Season three's finale returns to the convoluted and shamelessly confused Colony / End Game two-parter, with emphasis once again placed ...

Thematically, this isn't dissimilar to last season's Blood , another exercise in technology sending innocent people crazy. But whil...

The best Darin Morgan episode not written by Darin Morgan, Quagmire is just a hell of a lot of fun. From the cool fishing-community locale t...

It's reflective of how far the show has come in three years that it has the confidence to hand over an episode to a supporting character...

Everybody knows the stock characteristics of an alien abduction. You've got the short little aliens with the enormous heads and giant ey...

I remember disliking this episode a lot when I first watched it years ago, so I was surprised that it turned out to be pretty good second ti...

Hahahahahahahah. Lord, this episode was stupid. Not since season one has there been an hour so lacking in anything resembling The X-Files a...

Based on Pusher and his first scripted effort Soft Light last season, it's clear Vince Gilligan is an "ideas man", creating ...

While it improved on Piper Maru , a lot of Apocrypha towed the company line: minor revelations, convoluted attempts to tell a simple story, ...

It's always difficult reviewing the first part of a two-part episode, especially when it's pretty clear that everything that happens...

I remember that as a kid, back in the dark ages of the 1990's, that I actually read the novelization of this episode before I saw the ep...

I always wonder what happens to the creator/executive producer of a show when a writer suddenly appears and entirely exploits the potential ...

Darin Morgan's third episode lacks the warmth of Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose , but damn if it isn't a comedic tour-de-force. C...

This episode is all over the place, but the weight of its ideas mostly overcomes the shallow mystery Mulder and Scully find themselves inves...

This was another episode where my enjoyment was hampered by my knowledge of the rest of the series. I was always a casual X-Files viewer, a...

For at least half of the episode, Nisei follows a now typical pattern for the X-Files conspiracy episodes. Mulder discovers some improbable ...

Oubliette is an episode that I remember vividly from my childhood. Maybe it was the kid getting abducted from her bedroom, or the creepy cla...

There are some interesting attempts at exploring real-life disturbances through this episode, first with the government's treatment of w...

This show really likes goo, am I right? Thinking about it, I wouldn't be surprised if the entire episode came about after a big tub of g...

This is the kind of episode that The X-Files can do in its sleep. All of the themes displayed here; "revenge from beyond the grave...