Mulder and Scully sometimes get help from a government insider called “Deep Throat”, although he seems to have nothing to with Watergate or porn. The most intriguing mystery, though, is Mulder’s hair, which seems to get taller every time I look at it. “Just because I can’t explain it, doesn’t mean they’re UFOs,” says one, before Mulder reminds them that’s exactly what the term “UFO” means. The plot? That ranges from the aforementioned pilot to strange lights above a military base. All you need is Screech from Saved by the Bell to turn up and this would be the most 90s TV show ever made. “That’s the 64,000 dollar question,” replies Mulder. “Why would the US air force kidnap its own pilot?” asks Scully. The Pentagon has its own Indiana Jones-sized warehouse to store alien artefacts, ruled over by a creepy, cigarette smoking man. Mulder and Scully are two FBI agents who investigate aliens. Is there going to be a suspicious fire every episode? Hey, it’s almost like some kind of government conspiracy, you guys. It’s apparent immediately that Duchovny and Anderson have excellent chemistry together, even if Mulder and Scully’s methods involve little more than shining around powerful torches in forests and spray-painting a giant “X” on the road when weird stuff goes down.īy the end of the episode, they’ve amassed some pretty convincing evidence of paranormal activity – but it all gets burned down. So far, this all seems pretty straight forward. Their first case together involves some possible abductions, a suspicious local community and a guy who’s comatose and couldn’t possibly have anything to do it, therefore making him the number one suspect. Pilot (Season 1, Episode 1)Ĭhris Carter’s sci-fi gets off to exactly the start you’d expect, with Agent Dana Scully assigned to work with Agent Fox “Spooky” Mulder, who has a reputation for being weirdly obsessed with aliens (because his sister, Samantha, disappeared when he was 12) – just the kind of quality you look for in a co-worker. Is that enough to understand the show? And what more can I discover from just 21 hours of a series that spanned almost a decade?įrom what I learned in each episode to whether they’re worth watching in the first place, this is a first-timer’s guide to The X-Files, written by an actual first-timer. I went in knowing one thing: The X-Files is about two FBI agents, Mulder and Scully. Because someone out there has got to help all of us X-Files newcomers. Is it really possible to just watch those 21 episodes and make sense of the whole show in time for the new series? I put the theory to the test. I ended up with a list of 21 out of a total 202 episodes – a sort of top 10 per cent of The X-Files, if you will. Now, though, like many people who missed out on David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson’s heyday, I’ve been asking myself the same question ahead of the new series: do I need to have seen the old X-Files before I see the new X-Files? And, if so, which episodes should I watch?Īnd so I went crawling back to my friends, the ones who had all seen The X-Files, and asked which episodes were the essential ones to watch. It didn’t seem to matter that all I knew of The X-Files I had basically gleaned from The Simpsons. But it’s 2016 and, well, I was busy in the 1990s. It would be understandable if this were 1996, when the show was at its peak – a time when Twitter didn’t exist, so there was no online place to share our excitement about strange monsters and David Duchovny’s facial expression. The shock would continue for several minutes. “What do you mean, you haven’t seen The X-Files?” That’s what everyone I know has been saying to me since Fox announced it was bringing back its sci-fi series for a limited six-episode run.
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