Tag: The X Files
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The X-Files: A Return
According to IMDb, The X-Files first aired in the U.K. on 19th September, 1994 – which is pretty much half a lifetime ago. No other TV show has stuck in the mind to anywhere near the extent The X-Files has. Why should this be so? What is it about this particular TV show that has…
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The Post-modern Prometheus
‘The Post-modern Prometheus’, from Season Five of the X-Files presents us with something of a controversy. The plot involves a doctor working in isolation on the Hox gene – the gene which ensures that the correct structures form in the correct places within a body. Unbeknownst to said doctor, his father has been conducting experiments of his own,…
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Strange Liberals
An article for the Pacific Standard from 2019 asks the question: Why is Hollywood so Liberal? This article, by Tom Jacobs, opens thus: “The worlds of movies, television, and theater are overwhelmingly populated by political liberals”. This claim is supported, as indeed Jacobs so supports it with an embedded link, by an article in the…
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Hosting the Language
The second episode of Season Two of the X Files, ‘The Host’, is generally regarded as a classic episode, favourably remembered for its iconic monster-of-the-week. Misleadingly, the title doesn’t refer to the creature but its victims. In actual fact, then, there is no single character in the episode to whom the title refers. The host is…
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