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A great example is Lost, which had ridiculous mythology involved, but makes for a fantastic bingewatch.
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Jamie: I definitely think I’d be singing a different tune if I was binge-watching today. Then again, this begs the question: Does the mythology become too much to keep up with when we try to bingewatch it today, or was it manageable when it originally aired week-to-week? The X-Files stems from an older era of television in which viewers - be it the hardcore fans or semi-regular watchers - weren’t always able to follow along every week. Otherwise you missed that episode until summer reruns.Īndrew: That’s a good point, especially with so much new television being about binge-watching - whether it’s all of Jessica Jones being dumped on Netflix at once, or the first season of Angie Tribeca airing on TBS in a single day. You know, back in ye olden tymes of having to record a show on a VHS tape and watch it in between reports, drama rehearsals, fan-fiction writing, etc. I specifically remember towards the end of the series, around the time Mulder left, that I couldn’t keep track of what was happening when I missed a week. But I think what happens with serialized plots like that is that they become so convoluted and complicated that it loses people. That was, yes, a very intriguing part of the series. Jamie: Eh, if we had never known about Mulder’s sister, I would have been fine with that. Maybe they added to Mulder and Scully’s character development, but at what cost to the former’s search for his sister, the conspiracy and so on? We could be watching an urban legend come to life, or something truly original.Īndrew: Sure, but did you ever get the impression that one-off episodes like “The Jersey Devil” were just a bit too far removed from the central arc of the show? I always felt like they were more of a distraction than an addition to the central story of the series. They get to head into really creepy territory and tell a unique - or classic - story. But I love the “monsters of the week” - “Home,” for starters. Jamie: I definitely acknowledge that the ongoing stories about Scully and Mulder give the characters depth and take us into more intimate, emotional territory. It’s not that I dislike one-offs like “Squeeze” or “X-Cops,” but I guess I’m way too fascinated with Chris Carter’s fictionalized alien conspiracies and little green men. To shed further light on these factions, Uproxx writers Jamie Frevele and Andrew Husband discuss the merits of both.Īndrew: Many fans of The X-Files like the mythology and monster-of-the-week episodes equally, but I’ve always preferred the former. With the six-episode X-Files revival upon us, an old division has resurfaced, the one between those who prefer episodes dealing with the show’s overarching mythology, and those who primarily enjoy the monster-of-the-week episodes.