Aside from Ginger Snaps and An American Werewolf in London, most attempts are as depressing as this episode.ġ76. I’m not sure why it’s so hard for anyone to craft a good werewolf story. It’s also boring, cheaply made, invokes the Challenger disaster, and is reportedly Chris Carter’s least-favorite episode. This episode about an astronaut possibly possessed by an extraterrestrial spirit isn’t just bad. I repeat, this is an episode about KILLER TREES.
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Also, you’ve got David Duchovny back for the series finale in four episodes - you don’t get to kill off the Lone Gunmen in an episode without Mulder.Ī girl’s abuse at the hands of her father leads her to the ability to control trees.
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And an episode about shark cartilage and a lame “let’s kill ourselves to save a conference room full of people” episode is beyond rude. It’s The X-Files, and to kill off three important characters like that on a show where none of the main characters ever die means it should be a big fucking deal.
Upon rewatch, I actually find the episode pretty amusing and watchable for a random episode of The Lone Gunmen. When it first aired, I resented killing off the Lone Gunmen as some sort of misguided “screw you” to Fox for canceling the spinoff series. I’ve softened on this episode over the years. Actually, that’d probably just be a regular episode of Freakylinks.ġ80. Mulder and Scully go into a virtual-reality world, and it’s just as late-’90s/early-’00s as it sounds. Unfortunately, their second episode is a goddamn mess. “First Person Shooter” (Season 7, Episode 13)Ĭyberpunk heroes William Gibson and Tom Maddock wrote two episodes over the course of the series, which is very awesome in theory. Kathy Griffin’s attempt to pull off the role of two twins (the product of a sperm-bank donor to two different women) is probably the scariest thing to ever appear on The X-Files.ġ81. Every episode feels like one meta joke after the other, until it all collapses on itself in one of the worst hours of television you’ll ever experience. Season 7 is the series’ most self-referential season. * There were 202 episodes of The X-Files, but for the purposes of this list, I considered two-part episodes a single entry. The rebooted X-Files premieres as a six-part mini-series starting January 24 on Fox.
Since every episode is available on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, you, too, can revisit the series and decide for yourself. That said, it’s best to be forewarned that while the post-Mulder episodes of the series aren’t spectacular pieces of television, I find season eight incredibly underrated (and miles better than season seven, where David Duchovny seems as bored as all of us were at that point), and I actually like not only John Doggett, but Monica Reyes, too. There are a lot of episodes of this show, so try your best to wade through through the downright awful ones (or just skip them, where I’ve suggested). These rankings are based on numerous factors: enjoyability, chemistry of the leads, scariness of the monsters, and effectives of the jokes, to name a just few things (obviously technical factors are at play too). The 10 Most Embarrassing X-Files EpisodesĪs a refresher course for the series we all fell in love with, and then slowly fell out of love with in later seasons, only to love once again once nostalgia kicked in, I’ve ranked every episode.
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