There's been a clear divide between Mulder and Scully over the last couple of episodes, made even clearer by the hovering specter that i...

This feels a lot like treading water before the finale, since it doesn't reveal anything of note. While the idea isn't developed, th...

Scully's skepticism has become more contrived over the years, eventually settling in the position of pure denial. Here, Scully witnesses...

Skinner continues to prove he's one of the strongest characters on the show with this Mitch Pileggi-heavy episode. Skinner is a stoolie ...

Comedy works at its finest when there is an undercurrent of tragedy. Eddie Van Blundht, the shapeshifting, once-tailed gentleman at the cent...

While entertaining, Synchrony works better as a series of ideas than as a logical slice of science-fiction. I'm a huge fan of time-trave...

Strangely for an episode in which he barely appeared, and even stranger considering he's not even what you would call a recurring charac...

Even without the inclusion of Max Fenig, this episode is a total throwback to the first season, where the conspiracy episodes weren't aw...

My appreciation for this episode stems from the fact that it's a conspiracy episode rooted in a standalone mystery. It's also welcom...

Kaddish is a slow-burner episode, one which takes a while to get going but once it does proves to be a surprising improvement on similarly p...

The conspiracy episodes are now at a point where they're not merely creating even more problems and conspiracies within existing conspir...

Cancer equals a death sentence. That's what we all presume, anyway. There's the fighting, the therapy, the potential overcoming of s...

One of the issues that is stopping me from completely loving The X-Files is the way the show's two protagonists are written. They'...

I'm always a little ambivalent about X-Files episodes centered on minority groups, since so often the show bathes in stereotypes and cu...

731 , one of season three's various mythology episodes, played around with the idea of the fantastical elements of the series being a va...

It's disappointing that so much of Terma is annoyingly complex and ridiculous, since the whole "alien rock from Mars" idea is ...

I admit that I've reached the point where I'm not ecstatic whenever I realize another conspiracy episode is right around the corner....

This is undoubtedly a strong episode. It's also one that works on a variety of different levels, subverting expectations at repeated jun...

Plastic surgery is intrinsically horrifying. Just the names of the procedures represented here (liposuction, face peel) sound pretty gross. ...

I have always struggled with this episode. I remember watching it years ago and coming away from it tired, unmoved and a little frustrated ...