A Love Letter To The X-Files

[@joefosh]

i preferred the isolated cases and 'monster of the week' episodes over the season-long arches about mulder hunting aliens.

[@AJM01]

They were some of the most memorable episodes!

[@oliverbaba1882]

exactly.

[@jeremysiron9622]

Exact comment I was going to make, the standalone “monster of the week” episodes were by far the best

[@jeremysiron9622]

Hmmm this came up late on the algorithm I guess because it’s Halloween

[@SMtWalkerS]

Me too! Fluke monster! Cancer eater! Love the monsters!

[@centocerez]

One of the greatest shows ever.

[@dontrah1838]

Bouta start watching it

[@MichaelPremsrirat]

"Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" guest starring Peter Boyle was an incredible episode that still haunts me to this day.

[@siegeofdarkness8212]

"Don't you get it yet kid? You do the things you do because you're a homicidal maniac."

[@melenatorr]

@@siegeofdarkness8212 He told Scully she doesn't die. I always had questions about that one.

[@DeadManSinging1]

Thats my favorite episode. His death and its foreshadowing, so sad and perfect

[@DeadManSinging1]

It has the best line in the series: "Do you want to know how you die?" "Actually, yes. Yes I would" "No...You don't"

[@Bootmahoy88]

Yes. Me too!!!!

[@ramcharger154]

Annabeth and Patric added so much and i loved ALL the characters start to finish.

[@ronibopshop]

I loved the theme, but then I'm older than you, so the theme was my cue to join my dad in the living room to watch together. Having lost my dad 10 years ago to pancreatic cancer, these are some of my fondest memories

[@shainewhite2781]

I used to watch the series every Friday night, this and Millennium. My parents and I were hooked onto this show! They moved it to Sundays during it's final seasons. Had to go to school the next day, but stayed up a little longer to watch what happens. BBC, Chiller, SYFY and FX had run the series on syndication.

[@pablosonic892]

RIP Meatloaf 'That' from his seminal song I Would Do Anything For Love where he then says, But I Won't Do That, 'That' is literally stated in the lyric directly before the chorus and aforementioned title of the song. I won't spoil it here, but sing the entire chorus or look up the lyrics to see the answer is clearly stated first. This is like the close cousin to the Titanic argument of why Rose didn't make room for Jack on the floating debris and let him freeze to death. On that front, rewind thirty seconds when Jack literally chills next to Rose. They address why when the scene starts. Jack tries to mount the debris and it almost sinks the debris and Rose with it.

[@MAGICMONKEY52]

The Monster of the Week episodes tended to be the best ones of the series. Thank you for a great video essay. You mentioned some really great episodes. Hungry and that Cher episode were some of my favourites.

[@barrysmith8078]

Cher episode was called "post modern prometheus" great episode

[@mattgrundy27]

Great video. I named my son Fox. This show will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart. The Truth is Out There!

[@joedavis376]

My favorite show of all time. It was groundbreaking television. It still holds up too.

[@theunderrated86]

Ah the 90s. Glad I was raised during that decade. I watched the X-Files film where Mulder and Scully ran into a greenhouse with lots of bees (couldn't remember which one), and it was great. The series reboot didn't really catch me on though.

[@MrPhilm00r]

I remember quite vividly sitting down to watch the pilot with my mom back in 93. It's a wonderful memory.

[@kingshanethe1st]

intro creeped me out as a kid. the episode where the teachers were devil worshipers was the one that scared me the most at that age and a favorite was the episode where they were in Washington state and dealing with the bugs that would swarm/kill you when there was no light. great show and definitely a staple for a person growing up in the 90's

[@BiteSized_]

Loved this video- I’ve been listening to files videos nonstop for 2 days- this was a great listen

[@JoBloHorrorOriginals]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Gillian is still my #1 lust crush. And as a teen geek in the day, the first 8 seasons were classic.

