Things Are Getting Strange
An X-Files rewatch podcast. Updates weekly. Currently exploring Season 9.
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Episodes
110 episodes
God Plays Checkers with the Universee
At least, we're pretty sure guest star Burt Reynolds is God in Improbable at any rate. A rather stunning surprise from Chris Carter, this episode is tremendous fun, though unable to escape more questions about why Reyes isn't fired for...
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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1:05:29
The Episode We Forgot
One of them anyway...Audrey Pauley feels more like a Twilight Zone episode, but is an interesting contrast to Steven Maeda's previous season 9 episode of 4D. And yet, somehow we end up talking about Dark So...
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Season 9
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Episode 6
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1:02:47
Kim Manners Was Right
...mostly about the current state of the conspiracy here in Season 9...Providence, wait, Provenance. No, Providence. Dammit, its Provenance!Provenance has the Lone Gunmen for hilar...
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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1:02:36
Flayed Corpse Specific Sheets
Vince Gilligan has failed us!And apparently only us as the critical reception to John Doe is strikingly positive. We speculate how much of this is due to snobbishness around sci-fi/fantasy/horror and how much is because we're we...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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55:51
Insect Boy Biology
With Lord of the Flies, we wonder why The X-Files is now about a group of British school-children trapped on a desert island-Wait...We actually get curious as to whether the show's allusion to Jackass ma...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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1:00:16
Rubber Mask Reality
Daemonicus is Kim's most hated episode of the entire run of The X-Files. Fun times!A good start leads into an increasingly dissatisfying experience and we once again discover how different intent was to how we wound up ...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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56:38
Saw Trap Mobiles
We're not entirely sure if Scully buys Jigsaw brand mobiles for her baby or the foley-artist made a strange choice for season 9's opener, but when baby William seems to use telekinesis to make his mobile move... It does sound like something out...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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1:08:22
Walk Without Rhythm...
...it won't attract the worm!Weapon of Choice used (for no particular reason) in All About Yves is one of the high points. We get into why even with the writers throwing every trick in the bag to get a second series, e...
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Season 8
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Episode 19
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1:23:29
Better
We were told these two episodes were an improvement... and that was not wrong!The Lying Game impressively avoids a gigantic pitfall that would have made the episode incredibly uncomfortable and lowered our impression of the cha...
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Season 8
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Episode 18
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1:06:20
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. W...
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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