An X-Files newbie (that's me) goes on a deep dive through the entirety of Chris Carter's vast universe of creepiness...as longtime fans take his hand and walk him through it. We're gonna do it all folks! The whole thing. The original series, the revival, the movies, the spin-offs...
Hell, we might even do the comic books and the video games, why not.
Episode 42: Humbug (in which Michael Anderson doesn't dance, not once!)
Zaki Hasan of The San Francisco Chronicle joins me to discuss a first for The X-Files...COMEDY! Well, not necessarily, but in any case this is the first darkly humorous and deeply strange episode to be written by Darin Morgan, brother of Glen Morgan.
Zaki and I discuss the sociocultural impact of the series as a whole and try to place it in a modern context, before diving into the ins and outs of this episode, which is basically a whodunit that is rather easy to figure out... Though it doesn't really matter because you're really here for the compassionate sideshow spectacle that features actors playing people with deformities or enhancements, as well as actual people with these characteristics - such as 90s alternative superstars Jim Rose and The Enigma...as themselves...kind of.
Anyway, it's a cool episode and it yielded a fun discussion.
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4 May 2021
Episode 41: Død Kalm (no, I don't know how to pronounce that and neither do you)
Natalia Castro sits down with me to discuss this episode, which has a great concept and a great guest star in John Savage and yet... It doesn't really do it for us.
Maybe the concept is too far fetched? It's weird to say that about a sci-fi show, but in a spirited discussion Natalia and I go into why that is. Why is it that X-Files can't really pull off out there concepts such as this, which are so commonplace in, say, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Make-up is also not really up to snuff is it?
Anyway, good talk.
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7 Apr 2021
Episode 40: Fearful Symmetry (even The Last Starfighter can't save these animals)
Friend of the podcast Jared Kilbourne sits down with me to discuss a weird episode written by Steve De Jarnatt and guest starring Lance Guest.
It's clear there was a lot on the minds of De Jarnatt and the showrunners, but it may not be clear to us, the viewers, exactly what that is. Well... The "message" is certainly clear. "Let's stop treating our animals like shit." But that message is presented at the expense of a coherent or particularly engaging story.
Oh well... You can't win 'em all. But Jared and I still had a nice talk.
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