The X-Files 2018

Double feature tonight!

Episodes 8 “Familliar” and 9 “Nothing Lasts Forever”.

Episode 8 will be on at 8:15 pm GMT+1 (after which I use the gap to episode 9 to write down my thoughts here) while Episode 9 is on at 11:15 pm GMT+1 so they can show it uncut.
That means it will be between eleven and midnight in western europe when I can write about that one so if anyone is still awake then, you´ll get a double feature too, tonight!

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Hooray :slightly_smiling_face: I doubt I’ll be awake then but look forward to reading your thoughts tomorrow. I think I wrote my (spoilered) review on those ones up there ^^ so I’ll remind myself. I know I liked ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’.

Yes, you did! I´ve bookmaked all the spoilered ones for when it´s my turn. :slight_smile:

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I just found it and did the same :slightly_smiling_face:

I didn’t review the finale just in case. So I’ll have to rely on my memory for that one (crap).

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Episode 9 Familiar:

Meh. Was a bit pedestrian, the resolution felt a bit rushed. We had black wolves, a creepy/hilarious mask and teletubbies that looked like Dark Elves.

I don´t know, this episode really didn´t do anything for me. Maybe I don´t get much out of the X-Files when they take topics like witchcraft as serious as this, anymore.

4 out of 10 pencils thrown up the office ceiling from me for this one.

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Me neither. It was okay, but a bit meh.

:nerd_face:

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Wasn´t that even in Stephen King´s episode “Chinga” where he did that? I love the fact that they stuck with it. Even at the beginning of season 10 when he moved into his otherwise empty office, they still were there. :smile:

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Yeah :slightly_smiling_face: I loved it when they came tumbling down afterwards.

It was a good long-standing joke, heheh.

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Righty, 15 more minutes until I watch “Nothing Lasts Forever” the episode that is considered to brutal for german prime time, apparently.

I think the reason that it was deemed so, and the fact that I enjoyed it lots, are not mutually exclusive.

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Sounds great! :smirk_cat:

On the other hand though, I was geniunly shocked on monday by Ash vs Evil dead. The massacring of dozens of unpossesed(!) high school students by a doppelganger of our hero was something that caught me off guard in a series that´s usually mostly funny. :nauseated_face:

Hm, yeah. Sounds a bit close to the mark. I want to watch that series though. Once I finish The Americans. Which coincidentally featured The Twilight Zone by Golden Earring in the one I saw the other night! :ghost:

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There is an actress called Fiona Vroom in this episode. Who does she play, a motorbike?

:laughing: I think I noticed that. I’d love that to be my name. Although it does have a bit of a porn star ring to it.

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(unfortunatly discourse doesn´t have a smiley with a ´stache…)

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Actually she has played in Power Rangers and Star Trek. The interesting thing is, that there is only an Italian Wikipedia page about her life…

Does she vaguely look like a slender Christina Hendricks? Because if so she is the definite highlight of this episode!

Decide yourself:

Yep, that´s her. But it might have been the kind of makeup that made her look like that (well, and the red hair).

So tonight´s second episode was sort of a mix between a David Cronenberg like (e.g. Dead Ringers) body horror story mixed with the classical elements of the Elizabeth Bathory tale.

That actress was really great, I liked the meth junkie shelter like atmsophere of the holdup that contrasted with the stylised madness of the aged actress living in the past like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard.

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Stop rambling, Milan. You´re not a movie critic!

Oh okay…sorry dear departed sir! :open_mouth:

Anyway, that final dialogue between the two was really nice and unexpected. They really seem to lead to the end.

Yup, two sewn together thumb ups from me! :slight_smile:

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