The X-Files and The Handmaid’s Tale: How We Talk When We Talk About Rape
**Warning for discussion of sexual assault.** It’s rare for a television scene to keep me up at night, or to stay with me beyond its brief flicker on the screen. Twice this past year, though, I’ve found myself More...
The X-Files Newbie Recap: “The End” & The X-Files Movie – “I had you big time.”
(A note, before we begin: there may be changes to these recaps ahead. Please see the end of the post for some details—I’d appreciate your feedback, loyal readers!) A bee interrupted the moment. *The* moment. A More...
The X-Files Newbie Recap: “All Souls,” “The Pine Bluff Variant,” & “Folie à Deux” – “If I’m not back by midnight, feed my fish.”
Scully feels, two episodes with beloved Walter and “you’re my one in five billion”? THIS WEEK IS JUST COPIOUS HURT. All Souls Brace yourself for this one because I have a lot of feelings. I don’t More...
The X-Files Newbie Recap: “Kill Switch,” “Bad Blood,” & “Patient X” – “Anyway, I was drugged.”
How do you solve a problem like following certified masterpiece “Bad Blood”? YOU RESURRECT RATBOY, THAT’S HOW. Peculiar affair with Covarrubias: optional. Kill Switch This is almost certainly More...
The X-Files Newbie Recap: “Redux II,” “Unusual Suspects,” and “Detour” – “That’s what happens. People get to lookin’ around, next thing they know, something eats ’em.”
Scully’s cancer goes into remission, the Lone Gunmen’s origin story is pretty blah and our heroes get lost in the woods during a routine teamwork conference. “Detour” saves this week. Redux More...
The X-Files Newbie Recap: “Small Potatoes,” “Zero Sum,” & “Elegy” – “Did he have a lightsaber?”
NOT THE BEES! There, I said it. Small Potatoes Oh gosh, there’s a shapeshifting rapist in this and it’s really odd and I feel very uncomfortable. One of the victims thinks Luke Skywalker fathered her More...
The X-Files Newbie Recap: “Tempus Fugit,” “Max,” and “Synchrony” – “I just thought it was a cool keychain.”
Pendrell is dead. In related news, so is God, love, hope, and my faith in this world. Here, take some tissues before we go on. Tempus Fugit The return and simultaneous disappearance of one Max Fennig. You may remember More...
In These X-Files Sneak Peeks From Monday’s Finale, Mulder’s Missing – And Scully is ON IT.
This miniseries revival of The X-Files has had its ups and downs for me (most recently downs, though I suspect that was mostly to do with Chris Carter being behind that particular episode–since most of the More...
The X-Files Newbie Recaps: “Kaddish” & “Unrequited”
I write with quivering fingers because my house is Baltic right now. Good job both this week’s episodes are so dark then, hein? Kaddish A rightfully damning depiction of anti-Semitism forms the basis of this More...
The X-Files Newbie Recap: “Leonard Betts,” “Never Again,” & “Memento Mori” – “Pick out something black and sexy, and prepare to do some funky poaching.”
“Mulder, I need to know you’re out there if I am ever to see through this.” As the quest for truth is to Mulder, so Mulder is to Scully. A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of sobs. Leonard More...