TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 5 & 6’
With “Part 5” of Twin Peaks: The Return we learn more about the web of terror created by the now incarcerated Mr. C, the...
TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – ‘Part 4’
After the surreal absurdities of “Part 3”, “Part 4” of Twin Peaks: The Return is much more accessible. It’s not without its bizarre set-pieces,...
THE X-FILES – ‘My Struggle II’
While not as distasteful as “Babylon”, the finale of The X-Files’ so-called ‘event series’ was a preposterous mess that bit off more than it...
THE X-FILES – ‘Babylon’
Where to begin? I’ve perhaps been too kind to The X-Files this year, because it was a formative television show for me as a...
THE X-FILES – ‘Home Again’
When I first heard Glen Morgan would be writing an episode entitled “Home Again”, I envisioned an unexpected sequel to infamous season 4 episode...
THE X-FILES – ‘Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster’
Darin Morgan may not be a household name, but he’s a writer every X-Phile knows. The younger brother of writer-producer Glen Morgan, Darin got...
THE X-FILES – ‘My Struggle’ • ‘Founder’s Mutation’
For any millennials reading, it must be hard to appreciate just how much of a phenomenon The X-Files was in the 1990s. Here was...
THE X-FILES (1998) • THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (2008)
He’s the obsessed FBI agent who desperately wants to believe. She’s the cynical FBI agent who wears a cross around her neck and can...
THE X-FILES – Examining the ‘Essential Episodes’
With The X-Files returning next year, over a decade since it closed the door on its cabinet of weirdness in 2002, creator Chris Carter...