[@owie4070]

Same here. I couldn't take my eyes off her.

[@uncledubpowermetal]

Yall know the Truth lol

[@darkurgesbr]

She sure was gorgeous

[@adamdavis1737]

She's still gorgeous I was pretty little when X Files first aired I used to force myself to watch the scary stuff just to see her face

[@grahamcarroll30]

She's absolutely stunning in Hannibal

[@elphaba4674]

I remember my mom watching this late at night, and I'd sneak out of my room and watch from behind the couch or from around the hallway corner! 🤣 loved this show! 👌

[@Pewpewpew182]

Wow, 30 years ago today! Gonna start watching it now that it’s on Amazon Prime.

[@lechevaliersavage2416]

Man the episode of the little man on the board with squeaky wheels scared me for years as a kid. When I head the wind blow stuff and made squeaky noises I couldn't sleep. I wanna watch this from season 1 now

[@myxfilesfanvideoes]

Brilliant episode! It also haunts my son!

[@j.d.waterhouse4197]

It's still my favorite show. Sure, many episodes were rather silly, but the chemistry between Duchovny and Anderson is priceless.

[@GutturalReef]

I only ever watched one episode of The X-Files; the one where they did a crossover wit' COPS. Good episode!

[@shainewhite2781]

3:57, speaking of inspiration, Eric Kripke creator of Supernatural, Said that this show and The Twilight Zone, is what made his Series what it is.

[@fishtropiccanada4747]

Simple truth is there was so many actors in these series that It’s just a master piece of tv 📺

[@rydz656]

Those first five seasons were the shit.

[@stevenmorris2234]

So true along with the first featured film I would like to add. First five seasons and film are the best.

[@stevenmorris2234]

To this day I still like to believe that The X Files ended at Season 8. Even though it gets so much hate. We can all pretty much agree that Season 9 will always be the worst season ever. Season 9-11 I like to pretend don’t exist. X Files 1993-2001 Season 1-5 along with first film and Season 6-8 that’s how a perfect series ends.

[@jonathanramos8414]

The latter seasons are watchable but the quality definitely declined. Chris Carter just didn't know how to end his mythology arc. And the revival series was ok but it wasn't necessary. Now I hear they want to reboot. Yeah I'm not interested. Nothing will top the original series

[@dontrah1838]

Thinking about watching it

[@derekedwards5390]

Humbug is my favorite...... The Host is a close second!!! Awesome video I really hope you can do an indepth episode for each season!!! That would be awesome......

[@thisshouldbeentertaining3386]

X-Files was at it's best when it featured more of the creature of the week episodes. After season 3 it started leaning heavily on the alien conspiracy stuff. Which in the first seasons was a nice bonus if you watched the whole season/s. But in the later seasons with more of the episodes dealing with the alien subject matter. If you missed a episode or 2 you were totally lost.

[@nightshadeii9248]

One of the most formative TV shows of my childhood.

[@37Kilo2]

I rewatched the series about 8 years ago, and have been meaning to rewatch yet again... It's been too long. Those first 5 seasons were amazing. The Lone Gunmen were some of my favorite guests.

[@37Kilo2]

I didn't realize there was a lawsuit with Duchovny. I never really knew why Mulder was pushed aside when he was the best part of the show.

[@erichtomanek4739]

I remember the episode where they were getting on each others nerves. Scully asks Mulder why he always drives. He replies because her legs are too short. And she snaps on her plastic gloves with great relish.

[@DrGregoryHouseIT]

Syzygy?

[@evelllyn.]

Yeah that would be syzygy from season 3. 🙂When I was younger I thought it was so cool that the girls birthday was January 12 cuz that was my bday too.

[@shelby8364]

"I know how much you love snapping on the latex"- Mulder to Scully

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Two facts: 1. It looked like Silence of the Lambs. Even the leads looked like Clarice and sounded like Hannibal, respectively. 2. This really transformed Vancouver. Yes, production was big there, but X-Files showed you could film any environment there.

