The X-Files Season 6, Episode 22: Biogenesis

Getting the band back together, are we? And for a cliffhanger of a season finale, which we haven't seen in a while. I can already tell this is going to be quite a ride.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 21: Field Trip

Thanks a lot, X-Files, you've now made me wonder if my entire life is a hallucination while I'm slowly being digested by a giant fungal colony.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 20: Three of a Kind

So, 'Three of a Kind' was obviously a followup to 'Unusual Suspects', and was similarly excellent. Also amusing, because really, any episode that features the Lone Gunmen as main characters is bound to involve hilarious hijinks.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 19: The Unnatural

Baseball and aliens and racial tension. Three things that I never thought I'd be talking about all in one single post, but this is The X-Files, after all.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 18: Milagro

I don't know what other people thought of this one, but I found it to be an outstanding episode. The obvious one to compare it to is 'Jose Chung's From Outer Space', but it also had elements of another of Darin Morgan's excellent episodes, 'Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose'.

It wasn't quite up to the standard of either, but it's still one of my favourites so far.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 17: Trevor

Note to television writers: If you aren't going to reveal the meaning behind the title of an episode until more than halfway through, maybe don't make it the name of a person?

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 16: Alpha

One thing I had observed in seasons five and six was that for the most part, the episode quality had vastly improved over the early seasons. The good episodes have always been good, but the bad ones in seasons one and two were a combination of forgettable and unforgettably atrocious.

'Alpha' reminded me of some of those runs of awful episodes in the first two seasons.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 15: Arcadia

I can't really tell if this was a pro-Mulder/Scully episode or a very anti-Mulder/Scully episode. Either way, they pretended to be a married couple and they were hilarious about it.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 14: Monday

It's Groundhog Day! Only less silly. And less well paced.

But it is Monday. A lot.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 13: Agua Mala

What the fuck did I just watch?

The X-Files Season 6, Episodes 11/12: Two Fathers/One Son

So, new plots now, right? It looks like we get all the resolution we'll ever need to the plots of the first five seasons in 'Two Fathers' and 'One Son'.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 10: Tithonus

It is a testament to the great writing of this series that they can recycle ideas and turn them into a pretty spectacular episode.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 9: S.R. 819

Another Skinner episode? And it's gross and veiny? Actually, the skin effects reminded me of the 'Fringe' pilot episode. I'm not even sure what to think of this one at this point. We'll probably have to revisit it later and see how it connects to events that happen over the rest of the series.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 8: The Rain King

There is nothing about 'The Rain King' that wasn't weird. It wasn't bad, but it was really really strange.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 7: Terms of Endearment

Well, this was uncomfortable and kind of gross, wasn't it? 'Terms of Endearment' wasn't bad, just super uncomfortable all the time.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 6: How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

I think this was a Christmas episode as only The X-Files can do it. It was also pretty amazing.

The X-Files Season 6, Episodes 4/5: Dreamland

What the fuck did I just watch?

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 3: Triangle

Yes! Time travel! Only not really? Either way, another brilliant episode to start off season six.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 2: Drive

OK, this was an outstanding and super tense episode. It reminded me somewhat of two Fringe episodes, 'The Box' in one particular way that, like in that episode, didn't initially make sense to me, but later turned out to be kind of awesome and 'Johari Window' in a slightly more apparent way.

The X-Files Season 6, Episode 1: The Beginning

The Beginning. Welcome back to the regular old small screen X-Files, where everything is a disaster right from the start! This felt like mostly an establishing episode, since I would assume the movie was expected to bring in some new fans. So we get re-introduced to a lot of the characters and plots and sets - which are new sets in L.A. now.