Tag Archives: conspiracy

An X-Files Retrospective, Part 10

15 Mar

Millennium- Season 3 Watching Millennium’s final season, it’s easy to see why the show got cancelled. Though it had great actors and great writing and some pretty chilling procedural drama, it changed its style every single season, something I’m sure alienated viewers when the show was on the air. The first season was a very [...]

An X-Files Retrospective, Part 9

7 Mar

The X-Files- Season 6 SPOILER ALERT The sixth season of The X-Files picks up right where the movie left off, with Mulder and Scully presenting their findings to a group of directors at the FBI, a very elegant way to recap what happened in Fight the Future. Season premiere “The Beginning” is extra cool because [...]

An X-Files Retrospective, Part 6

15 Jan

In case you hadn’t figured it our already, SPOILER ALERT. The X-Files: Fight the Future At long last I reach the first X-Files film, often subtitled “Fight the Future.” I have a very vivid memory of seeing this movie in the theaters on opening night, and seeing it again left me awash with nostalgia. I [...]

An X-Files Retrospective, Part 5

10 Jan

I’m actually getting close to finishing the first season of Millennium (finally). Expect a review of that shortly. The X-Files- Season 5 Season 5 is undoubtedly the best season of The X-Files to date, and if I was to venture a guess, I’d say it’s probably the best overall. There’s nary a bad installment in [...]

Alex’s Best of 2010, Day One- Television

23 Dec

And so it begins! To be honest, this is my favorite time of the year because it gives me an excuse to indulge in one of my greatest pleasures: list-making. I kick things off with my Top 10 television episodes of the year. 2010 was an exciting, if uneven year for television. The dead walked, [...]

Wormhole in a Basement- The Event Recap

26 Oct

I really want to love The Event, and while its first season has been less than perfect, it has been engaging enough to get me excited each Monday night. I learned of two television writers who live blog comments about the show via Twitter, along the lines of Mystery Science Theater 3000. At first they [...]

An X-Files Retrospective, Part 1

9 May

About a month or two ago Netflix added several iconic TV shows to their instant viewing service, including possibly the most influential sci-fi series of all time, Chris Carter’s The X-Files. I had been waiting for this to happen: an opportunity to watch the series, from beginning to end, every single episode. Netflix just handed [...]

FlashForward Gasps Its Final Breaths

2 Apr

Before the start of the season, I was convinced FlashForward was going to be year’s best new series. It had an intriguing premise- catastrophic event causes everyone in world to black out for two minutes and seventeen seconds; those that aren’t killed see a moment from the future six months later. It had some cool [...]