[@thecunninlynguist]

The ending to that limited series event was such a tease

[@killianlpc]

So many brilliant episodes I think the Unopened File Trilogy was the best featuring Anasazi, The Blessing Way and Paper Clip.

[@JoBloHorrorOriginals]

Totally agree!

[@marieanngarcia8837]

I lovvvvvvvvvveee x-files miss it already all of their episodes ...great writers directors actors ...

[@FransHattingh]

"... spooky dookie." 🤣 EDIT: The Tooms episodes scared the living [bleep] out of me as a kid. They both remain my favourite episodes to date.

[@rougeneon1997]

The vampire episode where we see the same story but told hilariously different from Moulder and Scully's perspective is PURE GOLD (Oh yea "Bad Blood"). Also "Bunghoney" with the murderous doll wrecked my younger sister back in the day lol EDIT yes Fringe! Ive never met an X-Files fan that DIDNT like Fringe. So under-rated.

[@AJM01]

This series was a classic and to this day remains a firm favourite of mine!

[@videoj81]

Well done , thank you for posting this takes me back

[@IAMTHESTARMAN]

X-Files was the doorway to all my obsessions. I have watched this show all the way through about 20 times. I will always hold a place for XF in my heart.

[@aikisteven0616]

STILL kick myself to this day that I skipped the 1st couple of seasons when it originally aired, thinking it would be too cheesy - from the ads, I was thinking it was more along the lines of Fox's earlier 'War of the Worlds' show or even 'Project UFO' from the 70's... Fortunately my brother clued me into just how good it was, and it quickly became a Friday night mainstay. We'd watch the show, then head out to to the Cup-A-Joe coffee shop that stayed open until midnight on weekends to hang with friends, smoke too many cigarettes and get overly-caffeinated 'til the wee hours... Good times for sure.

[@aowen1079]

Didn't matter what my friends and I did Friday evenings,. We had to watch the X Files. Because we were all geeks. But also because it was good. The casting was excellent and I miss it.

[@mediasawdust2458]

I watch the series still, usually once a year. Great stories - always felt as though the stories could actually happen.

[@DeadManSinging1]

Actually, Mulder is often wrong. Many times, what he thinks is some monster or supernatural force, just turns out to be a serial killer. It happens at least once or twice a season

[@brian0057]

Beyond the Sea is a personal favorite.

[@amandakendall4541]

The show was a phenomenon, one of a kind.

[@britishwordplay4335]

One of the greatest TV shows ever

[@Mattsta2010]

Meat Loaf actually told you in the song what he wouldn't do, if you were paying attention...."I'll never lie to you and thats a fact!"

[@mikeyfn-a6684]

93' was a seriously good year. But 94' was even better. The summer Dookie never left my CD player and I went to see The Crow on the big screen. Great summer to turn 14 😎

[@Scottocaster6668]

The HOME episode is my favorite from X-Flies. It grabs you from the beginning. No wonder I couldn't find it back then! *Edit: Most female narration in videos is irritating, But yours Niki, is quite pleasant. Good job too btw.

[@GabrielKnightz]

No one ever mentions the FMV video game written by the creators and featured David and Gillian.

[@chrisbuckley1785]

I actually got into this show long after it was over. I used to watch the twilight zone on Syfy ( ScIFY) and this came on right after it. And I got into it. I remember getting my brother into it and he said "I don't like those kinda shows". He got hooked on it to. It's just a good show with just enough sci-fi to still be enjoyed by the masses. The first few seasons of lost had a very similar vibe tbh. Love this show and it's easily in my top 5 of all time.

