The Scully-goes-missing bit

Duane Barry/Ascension, 3, One Breath

Gillian Anderson’s pregnancy forced the writers to rebuild late Season One and early Season Two around Mulder/Duchovny, with the happy knock-on effect of forcing them to create a more densely…

4x10: Paper Hearts

documentary as mythological method & vice versa

(I’m posting my backlog of short essays about The X-Files, and will go back to fill in late-S3/early-S4 shortly.)

3x04: Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose

‘…how do I die?’ ‘You don’t.’

The smile on Bruckman’s face as he delivers that good news to Scully has been, for me, one of the emotional high points of the show. And the look on Scully’s face when she finds Bruckman in bed at the last, his…

3x13: Syzygy

a ‘Very Special Episode’ episode

Oh…comedy. Here we have a farcical version of Carrie/The Craft/’Gingerbread’ from Buffy (several years before that episode was written…spoooooky!!), with two magical teenage girls doing some killing and Mulder and Scully…

3x15: Piper Maru & 3:16 Apocrypha

(written Feb 2015 after watching True Detective S1, alas for Piper Maru and Apocrypha)

3x15: Piper Maru

Why write one line when you can write five? Why…

2x25: Anasazi

Deep Throat, Deep Time

‘Nothing disappears without a trace.’

If it hasn’t been clear since at least Mulder’s teary missing-Samantha moment in the church in ‘Conduit,’ I hope it’s clear now: Mulder isn’t actually chasing ‘the truth about…

2x01: Little Green Men

A healthily ironic attitude toward oneself is the highest human virtue

Scully has a little private episode of Dexter at the Miami airport, Mulder heads to Arecibo for a little private bottle episode, Skinner acquires…

2x13: Irresistible

This is a first draft and I haven’t even bothered looking at it since feverishly so let’s keep our expectations low, shall we?

‘I’m gonna modem it out to you immediately, see if you can…

Odd Ones, Young and Old

‘Excelsis Dei’ and ‘Die Hand die Verletzt’

I have no witty connecting text for these two, sorry.

2x11: Excelsis Dei

Our first misjudged uptight joke about kink within the…

Tooms, E.B.E., Erlenmeyer Flask

Three steps forward

(Continuing a series of short essays about my first viewing of The X-Files.)

1x21: Tooms

Mulder kills a creepy yellow-eyed liver-eating mutant with an…