Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in "Mulder & Scully Meet the Were-Monster", episode three of the new X-Files miniseries. (credit: Ed Araquel/FOX)
Warning: The following review contains minor spoilers to the first three episodes of the X-Files miniseries.
The first episode of the new X-Files miniseries includes some striking images of aliens and alien spacecraft. We see the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico “UFO crash” (I want to believe), an alien desperately trying to crawl away from some evil humans, and a modern-day alien reproduction vehicle (ARV) that can disappear in a flash. This isn’t unusual for the X-Files, a show about alien government conspiracies and paranormal sightings, but something is different this time. This new series' nature is all stark and obvious—no mystery, no buildup, no real suspense. In the original 1990s series, the audience desperately wanted to see aliens, to have the show confirm their existence, but we were fed teasers and snippets. The plotlines burned slowly (usually). And we hung out (some of us for nine seasons), desperate to find out the truth.
It seems that the truth at the end of this new, six-episode miniseries on Fox is that the X-Files closed a long time ago. It’s apparently painful to try to bring them back. I hope I am proven wrong; I have only seen the first three episodes of the new series, which premieres on Sunday. The next three episodes could very well be mind-blowing television. Again, I want to believe. But if that’s the case, the miniseries has a lot of work to do.
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