[@craigamore2319]

In spite of Duchuvney's absence, season 8 ranks among the best in the series. Anderson's performance, in light of Mulder's disappearance, is her best work in the series over the course of a season, especially when you consider the dissonance created by Scully's desire to maintain her professional and ethical devotion to rigorous scientific rationalism and her desire to take up Mulder's mantle as the one who "wants to believe." This is exemplified by the episode 'Patience', one of the best monster of the week episodes in the series

[@kylereece1979]

If we take a tv shows' seasons as "albums", then X Files seasons 2 and 3 are some of my favourite "albums" of all time. I can watch every early episode in general, and Boom, I am back in the mid- late 90s again, but they still gather new meaning to me. It is a show that it is very important to me. And in general , seasons 1-5 are incredible. Every epiosded means something to me. But....I will say something here: For me, it sort of "jumps the shark" after s5. The difference between the show before and after that first movie was so glaringly there. Season 6 was sunnier, brighter, and lighter. A string of comedy tinged episodes - whilst entertaining to most- totally derailed and disregarded the massive build up and sky smashing scene at "Fight the Future"s end. Worst of all- Scully STILL was a sceptic in UFOs despite being rescued form a gigantic UFO underneath the ice in Antarctic! In such a convoluted idea, she was "passed out" as it happened, and spends the rest of the series acting like it never happened. It was a terrible idea and shutdown of character development. S7 could have put this all right, but they took the mythology episodes into more tangents and more horrid self parody like the "Fight Club" episode. I really liked s8's attempts to bring the show back to its roots and Robert Patrick was superb in general. But sadly, it had passed its popularity peak and the audience wasnt there. I really think that season 7 should have pulled out all the stops to answer everything and give the show the ending it deserved. But ultimately and sadly, Chris Carter was never able to finish what he started. He wasnt able to convincingly and interestingly develop Scully into a believer, despite all the things she saw and was involved in each and every week. He was never able to tie up the alien arc, and kept adding more and more things that by season 9 were too OTT in comparison to the earlier season's delicious and devious appetizers and teasers regarding the aliens, human hybrid stories. Even the recent - and very good in places revamp. He still could'nt wrap it all up. The whole "William" plot should never have happened and really was the biggest hindrance to the show.

[@keepthemetalflowing]

I found out the X-Files during, I believe it was season 3. It blew me away... I really don't recall the first episode I watched but the show had me hooked. When the first movie came out, I flew to Vegas to visit family and I MADE them go to see the movie with me at Sam's Town. One of my all-time favorite shows. And though they didn't always get along behind the scenes, Duchovny and Anderson's interplay could at times be cute and funny (like in "Home" where Mulder and Scully are talking about kids and he tells her: "Well, just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic make-up and a really high tolerance for being second-guessed and start pumping out the little Uber-Scullies."). I mean, genius line delivery and it was hysterical as was the rest of the convo in that scene. Or in "Syzygy" when he tells her he would drive since he didn't think her legs could reach the pedals and slams the door before she can respond. The look on Scully's face says it all. I mean, there are hundreds if not more moments like this between the two leads. Both actors had great chemistry, and their line delivery was so well done -there were times you'd forget you were watching a show. I miss it. I do. Luckily I have Hulu so I can revisit as much as I want. Very well done video, thank you for sharing your thoughts about the show.

[@snakehandler87]

I friggin 💚💜👽 this channel, the episode about the little man w no legs that rolled around and occasionally crawled up inside people...like wtff

[@batman.darthmaul]

There are also X-Files audiobooks with Duchovny, Anderson, and most of the other major players providing the voice talent.

[@ulfingvar1]

Best TV show ever, period! Even the erratic last three seasons contained some magnificent storytelling, so..no, we'll probably not see its like again in many a moon.

[@damnielm0]

The x files was like a cultural event going on every week. it was so huge. The idiosyncratic style episode looks hella fun. I have to watch that. Through our all the years I’ve only seen a couple episodes of it.

[@evelllyn.]

