Sometimes it does get slow, but it always remains interesting. Though it has gotten more Hollywood-ish, it's a testament to the creators and writers that they haven't put Scully and Mulder together (will they or won't they? Probably. This show doesn't always give you what you want. It pays homage to old shows, and movies as well ("Duel in the Sun", "Rope"). The byplay between Mulder and Scully is cool and reserved, yet you wonder exactly what there really thinking. The sexual tension is what probably has attracted the most people. It is a mystery, a sci-fi, and sometimes self parody, and the show has several markedly sexual overtones (the cigarette smoking man). But when it peaks, like with "Redux", "Triangle", and "One Son", it peaks like no other show has before. Admittedly it was once a better show than it is now, but most episodes are minor masterpieces. Fourteen years after the closure of the X-Files, Agent Mulder (David Duchovny) is reuinted with Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and the pair begin investigating strange occurrences that have the. It is a cinematic show, using techniques that are more associated with movies than the tv show (like the long unedited sequence in Triangle). With Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Mitch Pileggi, William B. The X-Files ranks as one of the most intelligent and brilliant shows on television. According to my friends, I am not a true X-phile (don't ask why).
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