June 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
Soon after her birth, her family moved to Puerto Rico for 15 months, then to England, where she lived until she was 11 years old. She lived for five years in London's Crouch End and 15 months in London's Stroud Green,[7] so that her father could attend the London Film School. She was a pupil of Coleridge Primary School.When Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan.[8] She attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities, graduating in 1986.[7] She is bidialectal. With her English accent and background, she was mocked and felt out of place in the American Midwest and soon adopted a Midwestern accent. To this day, her accent depends on her location
When Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan.[8] She attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities, graduating in 1986.[7] She is bidialectal. With her English accent and background, she was mocked and felt out of place in the American Midwest and soon adopted a Midwestern accent. To this day, her accent depends on her location
― Number None, Monday, 15 June 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
code switching!
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 15 June 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
this only makes her hotter</lone-gunmen-voice>
― j., Monday, 15 June 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
it's a little-known fact that half of the lone gunmen were from new zealand
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 15 June 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
one and a half of them?!
― j., Monday, 15 June 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
no, all three of them were kiwi from the waist down
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 15 June 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.xfilesnews.com/news/latest-news/783-exclusive-more-casting-news-for-xfilesrevival
reyes in too
― j., Wednesday, 12 August 2015 00:47 (eight years ago) link
Dean Haglund moved five mins walk away from me recently, and thus announced to 30 people in a cabaret bar in Marrickville that the Lone Gunmen are going to be in the new show.
interlocutor: [inaudible question about them being dead]
"Ah! Shows you haven't been reading the Season 10 comic book from IDW, co-written by Chris Carter"
different interlocutor: "but is that really canon?"
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 01:28 (eight years ago) link
apparently it's more canonical than the Lone Gunmen tv show!
rip you horrible lost classic of cheesy tv
― Upright Mammal (mh), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
Kumail Nanjiani has a small role. He talks a little about it on this week's X-Files Files podcast
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 14:13 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1K0e2Juvf0
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link
First minute of the new episode: http://doyoustillbelieve.com/
I felt right at home with the monologue
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 11:34 (eight years ago) link
Anyone watch the first two episodes? First one seemed pretty bad. I dunno. Watching on my phone, holding baby on lap.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:49 (eight years ago) link
we've been posting about it over here: Oh look the last ever episode of the X-Files is on!
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 01:50 (eight years ago) link
Going through the entire library at the moment, (thanks free Prime trial!)
Up to season 6 currently.
Generally gotten bored of the extra terrestrial story too, started to prefer the stand alone eps now.
Really enjoyed the Peter Boyle episode, that's my S choice so far
D's though, there are so many I haven't decide yet.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Sunday, 17 April 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
X-Files is probably the most mediocre (on average) show that I'm genuinely fond of. The highs are great but so much of the rest is just not good.
― I Pith On Your Quip (Old Lunch), Sunday, 17 April 2016 14:22 (eight years ago) link
I have always preferred the standalone monster of the week episodes, that's the x files for me
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 17 April 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
A certain distance into the run f the show every episode felt like fan fiction
And especially the latest season
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Sunday, 17 April 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
I love how the motw episodes sometimes completely contradict anything that might be happening with the 'real' story.
The genie episode for instance, just lol
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Sunday, 17 April 2016 23:06 (eight years ago) link
I'm slowly working through the series on Netflix from the start. Being a fan of the series, I'm really surprised how few of the early episodes I have seen. 'Blood' with William Sanderson was a really great one that I don't remember seeing.
Mark Snow's music is really great, even though I think a ton of people knicked his style later on. I think the stripped down version of the title theme is much better than the later more ornamental version.
