For all intents and purposes, this could have been the series finale. It works well as both an enjoyable mythology hour, as well as an earne...

There's a beautiful simplicity to this episode, Vince Gilligan able to maneuver around a potentially destructive idea by casually underm...

Fight Club has one of the strongest, most absurd openings this show has ever done. Immediately we're aware that this is one of those go...

This is one hot mess of an episode. David Duchovny's first trip behind the scenes occurred with last season's The Unnatural , a sent...

Brand X is an episode that probably required a little work. There are a ton of strong ingredients here, but somewhere along the line they k...

This is a little unfairly maligned. It's by no means perfect, and Gillian Anderson's subsequent lack of further behind-the-scenes wo...

Another peek into suburbia for this show, playing around with soapy themes of marital infidelity, middle-aged disappointment, secret love ch...

There's a remarkable simplicity to this story, even if it concerns mythological elements that became tired a long time ago. En Ami is a...

Remember how season one featured constant repetition of bad guys seeking revenge through supernatural means? Theef is a late entry to that t...

Season five's Kill Switch was a gorgeous meditation on identity, cyber-crime and artificial intelligence, something that brilliantly fu...

It's easy to forget during an era of 'found footage' shit-shows that disappoint crowds of moviegoers every couple of months that...

Outside of Paper Hearts , I don't think I was ever hugely invested in the Samantha arc. Then again, I've felt more and more over the...

I've always liked episodes of this show that aren't overtly science-fiction, in which Mulder and Scully investigate mysterious pheno...

If you had never watched The X-Files but thought you had a decent idea of what to expect, Signs and Wonders is probably the hypothetical X...

The X-Files had been on the air for over seven years by this point, so it's not entirely surprising to see the writers lifting ideas fr...

This is another episode about spiritual faith and the sometimes blurry distinction between good and evil. It marks the return of Donnie Pfas...

Rube Goldberg's fascinating Mouse Trap machines provide the groundwork for this episode, all about cause and effect and how the cosmos e...

Super-speed, like flying, always looks pretty terrible on film, regardless of how big the budget is. If there's one thing I should prais...

Millennium is a show that I own on DVD but have never gotten around to watching. I always seem to get to around the middle of its first seas...

The conventions of The X-Files have now become so familiar that it's not surprising the writers have been experimenting with different ...