I will always have a special place in my heart for xfiles. I remember watching the show when I was 10 so I think that was right around the 4th season but I have vague memories of watching it before then. Not only was it the first fandom I was into but also the first fandom I read fanfic about. OH LORDY THE AMOUNT OF MSR FIC I WAS READING AT THAT TIME LMAOOOO

[@IDKeffect82]

Great topic and rundown of this series.

[@stevenbootes1979]

Excellently written and narrated.

[@mullaoslo]

Idk how old you where at the time.. But I was 8 - 9 and insted of being scared of the intro we would play the theme and dance to it at parties I'd be suprised if they didn't do a movie or something for the 30th anniversary to finish the series proper

[@UnwrittenSpade]

Amazing video

[@patrickfergz8140]

One of my favourite shows ever... only got into it when it was on Netflix a while back and binged the first 4 or 5 seasons over a couple weeks

[@MarcusMIDI]

This video is brilliant!! Love x-files, you covered it awesomely 😃👍

[@seanbehrens3203]

X-Files is one of the better hour long shows out there (except season 7, which blows). But, 3 horror film franchises came from X-Files episodes. Wrong Turn came from s4e2's "Home", Jeepers Creepers came from s8e9's "Patience". And Final Destination came from one of the rejected episodes but that franchise was ran by James Wong and Glen Morgan.

[@jchow5966]

Thank you!! The x files was a terrific year!!!!!

[@JaneLame]

Awesome video is awesome. I really enjoyed watching this.

[@shainewhite2781]

3:19, yes they sure are. Loved the Monster Of The Week.

[@GTAjunkie99]

the great mutato: drugs and rapes a bunch of women mulder & scully: I guess we we're the real monsters all along... *cue cher concert*

[@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954]

That episode was the only X-Files episode I wholly disliked and found actively repulsive, and I would argue that the episode is even worse than you suggest, since it not so subtly implies that if women in general were not so 'shallow' and could look past the gross physical mutations of the character, then he and his 'father' would not 'need' to drug innocent women so that he could violate them while they are unconscious and impregnate them with mutated offspring, something he comes within a trice of doing to Scully herself. I never saw that character as a victim, still less as even slightly sympathetic - sure, his life circumstances were rough, but that doesn't begin to justify what he did, still less explain the show writers' downright creepily indulgent attitude toward a character who is still, however you slice it, a serial r*pist. He should be going to prison, not a Cher concert.

[@myxfilesfanvideoes]

​@@gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954thank you!

[@BrennanPasquale-y8t]

The X Files Still Kicks Ass! Easily My #1 Show From 90s.

[@Fourthmark]

I remember watching the X files and Freaky Links friday nights with my grandmother.

[@ozzmosis6544]

so glad i found this channel

[@ryanpetersen3789]

I was 9 years old when I watched that banned episode on Halloween night. Suffice it say, scarred for life.

[@interlinkedMedia]

I want to beleive that the swearing wasn't unnatural sounding and distracting.

[@pablosonic892]

Any episode written by Darin Morgan. He elevated an already elevated show.

[@pablosonic892]

Humbug, Clyde Bruckman's final repose, War of the Capcrucru, no; Coppolas, no, Copacabana, no. The COCKROACH episode, all right!

[@sannakarppinen4163]

make this kind of video about the series The Pretender . it was a good series and deserve this kind of video.

[@JoeMapes]

Second best theme only behind Unsolved Mysteries. I always enjoyed the monster of the week episodes the best. They had the best comedy like HumBug. The alien episodes were too serious and I felt like I was watching an Oliver Stone film like JFK over and over again.

[@jonathanramos8414]

I remember watching re runs on fox as a kid and being freaked out by the monsters and aliens. And it made me think the fbi really did investigate the paranormal lol. I was born in 95 so i grew up near the end of the shows run. Im jealous I didn't get to experience its heyday in the early mid 90s. But im still glad i was alive during its run

[@mattyt1961]

such a great show that still holds up (despite the date tech in the main seasons) some of them need multiple viewings just to really appreciate how awesome they are. Although come on, someone pick up Millenium, or just grab Millenium, Xfiles, The Lone Gunmen and Space Above & Beyond, make them their own streaming service and take my money

[@minhdo3482]

The last part with duchovny falling over is so funny

[@Refry17]

X files, tales from the crypt, are you afraid of the dark, and... unsolved mysteries. I think those are the 4 theme songs that made you cry.

