Pilot (Season 1, Episode 1)Ĭhris Carter’s sci-fi gets off to exactly the start you’d expect, with Agent Dana Scully assigned to work with Agent Fox “Spooky” Mulder, who has a reputation for being weirdly obsessed with aliens (because his sister, Samantha, disappeared when he was 12) – just the kind of quality you look for in a co-worker.
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Is that enough to understand the show? And what more can I discover from just 21 hours of a series that spanned almost a decade?įrom what I learned in each episode to whether they’re worth watching in the first place, this is a first-timer’s guide to The X-Files, written by an actual first-timer. I went in knowing one thing: The X-Files is about two FBI agents, Mulder and Scully. Because someone out there has got to help all of us X-Files newcomers. Is it really possible to just watch those 21 episodes and make sense of the whole show in time for the new series? I put the theory to the test. I ended up with a list of 21 out of a total 202 episodes – a sort of top 10 per cent of The X-Files, if you will. Now, though, like many people who missed out on David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson’s heyday, I’ve been asking myself the same question ahead of the new series: do I need to have seen the old X-Files before I see the new X-Files? And, if so, which episodes should I watch?Īnd so I went crawling back to my friends, the ones who had all seen The X-Files, and asked which episodes were the essential ones to watch. It didn’t seem to matter that all I knew of The X-Files I had basically gleaned from The Simpsons. But it’s 2016 and, well, I was busy in the 1990s. It would be understandable if this were 1996, when the show was at its peak – a time when Twitter didn’t exist, so there was no online place to share our excitement about strange monsters and David Duchovny’s facial expression. The shock would continue for several minutes.
“What do you mean, you haven’t seen The X-Files?” That’s what everyone I know has been saying to me since Fox announced it was bringing back its sci-fi series for a limited six-episode run.
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