The X-Files Season 4, Episodes 8/9: Tunguska/Terma

In Soviet Russia, Alex Krycek betrays everyone (seriously, he is the worst triple agent ever), as always, and loses his arm for his troubles. Maybe he should get together with Lindsey McDonald. They'd make a great team of pompous double crossing assholes with a grand total of two hands between them. Maybe Wolfram and Hart can give Krycek an evil hand, too!

And Mulder makes some epically bad decisions, one of which is trusting Krycek for even half a second, and nearly pays with his life, while Scully makes some questionable decisions and pays with her freedom.

Well, this is a huge disaster already, isn't it?

The X-Files Season 4, Episode 7: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

For an episode titled, 'Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man', this was remarkably more obtuse than a lot of previous episodes. I kind of expected that maybe we'd learn something about him, and while we did, I don't know that we really learned anything particularly useful.

Either way, I think this was clearly an unusual episode, both in its presentation and its content, as compared to the rest of the series so far.

The X-Files Friday Feature: Death Eaters

Why Death Eaters? Well, that's a good question, really. Why, indeed.

Yeah, I've been throwing this term around, and I don't know if I've fully explained my insistence on it.

The X-Files Season 4, Episode 6: Sanguinarium

Don't say no to the Incredible Medicine Show!

Cosmetic surgery gone horribly wrong in the most bloody and gory way possible? And witchcraft? Must be The X-Files.

The X-Files Season 4, Episode 5: The Field Where I Died

I think we're in a stretch of episodes I don't really get?

This one is pretty bizarre, and as in some others, ends with a complete failure by Mulder and Scully to actually save any potential victims (and there are a LOT in this one) but only a lot of philosophical poetry recitation on Mulder's part.

Actually, it starts with the philosophising, doesn't it? (And ends with it.)