Things Are Getting Strange
An X-Files rewatch podcast. Updates weekly. Currently exploring Season 7.
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Episodes
101 episodes
Doldrums
It is hard to muster energy for The Lone Gunmen at this point...Diagnosis Jimmy feels stitched together from discarded parts of other episodes and continues to call into question how Jimmy is able to exist in the real ...
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Season 8
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Episode 17
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1:06:40
Watching the Skis!
We've reached episode 100 and so... are taking a break from The Lone Gunmen for this week.Instead we have taken a trip to Springfield to witness the reasonably inexplicable crossover of The X-Files into The Simpsons. Which remains a lot...
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Season 8
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Episode 16
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47:50
Weird Linux Joke
...which was probably more baffling on release, but now we have to ask why the LGM don't actively use Linux for like paranoid reasons...Back off hiatus! And despite the episode title being Planet of the Frohikes, the episode is...
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Season 8
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Episode 15
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1:16:58
Pixellated Wife
Stuff happened between watching Three Men and a Smoking Diaper and when we recorded this episode and made it somehow even less fun than the first time around when we were merely severely annoyed by every little thing in it.Quit...
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Season 8
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Episode 14
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1:12:16
Wilhelm (Doesn't) Scream
Somehow the third episode of the series is Eine Kleine Frohike, an episode of The Lone Gunmen which feels like it should come from a hypothetical season 4 when the writers have well and truly run out of ideas. That it's also t...
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Season 8
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Episode 13
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1:11:28
Bertram's Blood
We swap from the bureaucratic FBI to a low-circulation newspaper office run by three familiar characters. Welcome to The Lone Gunmen. The one series spin-off of the popular trio into their own show!Second time we're discussing ...
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Season 8
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Episode 12
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1:17:31
Could Have Ended Here...
The X-Files could genuinely have ended with Existence. There's room for a future version of the series, but a lot of plot is resolved and the current alien threat is so nebulous. But Season 9 looms. But before that: The Lo...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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45:40
Billy Miles: Weakness: Doors
Not to The Doors slightly sadly. That would be a bit too surreal. But certainly, closing and not even locking a door is enough to deter the new villainous version of that kid from the pilot episode of the series from attacking Doggett ...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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1:16:11
Passing the Time as the Black Oil
Its never bad to have an episode where Reyes shows up. Though Empedocles does stress this attitude. For the main plot, Reyes herself prompts all kinds of questions about her existence within the FBI and her complete non-crossing paths ...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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1:02:18
Punching Krycek in the Face
So Krycek's back in Deadalive. What has he been doing? Did he tell anyone he killed CSM off last season? Why does he want Skinner to prevent Scully from giving birth? We get no answers.But Mulder is definitely dead. Totally. 10...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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1:09:27
Alien in Nikes
It is hard not to question Scully's decision-making ability in Per Manum. Not least because she figures the best place to hide out while conspiratorial stuff is going on is with the army. Who have never, ever been involved wit...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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1:07:58
Worse Than the Mayor from Jaws
We're back! After injury and illness, we return to watch Doggett die in The Gift!It is perhaps not as big a spoiler as you might imagine given he's perfectly fine and in the rest of this season despite this slight complication....
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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48:13
The Tetsuo in the Room
We watched Tetsuo the Iron Man ahead of Salvage this week. Mostly because Salvage is an admitted version of the film. The experience was illuminating but did underscore how strange the idea of doing this idea as an
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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1:11:15
Skinman Does Some Muldering
The premise and intent behind Via Negativa is really neat and interesting! The actual episode starts really strongly and then loses its way somewhat spectacularly and is found exceptionally wanting. Very confusing and not in a fun what...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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1:03:55
Hey Tristan
That Doggett can go through the events of Invocation and come out the other side to dismiss anything happening in Redrum is nothing short of astonishing. Never did Scully get handed something so ardently impossible as the dark...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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1:05:16
Worm Emperor
A decidedly odd start to Doggett's time on the X-Files. And we can't ignore that it would be more effective if Patience and Roadrunners was swapped in the episode order. And also that Patience feels a lot like a re-do...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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57:57
Whatever Happened to Strughold?
New season and new character! With Within we welcome John Doggett to The X-Files and indeed, the X-Files. Our new hardened skeptic to Scully's abruptly much more open-minded version of herself. Which does feel a little odd as ...
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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56:25
Teens with Giger Counters
Is it ever possible to have a story wherein a character is granted three wishes and for them to not screw up immediately? Je Souhaite certainly paints none of the would be wishees in especially good light.Despite the inherent i...
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Season 7
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Episode 12
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1:15:16
The Second Rule
Not sure if the first episode to receive the treatment, but it turns out Mythbusters specifically took down one of the central premises of this episode as being effectively impossible. So, no you can't listen to the Aramaic version of I am ...
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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55:45
Sinister Buddhas
The enduring question we were left with all things was what happened? The answer seemingly was Carter and Spotnitz who did things to the episode and fundamentally changed a few things about the directorial debut of Gillian Anderson.
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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1:01:53
Water Skiing Lessons
We are very much ignoring the future of En Ami. We know and we will get to it. Later.For now, we have questions about extraneous other angels and the complete lack of Lord Kinbote. And that man really does not live up to the co...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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1:06:38
The Sexy Lamp Test
If you are at all convinced by the advertising, the promotional gimmicks, the press interviews for First Person Shooter, we are here to tell you in no uncertain terms how bad this game is. That said, you likely already played it during...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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1:24:02
Nice Episode, Shame About the Plot
And thus we learn the final fate of Samantha Mulder!Is it satisfying? No. Closure is very touching and quite beautiful and well acted. But as a capstone to a question that first appeared in the very first episode this is not wh...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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1:01:31