X-Files is the American science fiction television drama series created by Chris Carter. The original television series aired from September 10, 1993, until May 19, 2002, at Fox. The program spans nine seasons, with 202 episodes. A short tenth episode of six episodes airs on January 24, 2016. After the ranking of the success of this awakening, Fox announced in April 2017 that The X-Files will return for the eleventh season of ten episodes. The premiere season on January 3, 2018. In addition to the television series, two widescreen films have been released: The 1998 film The X-Files, which took place as part of the continuity of the TV series, and the stand-alone movie The X-Files: I Want to Believe , was released in 2008, six years after the original television show ended.
The series revolves around the special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigating X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believed in the existence of aliens and paranormals while Scully, a medical doctor and a skeptic, was assigned to make a scientific analysis of Mulder's findings to disprove his work and thereby return it to major cases. At the start of the series, the two agents became pawns in the larger conflict and believed only one another and very few were elected. Agents also find the government's agenda for keeping the secret of extraterrestrial life. They develop a close relationship that begins as platonic friendship, but becomes a romance at the end of the series. In addition to the series range of story series, the episode "monster of the week" makes up about two thirds of all episodes.
The X-Files was inspired by a previous television series featuring elements of suspense and speculative fiction, including The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, > Tales from the Darkside , Twin Peaks , and especially Kolchak: The Night Stalker . When creating the main character, Carter sought to reverse gender stereotypes by making Mulder believe and Scully skeptical. The first seven seasons featured Duchovny and Anderson alike. In the last two seasons, Anderson takes precedence while Duchovny appears intermittently. New main characters are introduced: FBI agents John Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish). Boss Mulder and Scully, Assistant Director of Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), also became the main character. The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, before finally moving to Los Angeles to accommodate Duchovny. The series then returns to Vancouver to film The X-Files: I Want to Believe and the tenth and eleventh season of the series.
The X-Files was a hit for the Fox network and received very positive reviews, although the long-term story arc was criticized near the conclusion. Initially regarded as a cult series, it turns into a rock of pop culture culture that exploits public distrust of governments and large institutions and embraces conspiracy and spiritual theories. Both the series itself and the main actors Duchovny and Anderson received many awards and nominations, and in the end it is the oldest science fiction series in US television history. The series also spawned a franchise that includes The Lone Gunmen spin-off, two theatrical films and accompanying merchandise.
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Premise
General
The X-Files follows the career and personal life of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). Mulder is a talented profiler and strongly believes in supernatural matters. He also insisted on the existence of intelligent outdoor life and his presence on Earth. This set of beliefs gave him the nickname "Spooky Mulder" and an assignment to a lesser-known department that handled unsolved cases, known as X-Files. His belief in the paranormal arose from the abduction of his younger sister, Samantha Mulder, claimed by extraterrestrials when Mulder was 12 years old. His kidnapping made Mulder almost throughout the series. Because of this, as well as a more vague desire for justification and revelation of truth hidden by human authority, Mulder fought to maintain objectivity in his investigations.
Agent Scully is a foil for Mulder in this regard. As a medical doctor and a natural skeptic, Scully approached the case with complete detachment even when Mulder, despite his considerable training, lost his objectivity. He partnered with Mulder initially so that he could refute Mulder's unsuitable theory, often providing logical and scientific explanations for cases of 'seemingly unexplained phenomena'. Although he is often able to offer a scientific alternative to Mulder's deduction, he is rarely able to deny it completely. During this series, he becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his own ability to approach scientific cases. After Mulder's abduction in the hands of the aliens in the seventh season finale "Requiem", Scully became a "reluctant believer" who managed to explain the paranormal with science.
The various episodes also relate to the relationship between Mulder and Scully, originally platonic, but which later develops in a romantic manner. Mulder and Scully joined John Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) at the end of the series, after Mulder was kidnapped. Doggett replaces him as Scully's partner and helps him look for it, then engages Reyes, who Doggett has professional knowledge. The X-Files ends when Mulder secretly suffers military tribunal for breaking into Top Secret's military facility and sees plans for alien invasion and Earth colonization. He was found guilty, but he escaped punishment with the help of another agent and he and Scully became fugitives.
