Oh well, I’m sure that guy isn’t in any way important to the overarching mythology of this show! Moving on!īlevins is all “Have you ever heard of an agent named Fox Mulder?” And Scully is all, “That’s not a real fucking name, right?” and Blevins is all, “Yeah, totes real, also he’s like obsessed with aliens and shit? And you, a scientist, are now his partner.” And Scully is like, “Dude, I don’t believe in aliens and this isn’t April Fool’s Day so, like, I think there has been a mistake?” And Blevins is all, “Nah, we’re serious. Scully meets Blevins and a dude who cannot stop chain smoking cigarettes. I lived through the 90s…did we all look like this? Could we not match colors back then? The only saving grace is that Gillian Anderson is so beautiful that she’d look amazing even wearing, well, THAT. Like, those pants are far to big for her, they don’t even kind of match the jacket, and those shoes look like they’ve been stolen from a witch who believes she can only connect with her powers by wearing shoes that give her one giant foot blister. These early seasons were so very unkind to Scully when it comes to fashion. Speaking of our heroes – Special Agent Dana Scully is on her way to a meeting with Section Chief Blevins to learn of her new assignment. In fact, it, whatever IT is, never fucking stops happening until our heroes swoop in to “Mulder, it’s me”/ “SCUUUULLLLLLAAAAYYYYY!!!!” all over the god damn place.
(Seriously – why are there so many? Is the number of redheads in this show higher than the number of redheads that two actual FBI agents would encounter over the course of seven years? What does it mean? Is it…a CONSPIRACY? :cue X-Files theme:)Ī completely hapless cop who is the first of many hapless cops calls out to the detective that IDs the dead girl as Karen Swenson – “It’s happening again, isn’t it?” Oh, Hapless Cop! Let us discuss X-Files rule #1 – IT IS ALWAYS HAPPENING AGAIN. RIP, one of the many (many many) redheads in this series. They vanish and – uh oh! – the next morning this chick is capital D dead. She stumbles, falls, and then, there’s a light and a man walking toward her. I am much older now but not much smarter.) We open on a teenage girl in her classic long “I am a Victorian child who will die of consumption in two years” nightgown. Now I understand that this could mean literally anything but back then, this shit was REAL. Instead, we start with the show’s title card and then another card informing us that the following story is inspired by actual events. This episode does not start with the classic theme music that became a cultural touchstone during the show’s run.
#Ign x files home again tv
What I can say is that even back then I recognized that the Pilot episode of the show was one of the finest episodes of TV ever put to film.
I don’t know if I can pinpoint what I loved about the show back then – Mulder being so devastatingly handsome? Scully being smart and kick ass and awesome? The idea that we aren’t alone in this vast universe? That it was the early ’90s, I was 13, and The X-Files represented the limitless potential of Life with a capital L? I can’t say. And god damn did did I fucking love the shit out of The X-Files. For now, let’s just award it exactly one yike. We have 201 episodes (and two full-length movies!) to get into it. She, like a lot of people, was immediately hooked. There are aliens and shadowy government conspiracies* and two super attractive FBI agents out to expose it all to the naive citizens of America. An overly tall chubby girl child sits on the floor in front of her TV watching a new TV show premier on the FOX network.
Picture it: Colorado, September 10, 1993. I am going to review every single episode (and all feature-length movies!) of this show.
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