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The X-Files

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The X-Files (1993-2002 and 2016-2018) is the story of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, two FBI agents investigating the paranormal. The show features stand-alone "freak of the week" episodes, as well as a complex overarching mythology about alien visitation and experimentation and a massive government conspiracy to cover up The Truth. The show was that rarest of breeds: a minor sci-fi cult hit that became a major network success. Starting out in the Friday "death slot" on FOX in 1993, The X-Files flew under the radar for its first season, then suddenly exploded in the ratings in its second season. Its combination of creepy, scary stories and anti-government paranoia – not to mention the great partnership between the leads – captured the imaginations of millions of loyal X-Philes, and eventually earned the show a marquee time slot on Sunday nights at 9:00 p.m., where it stayed until its conclusion in 2002.

Our X-Files reviews began with Jess Lynde, who started the project in May, 2009. She was later joined by ChrisB, drnanamom, Heather, Juliette and Mallena. Reviews of the first nine seasons were finally completed in January 2018. Revival seasons 10 and 11 were reviewed as they aired. And now it's done! (Unless there is a season twelve.)

Season One

1.1 The X-Files
1.2 Deep Throat
1.3 Squeeze
1.4 Conduit
1.5 The Jersey Devil
1.6 Shadows
1.7 Ghost in the Machine
1.8 Ice
1.9 Space
1.10 Fallen Angel
1.11 Eve
1.12 Fire
1.13 Beyond the Sea
1.14 Gender Bender
1.15 Lazarus
1.16 Young at Heart
1.17 E.B.E.
1.18 Miracle Man
1.19 Shapes
1.20 Darkness Falls
1.21 Tooms
1.22 Born Again
1.23 Roland
1.24 The Erlenmeyer Flask

Season Two

2.1 Little Green Men
2.2 The Host
2.3 Blood
2.4 Sleepless
2.5 Duane Barry
2.6 Ascension
2.7 3
2.8 One Breath
2.9 Firewalker
2.10 Red Museum
2.11 Excelsis Dei
2.12 Aubrey
2.13 Irresistible
2.14 Die Hand die Verletzt
2.15 Fresh Bones
2.16 Colony
2.17 End Game
2.18 Fearful Symmetry
2.19 Død Kalm
2.20 Humbug
2.21 The Calusari
2.22 F Emasculata
2.23 Soft Light
2.24 Our Town
2.25 Anasazi

Season Three

3.1 The Blessing Way
3.2 Paper Clip
3.3 DPO
3.4 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
3.5 The List
3.6 2Shy
3.7 The Walk
3.8 Oubliette
3.9 Nisei
3.10 731
3.11 Revelations
3.12 War of the Coprophages
3.13 Syzygy
3.14 Grotesque
3.15 Piper Maru
3.16 Apocrypha
3.17 Pusher
3.18 Teso dos Bichos
3.19 Hell Money
3.20 Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'
3.21 Avatar
3.22 Quagmire
3.23 Wetwired
3.24 Talitha Cumi

Season Four

4.1 Herrenvolk
4.2 Home
4.3 Teliko
4.4 Unruhe
4.5 The Field Where I Died
4.6 Sanguinarium
4.7 Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
4.8 Tunguska
4.9 Terma
4.10 Paper Hearts
4.11 El Mundo Gira
4.12 Leonard Betts
4.13 Never Again
4.14 Memento Mori
4.15 Kaddish
4.16 Unrequited
4.17 Tempus Fugit
4.18 Max
4.19 Synchrony
4.20 Small Potatoes
4.21 Zero Sum
4.22 Elegy
4.23 Demons
4.24 Gethsemane

Season Five

5.1 Redux
5.2 Redux II
5.3 Unusual Suspects
5.4 Detour
5.5 Post-Modern Prometheus
5.6 Christmas Carol
5.7 Emily
5.8 Kitsunegari
5.9 Schizogeny
5.10 Chinga
5.11 Kill Switch
5.12 Bad Blood
5.13 Patient X
5.14 The Red and the Black
5.15 Travelers
5.16 Mind's Eye
5.17 All Souls
5.18 The Pine Bluff Variant
5.19 Folie a Deux
5.20 The End

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Season Six

6.1 The Beginning
6.2 Drive
6.3 Triangle
6.4 Dreamland
6.5 Dreamland II
6.6 How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
6.7 Terms of Endearment
6.8 The Rain King
6.9 S.R. 819
6.10 Tithonus
6.11 Two Fathers
6.12 One Son
6.13 Agua Mala
6.14 Monday
6.15 Arcadia
6.16 Alpha
6.17 Trevor
6.18 Milagro
6.19 The Unnatural
6.20 Three of a Kind
6.21 Field Trip
6.22 Biogenesis

Season Seven

7.1 The Sixth Extinction
7.2 The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
7.3 Hungry
7.4 Millennium
7.5 Rush
7.6 The Goldberg Variation
7.7 Orison
7.8 The Amazing Maleeni
7.9 Signs & Wonders
7.10 Sein und Zeit
7.11 Closure
7.12 X-Cops
7.13 First Person Shooter
7.14 Theef
7.15 En Ami
7.16 Chimera
7.17 all things
7.18 Brand X
7.19 Hollywood AD
7.20 Fight Club
7.21 Je Souhaite
7.22 Requiem

Season Eight

8.1 Within
8.2 Without
8.3 Patience
8.4 Roadrunners
8.5 Invocation
8.6 Redrum
8.7 Via Negativa
8.8 Surekill
8.9 Salvage
8.10 Badlaa
8.11 The Gift
8.12 Medusa
8.13 Per Manum
8.14 This is Not Happening
8.15 Deadalive
8.16 Three Words
8.17 Empedocles
8.18 Vienen
8.19 Alone
8.20 Essence
8.21 Existence

Season Nine

9.1 Nothing Important Happened Today
9.2 Nothing Important Happened Today II
9.3 Dæmonicus
9.4 4-D
9.5 Lord of the Flies
9.6 Trust No 1
9.7 John Doe
9.8 Hellbound
9.9 Provenance
9.10 Providence
9.11 Audrey Pauley
9.12 Underneath
9.13 Improbable
9.14 Scary Monsters
9.15 Jump the Shark
9.16 William
9.17 Release
9.18 Sunshine Days
9.19 The Truth, Parts I and II

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Season Ten (2016)

10.1 My Struggle
10.2 Founder's Mutation
10.3 Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster
10.4 Home Again
10.5 Babylon
10.6 My Struggle II

Season Eleven (2018)

11.1 My Struggle III
11.2 This
11.3 Plus One
11.4 The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
11.5 Ghouli
11.6 Kitten
11.7 Rm9sbG93ZXJz
11.8 Familiar
11.9 Nothing Lasts Forever
11.10 My Struggle IV

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Cast

Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully)
David Duchovny (Fox Mulder)
Mitch Pileggi (Walter Skinner)
Robert Patrick (John Doggett)
Tom Braidwood (Melvin Frohike)
William B. Davis (CGB Spender)
Bruce Harwood (John Fitzgerald Byers)
Dean Haglund (Richard 'Ringo' Langly)
Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek)
Annabeth Gish (Monica Reyes)