― earlnash, Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:12 (eight years ago) link
Blood was the first episode with Darin Morgan involvement.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:43 (eight years ago) link
also helped by William Sanderson being awesome
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 9 June 2016 14:27 (eight years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/arts/television/the-x-files-in-a-familiar-groove-review.html
this makes me happy:
In the five episodes of the new season made available to critics, the winner is the fourth, “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat.” It was written and directed by Darin Morgan, who also provided the best hour of the show’s revival season in 2016, “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster,” and authored celebrated old-school episodes like “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” and “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’” back in the 1990s.
“Forehead Sweat” guest-stars Brian Huskey (“People of Earth”) as either a madman or a fellow F.B.I. agent from an alternate dimension who is intimately familiar with the show’s heroes, the alien-chasing feds Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). Mr. Morgan uses this premise to provide the ultimate in fan service — constructing an elaborate meta-story that recapitulates the history of the series, with a cracked version of “The Twilight Zone” as a framing device, and wallows in specific references to past “X-Files” installments (including “Clyde Bruckman’s”).
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 18:49 (six years ago) link
DELITE
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
honestly I might only watch the Morgan episode this time out
― Simon H., Wednesday, 3 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
I am surprised beyond words to learn that the Morgan episode is the standout. Please stop with all the surprises.
Geez, Hollywood, just give the guy his own show or something already. It's only a couple decades past due.
― Bobby Buttrock (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
Wtf is going on
― akm, Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
Wasn’t the virus released at the end of last season? Am I misremembering?
― akm, Thursday, 4 January 2018 04:56 (six years ago) link
Mulder driving and narrating like he’s Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun movies, CSM was the dad all along, new conspiracy leader guy looks like budget Steve Bannon, Scully falls a lot, something about magic alien cum and Skinner, Annabeth Gish, Barbara Hershey?
― The Spilling of a Sacred Beer (latebloomer), Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:06 (six years ago) link
the x-files, at least for this episodes, is all about driving around recklessly in cars and bumping your head hard enough to retcon the bad last episode of the previous season
― mh, Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:07 (six years ago) link
🎵We didn’t start the fire🎵
― The Spilling of a Sacred Beer (latebloomer), Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:09 (six years ago) link
Uh, X-post
― The Spilling of a Sacred Beer (latebloomer), Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:10 (six years ago) link
Forgot to mention unconscious Scully communicating in Morse code with her brain scan, lol
And everyone’s favorite character Jeffrey Spender showing up and uh, yeah that’s kinda all he does
Mulder Macgrubering Scully’s would be pillow assassin
I’ll give it this, it wasn’t uneventful!
― The Spilling of a Sacred Beer (latebloomer), Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:18 (six years ago) link
I was hoping the “maybe this all didn’t happen (yet)” would apply to those stupid Scrappy Doo agents, what’s-his-name and Einsteinbut no such luck
― The Spilling of a Sacred Beer (latebloomer), Thursday, 4 January 2018 05:21 (six years ago) link
So wait did the end of last season not happen? What happened in it?
― akm, Thursday, 4 January 2018 06:18 (six years ago) link
This episode apparently retconned the previous episode into a “hasn’t happened yet” alternate/possible future sent as a vision to Scully from she and Mulder’s psychic part-alien son, William. Who is apparently not Mulder’s son but a product of genetic engineering and artificial insemination by CSM (aka Cancer Man, aka CGB Spender, aka Carl Gerhardt Bush, aka Mulder and Mulder’s half-brother Jeffrey Spender’s biological father) using “alien science” either taken from or given to the government by extraterrestrials, who may or may not had plans to colonize the earth, depending on which version of the conspiracy you believe. This all may be a lie or half-truth or a smokescreen or the actual truth.
Pretty straightforward!
― The Spilling of a Sacred Beer (latebloomer), Thursday, 4 January 2018 07:08 (six years ago) link
I skipped the finale eps last year bc they sounded dumb. can I skip this one as well?
― Clay, Thursday, 4 January 2018 07:48 (six years ago) link
skip to your heart’s content, my son.
― The Spilling of a Sacred Beer (latebloomer), Thursday, 4 January 2018 07:56 (six years ago) link