1/24/16

X-Files: Is the Truth Still Out There?

I am not certain people are still looking for the same truths that Mulder and Scully are seeking in Fox's X-Files.  After nine seasons and multiple movies about UFOs and alien abductions, if they haven't found what they are looking for do we really thing six more episodes starting tonight will wrap it up?  And is anyone still looking with them? 

Why Fox is bringing back this old show is anyone's guess.  Okay, one guess - lack of new ideas?

The Hollywood Report has this to say:

The problem with reopening The X-Files is two fold. First, the actors, not their characters, don't seem to have their hearts in it. (That probably wasn't the intention, but it's the perceived result.) And, second, Carter's dialogue is prone to exposition (again, partly the result of only having six episodes to work with) and overheated soliloquies. How that combination sucks the life out of this whole enterprise can't be underscored enough.

Maybe we know the truth already. Some stories are well enough left alone. 

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