Chance for aging former porn stars to connect for old times sake.
I watched the first two episodes and couldn’t believe how bad it was, The dialogue was stilted and strained. The screenplay was.... just bizarre.
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Maybe David is all Californicated out.
It’s an alien and it has replaced the real actor. /sarc.
Like Lily Van Schtoop, they’re tired.
I have been watching the original via Netflix. I am nearing the end of Season 2.
Even then, the Mulder character was rather low key. The X-Files did not seem to be a ‘action’ series, even then.
The episode Monday night was a “goof”. It was written that way.
I think people are expecting way too much out the show. If you remember the last couple seasons it had grown pretty long in the tooth.
Monday night was the first time in ages my ice was actually laughing out loud at a TV show. That is rare.
Completely agree. First and second episodes were garbage, bad acting and writing. Third seemed a little better. It could be my standards have gotten higher since the original run, a lot of great writing since then on TV and maybe they were always this bad, and I am just miss-remembering them being better.
Freegards
On a different topic, has anyone watched “Better Call Saul,” the spinoff from “Breaking Bad?” I read all kinds of praises for it, but I’ve watched a few episodes and it seems like a jumbled mess of unfunny cliches to me.
I agree, it’s terrible. I knew it was going to be hard given so much of the older series revolved around the Mulder/Scully relationship. Hard to pull that off with both stars pushing 50 but now it comes across like she’s “it’s ok grampa, we had fun once doing this” while he’s ready for the couch.
I thought the “werehuman” was an interesting inversion of the usual. That is was Murray from Flight of the Conchords didn’t hurt either.
Just be glad it doesn’t totally suck like the revival of Arrested Development.
My wife watched the original incarnation, but I only saw a couple of episodes. Thought they were OK, but didn’t want to invest too much time to TV at the time.
Saw the most recent episode and enjoyed it enough to try again next week.
Different strokes, as they say...
The first one was interesting, and the second one jumped the shark doing what you noted throughout the show!
Had episode 1 schefuled to record but Fox screwed the timing up. Tried watching it but it totally sucks. Would have been better bringing in fresh talent, stopped recordings.
The old X-Files was pretty hit and miss too. Some great episodes, but also many stinkers. The reboot seems to be pretty much in the same mold. The main characters ARE older and definitely showing wear & tear, which makes it slightly more of a drag. So far, I think every reboot episode (in sequence) has been better than the last.
I understand how you feel.
I looked with great anticipation for this stuff?
After missing the episode on Monday night, was able to catch it next AM on the Roku. This was a bit strange and the changing from werehuman to werewolf to werelizard, to werehorned-toad was a bit freakish, but all in fun :-)) The best line of the evening/morning = “She hit like a man” And Fox, replied “She was a man”. Look forward to next Monday’s airing; but again, there will be other important happenings that evening as well. To each his own - here the series is like a vacation of sorts from the weird world in which we all live. Stepping from a real world upside down into a fantasy world with a plot of the world turned upside down.
We thought the last episode was really funny, the bits about what it’s like to be a lizard who gets bitten by a human and turns into one. Classic humor on modern day life.
Sort of glad there’s only six episodes though. I thought with the limited run they’d stick more to the main plot.