Best X Files Episodes Season 8

Gillian lives in the UK, David lives in New York and California, and we do the show in Vancouver. Chris lives up north. So it was just trying to coordinate a time where they all carve out a period to be in Vancouver. RELATEDX Files 7 Tweaks That MUST Be Made in Season 1. Paging Vince Gilligan. Every Episode of The X Files, Ranked From Worst to Best. Photo Illustration Maya Robinson and Photo by 2. Century Fox FilmEverett Collection. Now that the return of The X Files is upon us, its the perfect time to revisit all nine seasons and 2. Fox Mulder and Dana Scully and Walter Skinner and John Doggett and, yes, Monica Reyes. In the 9. 0s, there was no better place to get a dose of conspiracy paranoia and nutty sci fi, not to mention butterflies in your stomach watching David Duchovny and Gillian Andersons tension build. At its heart, the series was about confronting the darkness within ourselves you know, the crippling doubt of the unknown, the fear of whats to come. The seventh season of the American science fiction television series The XFiles commenced airing on the Fox network in the United States on November 7, 1999. Follow Mulder and Scully on 10 of their most emblematic adventures. Photo by Ben Mark HolzbergSyfy. Syfys 12 Monkeys is in an interesting situation. The show has already been renewed for a fourth and final season, but season. It just used aliens and monsters to explore that in a way that decades later, still resonates with viewers. As 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, Ive ranked every episode. 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. 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 Ive suggested. That said, its best to be forewarned that while the post Mulder episodes of the series arent 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. Please dont stop reading. Since every episode is available on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, you, too, can revisit the series and decide for yourself. The rebooted X Files premieres as a six part mini series starting January 2. Fox. There were 2. The X Files, but for the purposes of this list, I considered two part episodes a single entry. This equals 1. 82 entries. Every episode feels like one meta joke after the other, until it all collapses on itself in one of the worst hours of television youll ever experience. Kathy Griffins 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. Directed by Kim Manners. With David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Jim Rose, Wayne Grace. The agents search for a killer in a Florida town inhabited by sideshow performers. Immediately following Mondays Fox executive session at the Television Critics Association. The eighth season of the American science fiction television series The XFiles commenced airing in the United States on November 5, 2000, concluded on May 20, 2001. Best X Files Episodes Season 8' title='Best X Files Episodes Season 8' />Unfortunately, their second episode is a goddamn mess. Mulder and Scully go into a virtual reality world, and its just as late 9. Its like a bad episode of Freakylinks. Actually, thatd probably just be a regular episode of Freakylinks. 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. Upon rewatch, I actually find the episode pretty amusing and watchable for a random episode of The Lone Gunmen. Except this isnt that show. Its 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. And an episode about shark cartilage and a lame lets kill ourselves to save a conference room full of people episode is beyond rude. Also, youve got David Duchovny back for the series finale in four episodes you dont get to kill off the Lone Gunmen in an episode without Mulder. I repeat, this is an episode about KILLER TREES. Its also boring, cheaply made, invokes the Challenger disaster, and is reportedly Chris Carters least favorite episode. Aside from Ginger Snaps and An American Werewolf in London, most attempts are as depressing as this episode. Its a beautiful, heartfelt episode of television, where the emotional punch feels real. However, this two part episodes supposed wrap up to the disappearance of Mulders sister forgoes aliens and government conspiracies to say that she became Rainbow Brite or whatever. Its an incredibly disappointing conclusion to a seven year story that was once engrossing. Youre better off reading about the Jersey Devil myth on Wikipedia. It somehow manages to be more exploitative than an average episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit. Watch Out Cold Online Hulu. Theres nothing redeeming in it, save for the fact that its just bad, not offensive, like some of the worse X Files outings. Season four is a really fantastic season of television its a wonder how a clunker like this got through. Its best not to think about it. This episode feels stitched together from a bunch of far superior X Files episodes, and when it concludes with the innocent mans death, its kind of mean and unsatisfying rather than heartbreaking as it was probably intended to be. Plus, Doggett dealing with a partner whos corrupt should have made for a much better episode than this. Nothing in. This is the other episode written by the iconic cyberpunk duo that also wrote the equally awful First Person Shooter Gibson and Maddox. Never seen that one before. Fortunately, that other vampire episode, Bad Blood, is one of The X Files best. But well get to that soon enough. Its completely embarrassing and nonsensical, but it also manages to be a pretty entertaining hour of television. Its far from good, and the ending, where Scully is horrified that she had to shoot a child the genie in disguise, doesnt feel earned but its not boring, which is one of the worst crimes an X Files episode can commit. If you thought Seinfeld ending with its characters on trial and in jail was bad, you havent seen this episode, where Mulder is put on trial for the murder of a Super Soldier. Which is, in fact, a farce, because obviously Super Soldiers dont die. So instead of answering questions about nine seasons of conspiracy let alone doing something interesting with David Duchovnys sole appearance in the season nine the show basically recaps every mythology episode but pretends they made a lick of sense. Kersh helping Mulder in the end makes even less sense, despite the fact that he was maybe on Mulders side for a brief moment at the beginning of the season. The series ends with the FBI on the hunt for Mulder and Scully while they lie in a motel bed, reminiscing about their past. He doesnt even ask about the son of theirs she gave up for adoption. This is misery business and a horrible conclusion to one of televisions greatest series. While it has some gruesome moments and an awesome sequence where Doggett gets vomited on long enough for it to be a gag on Family Guy, the plot about a demonic possession is boring and drawn out. Doggett is a madman barking at his superiors like Mulder on Adderall. Reyes is saddled with a dumb sexual harassment plot with Cary Elwes. Oh, and Lucy Lawless shows up as a Super Soldier whos mostly naked half the time, and drowning people the other half what a weird way to kill people you can crush with your bare hands. Everyones allegiances shift so many times in this episode, youll get a migraine trying to figure out which side Kersh is actually on, or how Doggett manages to keep his job after continuing to ignore orders. Were supposed to care about all of these people retconned into Mulders life, including an archnemesis. Electronics. The only truly great thing about this episode is the ending, where the monster of the week sends Mulder a message on his cell phone that reads All done. Bye bye. 1. 57. Its merely forgettable. The X Files had a tendency to mine foreign cultures a little too much, and in ways that feel othering. At least Lucy Liu guest stars in this episode, which gives it a few bright spots. But this time, were supposed to imagine his sister is the real villain, despite the fact that we saw Modell murder a bunch of people in his first appearance. Just watch Pusher and forget about this one. This one forgoes the Super Soldiers nonsense for a cult that wants to kill Scullys baby, or Mulder, or both. Ultimately, they kidnap William and use him to turn on a spaceship so they can leave Earth.