Here are 10 favourites you can watch to give yourself and otherworldly fright.ġ) “Squeeze” (season one, episode three) Lately, we’ve been focusing our binge-watch efforts on the monster-of-the-week episodes that scared us so bad we might as well say they scarred us”because they’re still giving us nightmares. So far, X-Files Albuquerque has no release date.These are strange days we’re living in, which makes it the perfect time to revisit The X-Files. Without original writer Darin Morgan involved, it's hard to predict how humorous the series will be, but it does seem to be aiming directly for the kind of great offbeat comedy the series was sometimes known for. While the X-Files will never return to its former format or with its original players, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, the new animated spin-off has creator Chris Carter attached. The episode is certainly the funniest X-Files plot, utilizing the Rashomon structure the series liked to adopt, telling the same narrative from multiple points of view and drawing a lot of comedy from the differences. The episode features a lot of ridiculous twists, such as The Sweet Potato Pie Interrogation, in which Mulder interrogates a cook while eating sweet potato pie. Scully believes the incident to be date rape since the woman was discovered naked, but when Mulder puts the victim under hypnosis she accounts for an alien abduction. Jose Chung’s From Outer Space follows author Joe Chung as he researches the abduction of a teenage couple and speaks with Agent Scully to get more information. Like in the episode The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat, the show appears to reflect on itself and its place in the world. As with many of Morgan’s installments, this episode is the perfect mix of bizarre and funny. Jose Chung’s From Outer Space is another classic episode written by the loyal and funny X-Files writer, Darin Morgan. Here are the funniest X-Files episodes, ranked. However, before even contemplating the new show, it’s important to look at the old gems that are a part of the original. According to Josh Reilly’s article, The X-Files Transition From Horror to Comedy, one of the “core strengths of is its ability to shift genres” and the “amount of forays into comedy increased considerably as the show went on.” Apparently, the show holds so much potential for humor that as of 2020, Fox started developing an animated comedy spin-off called X-Files: Albuquerque. Carter inserted his experience in comedy into his writing for The X-Files and established the perfect balance of mystery and humor. That being said, The X-Files certainly isn’t all doom and gloom. In a CBR interview by Brett White and Albert Ching, Carter explains that the show had so much appeal to audiences because of the “residual mistrust of the government that came with the Watergate era.” Since then, Carter believes that people have become even more “suspicious of the people who are in charge” due to inconsistent actions by the government, institutions, and the media. The essential piece which grounded the show and ultimately made it so successful was Scully’s scientific skepticism. John Mack, who specialized in schizophrenia, and came to determine that “three percent of Americans believe they have actually been abducted by UFOs.” In Ted Edwards' book X-Files Confidential, Carter admits that although he wrote comedies for a long time, his heart was always “in scary, dramatic, thriller writing.” The idea for X-Files took shape when Carter spoke with his psychologist friend, Dr. Shortly after, he came up with the premise for The X-Files. Screenwriter Chris Carter was developing light-hearted comedies for Walt Disney Studios when he was offered a position to produce new shows for Fox.
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