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Episode 6 finale by fabio 02/26/2016, 11:12pm PST It's hard to say if this was worse than last week's episode, since writing off mythology entries is a given. In terms of dialog and blah blah blah blah exposition info dump signifying nothing, the finale was worse. In terms of actually trying to tell a story, episode 5 was worse for its utter tone deafness and ineptitude. In the end, even most of the monster of the week episodes were tainted by the terrible waste of time mythology. Carter doesn't realize or care that everyone lost patience for conspiracy nuts after 2001, that everyone is wise to the UFO plot never paying off, and that endless mystery teasing these days only works if the mystery is compelling in the first place. People want to know what the mysterious monster in the woods is or why a 50 year old French broadcast is coming out of a hatch, not why a smoking old man is plotting convoluted plots via cliched rambling exposition. What wasn't ruined by mythology leaking in was ruined by the awful Mulder & Scully replacements they're trying to position in case the show takes off again. The only decent episode was Were Monster by Darin Morgan, which apparently they let him direct as a first time effort. That explains the crazy amateurish direction and blocking, the only downside to the episode. Chris Carter is the fucking George Lucas of TV. There's talk of renewing the show but it can't work as long as he's at the helm, and it's not going to work if they replace Duchovny and Anderson with the two new agents. Agent Einstein (yes, really) is an unfunny version of Nag Scully from Bad Blood, and the fucking guy who played Mulder in the X-files porn parody was better than Agent Miller.

Whelp, I sure sucked by X-files premiere 01/24/2016, 9:13pm PST     Reviews of the episodes so far by fabio 02/05/2016, 8:07am PST     Ep 4: Home Again by fabio 02/08/2016, 11:18pm PST     Ep 5 might just be the one of the worst episodes of the whole series by fabio 02/16/2016, 5:07am PST         I disagree, I thought it was one of the worst episodes in the entire history of NT by television. 02/16/2016, 7:55am PST     Episode 6 finale by fabio 02/26/2016, 11:12pm PST     Jerry, what did you think? NT by fabio 03/18/2016, 9:27pm PDT         Haven't seen it! But I have seen every episode of Madam Secretary. by Jerry Whorebach 03/27/2016, 4:54pm PDT     Stranger Things is the best X-Files monster-of-the-week episode ever. NT by Fullofkittens 07/30/2016, 6:43am PDT