[@aliciafranco5704]

JO!!!!!!!!! Remember TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE ? That was a tight show back in the 80's❤❤❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@shelby8364]

love that show so much! they play it sometimes on Comet on Saturdays and X-Files every weeknight from 10 PM till 1 AM

[@whoami7721]

Easily one of my all-time favorites.

[@michellebermingham2350]

I love the xfiles full stop. All seasons, all movies. Mulder and scully. Doggett and Reiner. Still the best series ever. Better than the stuff that is being made today.

[@necrosunderground]

PLEASE do an episode on Millennium! That show was fantastic, especially the first season; it always kinda felt like it was stuck in the X-Files shadow, and coulda gone bigger if it had been given the chance. And the theme song? For my money, creepier than the X-Files Also, hard agree, the monster of the week episodes were generally far better than the longer story arc episodes

[@unitedplankton2866]

Humbug and Jose Chungs Oùter Space are my 2 favorite eoisodes.

[@Ravuun]

Good video overall. Vancouver BC is in the geographical region know as the Pacific Northwest. Just because it's in Canada doesn't exclude it from the region. Vancouver is only about a 1.5 hour drive from the U.S. border.

[@souvenirsucces4450]

Thank you for this review, I am going to give it a try

[@richiedagger733]

I think the episode was called the moth men? The sort of invisible guys 5hat lived in the forest? Absolutely terrified me as a kid, I would lay in bed thinking about if I was in any strange forests that day and if they were coming to get me... so far so good, still here haha

[@kylereece1979]

That episode is early in season 5 and its called "Detour". Great episode! It was based on the moth men as you said, and nicely references the incident that also pops up in the "Mothman Prophecies" movie with Richard Gere in 2002.

[@ConservativeVoicesUniversity]

The X-Files ROCKED

[@toothlessrick3970]

When I was a kid I never missed an episode of the Night Stalker. Fast forward into my late twenties and I was addicted to the X-Files. I have a lot of favorite monster-of-the-week episodes - Mostly the ones with a lot of comedy in it, but my number 1 is 'Bad Blood' followed by 'X-Cops'. Now after watching this upload, I'm going dig into my closet for my DVD collection and have a X-Files marathon.

[@Dark_Jaguar]

I always thought a show like this had legs to be spun off with all new settings and characters much like Star Trek. I also love how writers online have all formed together to make a sort of spiritual successor with the SCP foundation stories, which can be thought of as: "What if the X-Files program (as in the in-universe X-Files branch of the FBI) actually had a budget?"

[@irishjoe2941]

I’m a huge fan of the X-Files!

[@ronin2976]

YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT DWAYNE BARRY'S GOING THROUGH!

[@philip2010]

I love this show I should get it on DVD

[@dmitch1983]

Fun fact. The band Eve 6 got their name from the episode "Eve"

[@phillipmontano7664]

The x files one was one of my favorite shows for sure

[@aspie-anarchist9854]

Vancouver is in the pacific northwest. It's in Canada sure, but we are referring to region. Its literally right on the border of Washington and it shares the salesh sea and the sound. And I promise the Washingtonians have more in common with the Vancouver Canadians than the rest of America and they themselves are more similar to the people from Washington than the rest of canada.

[@RadioofHorror]

The dvds for Millennium are cheap to find. The recent Xfiles case book is very cool it came out last year

[@gooddog2001]

I am a fan. Yes, the X-files raised the bar. Too bad the movies were a flop. But it is a hit or miss process. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE.

[@themaxshow100]

So many great episodes