New 'X-Files' trailer encourages 201 days of binge-watching

Personal life

Anderson married her first husband, Clyde Klotz, The X-Files series assistant art director, on New Year’s Day 1994, in Hawaii in a Buddhist ceremony. They had a daughter, Piper Maru (born September 1994), for whom Chris Carter named the X-Files episode of the same name, and divorced in 1997.[42] In December 2004, Anderson married Julian Ozanne, a documentary filmmaker, on Lamu Island, off the coast of Kenya. Anderson announced their separation on April 21, 2006.[43] Anderson and former boyfriend, Mark Griffiths, have two sons: Oscar, born November 2006[44] and Felix, born October 2008.[45] She ended their relationship in 2012.[46] In March 2012, Anderson told Out magazine about her past relationship with a girl while in high school.[47] Anderson “...said she first experimented with women during her rebellious teenaged years, when she moved from England to the United States.”[48]

Anderson’s brother died in 2011 of a brain tumor, at the age of 30.[48][49]
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The x-Files episode, “Agua_Mala”, (Darrin McG, guest) was one that will be forever remembered. LOL after viewing that one wanted nothing to do with water for months on end. Loved The Night Stalker (original)

Outer Limits, an ok series....one years prior was good in its time but did not hold up well over the years. Alcoa Presents “One Step Beyond”. That one is still seen on occasion. And let’s not forget ‘Science Fiction Theater’ with Truman Bradley hosting. Still remember the episode that featured living lights from Venus? Gave me nightmares as a child.

I take it as a cool thing for a lib to say to a homosexual publication. Maybe she really had such a relationship, but that’s brownie points in Hollywood. Granted, I’m a little sexist; if Duchovny said he had a sexual relationship with a male in high school, I’d consider him hopelessly gay (it’s the old Andrew “Dice” Clay, “If you commit a gay act, you’re gay,” standard). And, yes, Dice’s phrase has been heavily cleaned up there!

Never watched the X-Files, but I’m watching nightly on Netflix to get prepared. I’ve watched Kolchak, Supernatural (became too left-wing partisan and I came to despise it), Grimm and other of these genre shows, but this one has has some of the only episodes that were actually disturbing to me. The humanoid parasitic worm, the Satanic substitute teacher, the geek who ate the detached Siamese twin, and the one I saw last night about the boy who’s stillborn twin murdered most of his family. Really unsettling stuff.

Look for episodes of The Lone Gunman too. This is especially important. That show was so far ahead of its time that it accurately predicted the use of a heavy commercial passenger jet as a means of destroying the World Trade Center.

There was an episode devoted to precisely that. More to the point, it was also ahead of its time because the plane was controlled remotely through a hack. A vulnerability in the planes flight control systems. This is something that is front and center of airline safety and security people as we speak.

Be sure to look up The Lone Gunman.

X-Files is STILL ahead of its time - as we speak. There’s one about a boy who can conduct lightning that essentially references both the physiology of eels and Nikola Tesla.

The pilot is still one of the best - the coma kid who would awake to aid aliens in abducting his classmates.

Wait until you see Purity Control. Thanks to you, Gillian Anderson is back on my list of five I get a pass from my wife. Antonio Banderas just went back on the market, so I have him to worry about on her side.

I have two X-Files CD’s from back in the day. Music from the show. Amazing stuff you won’t hear anywhere else. Haunting disturbing stuff - just the mainstream music they picked.

Anyway, I can’t wait for the show to come back.

Far and away, the most disturbing episode ever is ‘Blood’. The end will give you permanent goose bumps. Way, way ahead of its time for the day, and it is likely happening in one form or another as we speak. You can safely skip ahead and watch that episode without injuring your progress on the longer plotline if you want.

Definitely worth skipping ahead for ‘Blood’. Let me know what you think when you are done. I’ve seen it a dozen times (I own the VCR tape) and I still get the chills watching it.

I saw Blood. William Sanderson was good as the nebbish who is driven to become the next Charles Whitman. I wonder if the evil driving that is related to the evil spirit that animated the boy’s stillborn twin to kill his brother, father, and grandmother.

The whole early run of season two was great. I watch Castle and they do a status quo shakeup every now and then that lasts about two episodes and doesn’t fool anybody (Beckett’s quitting the force?! Oh, she’s back). They really sold the dissolution of the Mulder/Scully partnership and the shelving of the X-files by having it play out so long. Even though we knew it was temporary, they made it feel permanent for the characters. And, they used just the right amount of episodes from the abduction at the end of the Duane Barry two-parter through One Breath to really sell Scully’s ordeal.

I’ll watch the Lone Gunmen, but it’ll be a while. I think that ran alongside season 9 and I’m just approaching Soft Light. That’s the reason I started watching the X-Files, to see Vince Gilligan’s work before Breaking Bad/Saul.

A friend of mine also has a free pass list with his wife. His has people I’ve never heard of—who’s Mindy Smith?—but I can see Gillian as a candidate. Rather Dana Scully, who we will assume is much more conservative than her portrayer!

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