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THE X-FILES
January 3, 2018  | By David Bianculli

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

SEASON PREMIERE: Fox sent six of the 10 episodes of this Season 11 of The X-Files for preview, and those six, beginning with tonight’s mythology-continuing episode, pretty much fall into line with previous years. The mythology itself, the show’s intermittent tale of alien visitations and government conspiracies, starts off as the driest and most disappointing element. The stand-alone “monster of the week” episodes are more enjoyable, and truer to the show’s most successful element, and the weird playful ones, at least the one included in the critics’ sampler, shine most brightly of all. So watch, especially, for writer-director Darin Morgan’s “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” on Jan. 24, and enjoy all the fun it has with The Twilight Zone, and All the President’s Men, and so, so much more. But tonight, The X-Files resumes with “My Struggle III,” which resolves last season’s cliffhanger about the future (and past) of Gillian Anderson’s Scully. For a full review, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.

 
 
 
 
 
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