At the height of it's creativity and popularity this series delivered some excellent "monsters of the week" stories, engaging conspiracy stories with nail-biting cliffhangers, memorable villains and some surprising humoristic moments. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson was a duo on everyone's lips. Running around in dark corridors and hiding in Gothic houses became popular again. The three first seasons delivered some of the most excellent TV moments in history. Iconic theme music took us right into the atmosphere of the show. The main story became confusing and there was no true ending in sight which meant that the conspiracy only added more and more layers with tons of secrets, misinformation and cryptic messages making the head explode for even the most devoted fan. Later individual episodes would bring back some magic but for every new season the true nature of the show went further and further away from it's core and instead it became individual ideas and separate stories that became fun to watch (and even the episodes that made fun of itself) while the conspiracy and the characters became annoying as they repeated their own mistakes or didn't really progress at all that much during the years. Episodes then were tedious to be honest, dripping with self-aware seriousness and a wish to be taken more serious than it should be. Series became more refreshing at the end when they started to shake the formula by giving supporting characters more to do and letting the two in the main cast take episodes off the show for longer parts of the show, but the magic was lost.
Review by Dan GigernesBlockedParent2019-11-10T10:48:39Z
At the height of it's creativity and popularity this series delivered some excellent "monsters of the week" stories, engaging conspiracy stories with nail-biting cliffhangers, memorable villains and some surprising humoristic moments. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson was a duo on everyone's lips. Running around in dark corridors and hiding in Gothic houses became popular again. The three first seasons delivered some of the most excellent TV moments in history. Iconic theme music took us right into the atmosphere of the show. The main story became confusing and there was no true ending in sight which meant that the conspiracy only added more and more layers with tons of secrets, misinformation and cryptic messages making the head explode for even the most devoted fan. Later individual episodes would bring back some magic but for every new season the true nature of the show went further and further away from it's core and instead it became individual ideas and separate stories that became fun to watch (and even the episodes that made fun of itself) while the conspiracy and the characters became annoying as they repeated their own mistakes or didn't really progress at all that much during the years. Episodes then were tedious to be honest, dripping with self-aware seriousness and a wish to be taken more serious than it should be. Series became more refreshing at the end when they started to shake the formula by giving supporting characters more to do and letting the two in the main cast take episodes off the show for longer parts of the show, but the magic was lost.