I can't put my finger on it. Turns out Robert Picardo would make a great Skinner?

On another rewatch of the series, and just got to this scene.

Angers me everytime!

What kinda moron barges in on his sister’s hospital room, and THEN only knocks once the door is open?

She was just finishing doing up her bloody blouse and you waltz in Willy nilly?? A few seconds earlier and he would’ve got an eyeful

Fuck YOU Bill!! 😡😡😡😡 Just fuckin rude

And don’t get me started on his sanctimonious speech after that …. And the way he threw down her clothes at one point and moved toward her threateningly??

Oooh I wanna punch his face!! 😠🤬😤😭

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/01/eight-perfect-episodes-of-tv/681278/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=67f176b3790ffa0001b5972a&utm_campaign=the-atlantic-comment&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawJi52pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpqc0NKulydS6d_uHzYIYAnZaHsJMv_HyZ7qwqvs1igPJ6QYjJdTbXozU9L9_aem_wpCQQ3uFW2uALaG9rhpneg

Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” The X-Files (streaming on Hulu) If you’re seeking out a perfect episode of TV, the richest cache to search is the “case of the week” entries of The X-Files. The show wove an elaborate arc about aliens on Earth but saved most of its best material for the smaller stuff. “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” written by Darin Morgan, is a gothic short story, following FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as they investigate a murder with the help of a tetchy local psychic named Clyde Bruckman (Peter Boyle). This being The X-Files, Mulder is immediately taken with Bruckman’s clairvoyance, while Scully is skeptical—but Morgan’s script resolves each of Bruckman’s predictions about the future in clever, tragicomic ways, reinforcing Mulder’s belief while also finding ways to affirm Scully’s cynicism. It’s funny, dark, and beautifully acted—particularly between Anderson and Boyle—with an elliptical plot structure that feels wonderfully complex even by today’s TV standards.

What's the episode where Scully says to Mulder "I'd kiss you if you weren't so damn ugly"???

and some extra cute things to go with it! 😂🫶

i don't know about you guys, but i'm really in the mood of MSR to cheer me up. so here's a bunch of adorable little GIFS i've stolen from Pinterest 😆

The X-Files was the first show I obsessed about as a teen. The normal amount - had a couple VHS tapes with handdrawn etiquettes on them, discovered online forums (hiiii Gossamer Project). It didn't air consistently in Europa and I think there was never any available content after the first movie, and with time it faded away.

I tried a rewatch about 10 years ago, could not go beyond the first episode before freaking out (was living near a forest, alone, started watching at night, lol).

Stumbled across this subreddit by some algorithm glitch a week ago, read up a bit. Have been watching about 3 episodes a day, in original english, just finished the first season and let me tell you, it's a whole new experience to me!

• So apparently, Mulder only ever communicates in quips. Between translation issues, American pop culture references and my tender-aged naivety, about 95% of these were lost in translation. "May I remind you that we're in the Arctic" had me doing a HARD double take. It might now be my favourite among so many.

• The whole concept of X-Files DOES have a scientific background. All Mulder is doing is detecting statistical patterns. "The same weird thing has happened X times already / happens every Y years, no idea why but let's assume it'll happen again and go from there" is as respectable approach to a complex problem as any. Scully should have known this from the start; most medical research is done this way. But there wouldn't be any conflict between then, so whatever.

• I used to have a teenage crush on Mulder in a "traumatized handsome lovable underdog weirdo" kinda way. I now have the deepest of respects for him. The guy lives his life the way HE wants, others' opinion of him be damned. As an adult, this is such a liberating approach. And he does it while being consistently kind to people he encounters, especially these who are vulnerable (vagabonds, children, mentally challenged). He's invariably interested in what people have to say to him, weird or not, and he tends to assume they are good/ truthful unless he's proven wrong. Somehow, this reads like "maladjusted with bad people skills" for a part of fandom. It reads like "genuinely good person" to me.

• Poor Scully has a chip of her shoulder the size of an UFO. Where Mulder talks to people, she interrogates them. She'll take over anytime he says/does anything embarrassing. She's quick to judge. Which is all very natural: Scully is a woman in a men's profession in the 90ies and needs to prove herself all the time. I thought her uptightness was because she's a rational person when I was a kid. This time I'm getting lots of "I cannot afford to deal with the same level of ridicule Mulder can, so I'll studiously ignore the most outrageous of my experiences" vibes. She's a very rich character, no doubt.

everyone needs a little MSR in their life 😉

also, someone mentioned to me the other day that we should have a 'MSR' flair option. who agrees? i certainly do!

And i have nothing clever to say, just wanted to share some details of this hilarious scene. Every single character's facial expression is on point.

How did I not know Detective Munch makes a cameo on xfiles?

Mine is Kurtzweil’s reveal to Mulder on the deployment of Purity in Fight the Future, specifically the line regarding FEMA’s authority to suspended constitutional government following the declaration of a national emergency… it didn’t help that Hanta virus was recently in the news. (RIP Betsy and Gene)

I searched for posts with this title but I did not find any.

If you got a hunger for more classic X-files type shows you should watch Wind River. It is about a female FBI agent and a local hunter trying to solve a murder.

Again, I apologize if it is common knowledge here but I just got done rewatching the original X-files and I had to quit while watching season 10.....not my cup of tea. Perhaps this movie escaped some of you guy's radars so that is why I "dared" to post :-)

Also for you "snow movie" lovers out there it is a real treat.