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Danielle’s Top 10 Favorite X Files Episodes (Season 1 to 5) (Top ten Tuesday)

I LIVE! Excuses are boring, let’s get right back to work.

I ended up liking X Files. Well, I “like” X Files in the “this is something I like to watch but also like to claim I don’t like to watch.” It helped when I learned that a lot of people I know also find the myth arc episodes to be weaker.

So, I was GOING to do a “pre movie” set of my favorite X Files episodes, and then if I made it through the series then maybe a second set. HOWEVER Netflix decided that I was done watching X Files a few episodes shy of the end of Season 5.

Let’s go!

Number 10: Kill Switch

I don’t think that Kill Switch is one of the best episodes of the show, but it’s one that I enjoyed a lot because of my own preference towards tragic AI and ambiguous endings. Some of it is too dorky and I’m not sure I consider it a really “good” episode, but it’s one that I especially enjoyed.

Number 9: War of the Corprophages

Is pretty much here for that one effect. You know the one. Crawling on my screen. *shudder* Also, though, a lot of interesting fakeouts in this one. Usually that’s kind of frustrating but I thought it was compelling how they unwrapped this one. I’m not a fan of “jealous Scully” episodes, though.

Number 8: Ice

Yes, yes, it is another rehash of “Who Goes There?” / The Thing but I think that they did a good job. This episode was one of the first ones that I sat still and actually watched. Before that I would just kind of “let it run” while I wander around.

Number 7: Die Hand Die Verletzt

An interesting episode in that it subverts your “small town” expectations. Also your cultist expectations. X-Files is nominally about searching for truth but the truth can be elusive when dealing with repressed memories, false memories, and satanic cults. Creepy without being too gory.

Number 6: Piper Maru & Apocrypha

One of the few “Myth Arc” duology episodes that I enjoyed. The black oil arc in general was one of the more tolerable parts of the “myth arc.” And I appreciate the reintroduction of Krycek. This one also seems like it could stack “on top” of the tangled conspiracies rather than supplant them like some others tried to “it’s aliens!” “no it’s genetic engineering!” “No it’s false memories!” Until you don’t care anymore. Black oil has such a visceral impact - genuinely unsettling.

Number 5: Unusual Suspects

An interesting opportunity to flesh out The Lone Gunmen some with great use of Mulder as a side character. Funny without being too corny. Sometimes elaborating on interesting side characters kills the charm, but I think that this did the opposite for me.

Number 4: Humbug

This is one was one of my first real favorites. There was some good humor here, and some effective use of the characters. Scully eating the cricket (real or not) is a good highlight. Mulder jokingly hitting on the hotel proprietor. And the sideshow actors get their own good lines “Imagine, going through your whole life looking like that.”

Number 3: Paper Hearts

Probably kind of a weird episode to be on a favorite list, but I have weird tastes. I mean, we KNOW that the episode is going to come to nothing, but this episode is a great examination of Mulder’s character. While I’m not the biggest Mulder fan Duchovny does a great job here going through a huge range of emotions. And just the plot idea - what if Mulder has replaced one terrible terrible event with another one in his mind. What happens if you replaced banal and sick and human evil with a grand dramatic conspiracy. And Mulder is just as obsessed and just as rules breaking and just as careless with people as he ever was. It kind of puts into light just how great the collateral damage can be when the collateral damage is potentially a little girl. Great character exploration.

Number 2: Bad Blood

If you can glance down and look at number one you might see why this episode would be number two. I enjoyed the she-said he-said aspect. I enjoyed the vampires just trying to get by and living in a trailer park. Loved the “I WAS DRUGGED!” joke. Duchovny and Anderson did a great job switching up the acting but still being in character. It was so much fun.

Number 1: Jose Chung’s “From Outer Space”

Of course it is! Trying to figure out what really happened and who is telling “the truth” may be futile, but it sure is fun! Every bit of this is great and it’s the only episode that I went back and watched twice (so far.) It’s hard to talk about since you should really just experience it.

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Danielle Watches What We Do In The Shadows

This is pretty funny.

The scenes with the werewolves are some of my favorites.

Just really cute.

Maven of the Eventide did a pretty good breakdown of this one.

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Danielle Watches Get Out

In which awkwardness reaches dangerous levels.

I know I should be taking this seriously but I’ve been marathoning X Files and the dissonantly cheerful music now feels inexorably tied that thing they were going in Season 5&6 -

-oh DEER!

Slow burn horror movies are my favorite and this is amazing.

I’m not even sure I’m qualified to speak on how great this is.

AAAH THE PHOTOS IN THE CLOSET. AAAH AAH AAH.

Oh this is classic!

I love the sunken place imagery.

Hmm, could do without the flashbacks to the foreshadowing. Minorest of quibbles though.

Oh man holy shit.

Okay not as much commentary on this one because you SHOULD JUST WATCH THIS MOVIE.

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Danielle Watches the Babadook

In which a kid really needs therapy.

The little lights/eyes in the tree is great.

Mmm...we got us some fantastic.

I love all the appropriate stuff on the TV.

Seriously though if she would have gone and reached out at the very first and said “yes, this is all more than I can handle” things would have -

-HOLY SHIT THE DOG

Problem with horror movies is there’s a finer line between scary and goofy than we like to think.

Uhm. ‘k.

See, yeah, she needed to acknowledge it to disempower it making it a metaphor for mental illness and the feelings of being overwhelmed and helplessness she’s had since her husband died.

Ppppfffaaahahahaha “My cousin’s not coming because I broke her nose in two places.”

So it still lives in the basement because it’ll always be a problem but blahblah overcoming it.

Seriously though are either of you actually getting therapy?

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