Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Perhaps one of the reasons that X-Files' modern-era mythology episodes don't land well (aside from them also being a turgid mess) is that the show, now decades removed from its heyday, works best when it's lovingly skewering itself and presenting us with parody.
Season 10's "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," was arguably (though I have a fairly strong argument) the best chapter of that 2016 run, and a big part of its success rested with the stars, their chemistry, and how much fun it seemed like they were having cutting loose, free from the usual bump-in-the-night dourness. As we've witnessed with latter day X-Files, there are definitely moments where it feels like Duchovny and Anderson "show up" more than others. Such was the case, this year, with "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" - an outrageously funny, outside-looking-in chapter that explored/skewered the phenomenon known as the Mandela Effect (or is it the Mengele Effect? or am having a Mengele Effect about the Mandela Effect?)
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Perhaps one of the reasons that X-Files' modern-era mythology episodes don't land well (aside from them also being a turgid mess) is that the show, now decades removed from its heyday, works best when it's lovingly skewering itself and presenting us with parody.
Season 10's "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," was arguably (though I have a fairly strong argument) the best chapter of that 2016 run, and a big part of its success rested with the stars, their chemistry, and how much fun it seemed like they were having cutting loose, free from the usual bump-in-the-night dourness. As we've witnessed with latter day X-Files, there are definitely moments where it feels like Duchovny and Anderson "show up" more than others. Such was the case, this year, with "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" - an outrageously funny, outside-looking-in chapter that explored/skewered the phenomenon known as the Mandela Effect (or is it the Mengele Effect? or am having a Mengele Effect about the Mandela Effect?)
Continue reading…
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