Evo i upravo izašla nova od Todda
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/2/16832058/the-x-files-review-season-11That leaves season 11 in a pleasingly fascinating place — it consists of mostly standalone episodes, but they all circle the same question of how on Earth we’re all going to get back to the same baseline reality. In past seasons of The X-Files, genius writer Darin Morgan (about whom I wrote so much more here) stood out as an iconoclast, writing brutally funny episodes that questioned the underlying premises of the show itself. But his season 11 outing, “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” (episode four of 10), ends up being a Rosetta stone for the season as a whole.
Morgan takes the idea of the “Mandela effect” — in which people have very clear memories of an event that contradicts the memories of others, to say nothing of the factual and historical record — and runs with it to suggest a world where reality is constantly being manipulated, where even the TV show you’re watching might have once starred a different cast of characters. At first, “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” winks toward Donald Trump in a somewhat clumsy fashion, but Morgan is building to something, to the idea that once you agree to the unraveling of one strand of reality, you’re drifting out to sea.
The X-Files unleashes a set of standalone episodes that compare favorably to episodes from its fifth or sixth seasons — when it had lost a step from its creative highpoint but was still inventive and fun. (I should know, too; I co-wrote a book about the show, coming out this fall.)
I od Alana koji je bio najviše kritičan oko 10. sezone iako je neke pojedinačne epizode volio
http://uproxx.com/sepinwall/the-x-files-review-season-11-mulder-scully-david-duchovny-gillian-anderson/More surprisingly, though, these new episodes make a successful argument for the continued life of The X-Files as a TV series.
But things perk up instantly with the Glen Morgan-written/directed second episode, “This,” a rollicking action-thriller hour where our heroes investigate a mysterious message left for them by the late Ringo Langly (Dean Haglund), one of the members of the Lone Gunmen. The Carter/Hooks collaboration “Plus One,” where people are haunted by their own doppelgangers, is solid meat-and-potatoes Monster of the Week stuff, bringing back Karin Konoval in a couple of new roles after she previously appeared in both “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” and the original series’ most infamous installment, the incest horror story “Home.” And Wong takes over for the fifth episode, “Ghouli,” which seems like it’ll be one kind of X-Files story before taking a sharp and clever turn into being another.
None are classics compared to the best of the original run, but all three are improvements over last season
And “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” is special, as much a loving tribute to The Twilight Zone as an examination of where this series belongs, or doesn’t, in Trump’s America. (Mulder admits at one point that he’s lost his giddiness about conspiracy theories, “especially after all this birther stuff.”) Two years ago, I considered “Were-Monster” enough to justify the existence of the entire season, even though large chunks of the rest of it were unwatchable. “Forehead Sweat” is better than “Were-Monster,” and this season as a whole so far is much better than the last one.
It’s not peak, season three X-Files, because too much time has passed, too many stories have been told, and the world is too different from the one in which Mulder and Scully first partnered. But, the mythology episode aside, it’s much better than it has any business being, particularly given what we got two years ago.
“I want to remember how it was,” Scully says late in Darin Morgan’s episode. “I want to remember how it all was.”
These new episodes will make you remember fondly how it all was, in a way I never would have expected given how the previous batch turned out.
Suza u oku. Kažu da je Darinova epizoda još bolja od njegove iz 10. sezone, a Were Monstera su svi kritičari tad imali kao jednu od najboljih epizoda godine. O jebote, što nam je tek sad Darin isporučio. Nešto u stilu The Twilight Zone koliko vidim. Nadam se da će dobiti opet Emmy kao što je dobio za Clyde Buckmana on i Peter Boyle za gostujuću ulogu jer takav talent se rađa jednom u sto godina. Samo je šteta što se zamjerio scijentologiji u ono vrijeme kad ih je kritzirao u Jose Chungu i onoj epizodi iz serije Millennium. Al neka, vraća se jači nego ikad.
dva legendarna motm lika. I tu sjoš Eve blizanke, Krychek, Skinner i Smokey. Jebena ekipa.
sad izgleda još bolje.
