#THE X FILES SEASON 10 SERIES#
#THE X FILES SEASON 10 TV#

The militarization of the countryвЂ™s police? The drugs in our increasingly fake food and drink? The escalating instability of our weather due to global warming? All part of an organized assault on the increasingly fat and distracted global populace.

#THE X FILES SEASON 10 SERIES#

So Carter updates his series by shifting the emphasis away from the alien invasion that drove the вЂњmythologyвЂќ episodes of the original run toward one-percenters, who are using alien technology to fashion a corporate takeover of the world while people watch Kim Kardashian on YouTube.

#THE X FILES SEASON 10 TV#

In the films and TV of earlier eras, it was hinted that corruption lingered in high places, but thatвЂ™s now accepted by everyone as a matter of course, leading to the sort of nihilistic fervor that spawns, say, Donald TrumpвЂ™s infuriatingly relevant run for President of the United States. In 2016, вЂњanxietyвЂќ hardly covers the fevered hostility that most nurse toward their government, whether theyвЂ™re conservative or progressive. The old The X-Files relied heavily on 1970s-era conspiracy-film tropes (most prominently meetings with rotating Deep Throats in shadowy hallways and parking lots) as a fashion for expressing post-Cold War anxiety about the vast amorality of our so-called public servants. HowвЂ™s an old warhorse to compete?Д«y rendering said media organism the new villain, of course. ItвЂ™s aged surprisingly well, but we now live in a time in which meta-event television is taken for granted as merely one cell among a larger media organism. A tentative pall hangs over this season premiere/series reboot that distractingly boils down to: вЂњCan we pull this off?вЂќ The X-Files originally ran from 1993 to 2002, and itвЂ™s a series that belongs very much to the 1990s, bridging Unsolved Mysteries with The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Twin Peaks, and many others to fashion a distinct mixture of political intrigue and paranormal wildness. Mulder and ScullyвЂ™s sex appeal, a mixture of rock-star ennui and white-collar-drone earnestness, is greatly depended upon in вЂњMy Struggle,вЂќ a self-consciously tepid attempt on creator Chris CarterвЂ™s part to introduce The X-Files to 2016.

After all, a decadeвЂ™s worth of failed attempts at bringing about international government accountability for its involvement in an unthinkably vast extraterrestrial conspiracy can leave one feeling a little, well, alienated.

Time has been good to David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, who are as attractive and charismatic as theyвЂ™ve ever been, perhaps even more so, partially because their appearances are tinged with an evocative resignation that speaks of experience, which they instinctively, logically channel into their career-defining characters, X-Files agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

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