![]() makes out with a noir-y vampire lady? Or something? (Don't worry, Scully returns in Season 2, Episode 8.) ![]() The Season 2 Episodes After Scully Is Abducted In her absence, Mulder. After a while, you're not going to care about how it ends. In the same way one doesn't watch Lost for its satisfying ending, The X-Files has been unshackled from its ratings duties for over a decade and is now more about the fun of experiencing what has become the Rosetta Stone for both its onscreen descendants and the way modern TV maintains loyal fanbases. (Eventually people would start calling this the Chris Carter effect, a phenomenon wherein a show starts losing followers because its plot loses its mind.) But plot consistency isn't why one binge-watches a show like this. To get the really long version you need to watch the entire series-and for that, we're here to help.Īs the show progressed, notably after the sixth season and subsequent 1998 X-Files movie, critics noted that showrunners-of whom there were many, including creator Chris Carter and Breaking Bad impresario Vince Gilligan-seemed to be losing their grip on its story arc, trying new ideas out and discarding them before the audience even had a chance to recover. The long version: Take the short version and add catastrophically, comically huge meta-government conspiracies, relatively heavy-handed social justice metaphors, and every supernatural/extraterrestrial/folklore tale you can possibly imagine. The short version: Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), a doctor and skeptic working for the FBI, is assigned to essentially babysit fellow agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), a believer to a fault whose sister was abducted (by aliens or otherwise) when they were children and whose investigations into the FBI's inexplicable X-Files cases often need an anchor in reality. Read More Binge-Watching Guides Fringe The Wire Freaks and GeeksThat means it's time to catch up. Likely thanks to a new life granted by streaming services, the nine-season show-one of the most elaborate, long-winded, beleaguered, and beloved cult sci-fi series in TV history-has received ever-expanding acclaim and became a cultural juggernaut once again. This should obviously be read after the finale of Season 11 as it contains (some) spoilers and functions as an alternate ending to the show.Even if you only have a passing interest in the show, chances are something in your daily life-an offhand reference by a co-worker or an endless stream of GIF sets in your Tumblr feed-has brought The X-Files back into your world. The show continued into a Season 11 which should obviously be watched after the previous season.Īdditionally, there were several comicbook spinoffs, notably a " Season 11" comic serial, executive-produced by X-Files showrunner Chris Carter. Watch the new X-Files (2016) 6 episode miniseries. Leaves the characters in the state we find them in the new miniseries. Want to watch the one season of the spin-off The Lone Gunmen, watch itīefore episode 15. This episode serves as an end to the story of The Lone Gunmen. Episode 15 of season 9 is called “Jump the Shark”. Millennium, watch it between episodes 3 and 4 of X-Files season 7. Series Millennium to watch episode 4, but if you want to watch The episode is intended to serve as aĬonclusion to the series Millennium. Season 7 features an episode titled “ Millennium”. ![]() To as X-Files: Fight the Future, takes place in-between seasons 5 and The first X-Files movie, simply titled X-Files, but now often referred ![]() X-Files afficianado Robert Frost came up with the following watch order for the series and its various spin-offs and crossovers.
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