With an overnight epidemic, the Cigarette Smoking Man (last seen blown to pieces in the original series finale) going way beyond parody and the alien conspiracy reaching ever-more ridiculous levels, maybe it's best just to forget it all and ask yourself why Mulder doesn't have a password on his laptop. As the main featured character, Gillian Anderson runs through the script with breakneck urgency, seemingly in the belief that if it goes quick enough, no one will notice how implausible and silly the entire thing has got.
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but in full knowledge that the general viewership no longer really cares.Īs the season finale, then My Struggle II takes the series to previously-unreached heights of ludicrousy. The mini season then has a tough job to do, in that in order to resurrect The X-Files, it requires a conspiracy arc that can reopen the investigation unit. There are also less of them than you may recall, too – not even 80 of the mammoth 201 episodes, or less than 40% of the output. That the "mythology" eventually went round in circles and lacks rewatch value in DVD boxsets is not entirely the fault of the initial format. The X-Files was made to be watched on a week by week basis, and it was the slow drip feed of information about shadowy government practises that gave it its lifeline. While the details of the arc became confused and confusing (bees? Alien invasion of the world in 2012?), it's perhaps forgotten that it was the same mythology that originally made the show so gripping, and that the "monster of the week" episodes were comparatively inessential. There was certainly a point where the conspiracy arc reached beyond its natural lifespan, but with nine years on the air, it required extending to keep the momentum going.
Since the original series ended in 2002, the mythology episodes have gotten a bad rep by reviewers conducting retrospectives.
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