This episode is basically this but not kidding.
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“This is what we heroes call the denouement. That’s French for when we finish off the super-villains.”
Mulder hanging out with the ghost children is really very touching.
Oh man, if Mulder and Scully fought Santa. How great would that be?
This is what I want out of mid-tier X-Files: lots of atmosphere, a nonsensical plot, and a scene where a woman gives birth to a whole bunch of snakes.
I love TV shows and movies where they just let people with a weird skill do their thing, as X-Files does with the real-life sideshow performers in “Humbug” and the real-life stage magicians in this episode. Also I like magicians.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Maybe the X-Files goes to the trepanning well one too many times, but I’d rather have too much trepanning in my horror than not enough trepanning.
Willie Garson, who plays Weems, was previously the janitor in The Walk, a rare case of character-actor recycling for The X-Files. I like this episode, but I could have gone for even more improbable Rube Goldbergian strings of cause and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is one of those episodes that just kind of hangs there, although I’m always a sucker for a Jacob’s Ladder/Tool video shaky-head effect. One of the teens calls Scully a former Betty, a piece of slang I only ever[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I watched this right after watching the Woodstock ’99 documentary on Netflix, and man, 1999 was a wild year. We collectively had no idea what we were doing. But Mulder and Scully kissed!
