But why bring it back just for a few MOTW good episodes? It should've been aimed to compete with the best tv has to offer now. Sure, there were some decent, even really good, MOTW episodes here and there.

I believe this was in an effort, from the writers, to give the fans what they thought the fans wanted: the exact same thing from 20 years ago. The new X-Files episodes felt like it was mostly referential to the old X-Files episodes. The X-Files, but more specifically the mythology episodes, was great when it was referencing movies from the 70s and 80s (Close Encounters, Three Days of the Condor, Parallax View, All the President's Men, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Silence of the Lambs, etc.) with a twist. I didn't feel like those tv shows ended up influencing the new X-Files episodes at all. I was like 'YES!' If the new episodes were going to take cues from those shows, it could only mean good things. He mentioned shows like Mad Men, True Detective, Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Hannibal, The Fall. Mulder and Scully race to save an on-the-run William, in the season finale. There was some interview with Chris Carter (maybe during a Vancouver film festival? can't remember exactly), where he talks about his influences, and he is asked about what he had been watching recently. Start your free trial to watch The X-Files and other popular TV shows and. Specially in this age where there are so many great 'prestige' tv series. They wouldn't just bring it back for no good reason. When I first heard rumors The X-Files was coming back, I thought it meant they must have had something great in store for us the audience.

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