It speaks volumes to how groundbreaking a series The X-Files was that one of its greatest episodes is a satire of its own conventions. It’s the most meta episode in the show’s entire run, making playful use of its unreliable narrators - including Mulder and Scully - to craft a story that only comes close to making sense when you step outside the universe the series had spent three seasons drawing its audience into. Typically considered to be either the best episode of the series or simply one of the best, writer Darin Morgan’s eccentric alien-abduction story is a constantly shifting narrative that doubles back on its own story countless times, and ends up being a brilliant satire of the series itself.
‘Jose Chung’s From Outer Space‘ (Season 3, episode 20) Funny, touching, and thought-provoking in all the right ways, this episode simultaneously served to renew Mulder’s faith in himself and fans’ faith in the series. Darby proves to be the episode’s big scene-stealer in the role of Guy Mann, a mobile phone store employee who may or may not be able to transform into a giant lizard creature. The story has Mulder and Scully investigating a grisly murder in Oregon that might have been committed by a mysterious creature. It’s no surprise that this episode is generally considered to be one of the best chapters of the X-Files revival seasons, given that it brings back the series’s most acclaimed writer, Darin Morgan, for a monster-of-the-week episode featuring two of the most talented comedic actors on television: Rhys Darby ( Flight of the Conchords) and Kumail Nanjiani ( Silicon Valley). ‘Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster’ (Season 10, episode 3) It also earned Anderson a lead-actress Emmy for her performance in this episode, as well as the entire fourth season. Duchovny and Anderson’s characters were brought closer than they ever had been before in this emotional arc that reverberated from this point to the end of the series’ run, and the script earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Chris Carter, Vince Gilligan, John Shiban, and Frank Spotnitz. The episode unfolds from two perspectives: Scully’s own efforts to come to terms with her fatal diagnosis and Mulder’s desperate quest for both answers and a cure. One of the series’s most heart-wrenching episodes, this 1997 story introduced Scully’s aggressive cancer diagnosis, which would become a recurring plot point throughout the rest of the series. The story follows Mulder and Scully as they investigate a series of murders that seem to involve an invisible killer, which doesn’t seem like anything special until you finally get a glimpse of the killer and, well - let’s just say this is the only episode of the series that still gives us nightmares. You won’t find this episode on many best-of lists, but it’s one of our personal favorites. While there are currently no plans for a season 12, there are more than 200 television episodes, two feature films, and countless tie-in novels and comic books to keep fans immersed in Mulder and Scully’s adventures tracking aliens, monsters, and strange phenomena. The warm reception to that six-episode revival prompted the Fox network to deliver a 10-episode 11th season in 2018. ‘Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose’ (Season 3, episode 4)įBI Agents Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) returned to the spotlight in recent years for a successful revival of the hit show, which returned to television for its 10th season in 2016 after a 14-year hiatus from the small screen (and an eight-year layoff since The X-Files: I Want to Believe hit theaters in 2008). ‘The Post-Modern Prometheus’ (Season 5, episode 5 )
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