Mythology
As the show progresses, the key episodes, called parts of "Mytharc", are recognized as "mythologies" of the canon series; these episodes carry the story line of space/conspiracy that developed throughout the series. "Monster of the week" - often abbreviated as "MOTW" or "MoW" - comes to show the rest of the episodes of The X-Files . This episode, made up of most of the series, deals with paranormal phenomena, including: cryptids, mutants, science fiction technology, horror monsters, and religious phenomena. Some episodes of Monster-of-the-Week even feature satirical elements and comedic storylines. The central story's core involves the agency's efforts to uncover a government conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrials on Earth and their evil collaborations with those governments. The mysterious man composed of shadow elements in the US government, known as "Syndicate", is the main villain in the series; at the end of the series it was revealed that The Syndicate acts as the only link between mankind and a group of extraterrestrials intent on destroying the human species. They are usually represented by Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis), a cruel killer, expert politician, negotiator, failed novelist, and series' major antagonist.
The native California, Chris Carter was given the opportunity to produce a new show for the Fox network in the early 1990s. Tired of the comedy he's working on for Walt Disney Pictures, reports that 3.7 million Americans might have been abducted by aliens, Watergate scandals and 1970's horror series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, sparked ideas for The X-Files . He wrote the pilot episode in 1992.
Carter's initial pitch for The X-Files was rejected by Fox executives. He refined the concept and returned a few weeks later, when they commissioned the pilot. Carter worked with NYPD Blue producer Daniel Sackheim to further develop the pilot, draw style inspiration from the 1988 The Thin Blue Line documentary and the British Prime Suspect TV series >. Inspiration also came from Carter's memory of The Twilight Zone and of The Silence of the Lambs, which gave the impetus to frame the series around the agents of the FBI, in order to provide character with a more plausible reason to be involved in every case than Carter believes to be present at Kolchak. Carter is determined to keep the relationship between the two leads strictly platonic, basing his interactions on the characters Emma Peel and John Steed in The Avengers series.
The early 1990's Twin Peaks series was a major influence on the dark atmosphere of the show and the often-apparent mixture of drama and irony. Duchovny emerged as a DEA cross-dressing agent on Twin Peaks and Mulder's character was seen as parallel to the FBI Agent, Dale Cooper. Producers and authors quote All Men of the President , Three Days from Condor Close Meeting of the Third Type , Robbers from Lost Ark , Rashomon , The Thing , The Boys from Brazil , The Silence of the Lambs and > JFK as other influences. Continuous use of Carter in "Triangle" is modeled on Rope Hitchcock. In addition, episodes written by Darin Morgan often refer to or refer to other films.
Casting
Duchovny had worked in Los Angeles for three years before The X-Files ; at first he wanted to focus on the big screen films. In 1993, his manager, Melanie Green, gave him a script for the pilot episode of The X-Files. Green and Duchovny believed it was a good script, so he auditioned for the lead. Duchovny's audition was "amazing", though he spoke rather slowly. While the casting director of the show was so positive about him, Carter thought he was not very smart. He asks Duchovny if he can "please" imagine himself as an FBI agent in the episode of "the future". However, Duchovny turned out to be one of the most widely read people known to Carter.
Anderson auditioned for Scully's role in 1993. "I can not put the script down," he recalled. The network wants a more established or "taller, more legionary, rough and sexy" actress for Scully than 24-year-old Anderson, a veteran theater with a small movie experience. After the audition, Carter felt he was the only option. Carter insisted that Anderson had the no-nonsense integrity that the role required. To illustrate Scully, Anderson won many major awards: Screen Actors Guild Award in 1996 and 1997, Emmy Award in 1997, and Golden Globe Award 1997.
Walter Skinner's character was played by actor Mitch Pileggi, who failed to audition for two or three other characters on The X-Files before getting a role. At first, the fact that she was asked to return for an audition because the recurring role confused her a bit, until she found out why she had never played a role before - Carter could not imagine Pileggi being one of those characters, because the actor had shaved her head. When Pileggi auditioned for Walter Skinner, he was in a grumpy mood and let his little hair grow. His attitude fits with Skinner's character, causing Carter to assume that the actor is just pretending to be angry. Pileggi later realized that he was lucky that he had never played a part in any of the previous roles, because he believed he would appear in only one episode and would miss the chance to play a recurring role.
Before the seventh season aired, Duchovny filed a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox. He is angry because, he claims, Fox has underlined the right to its own affiliates, thereby costing huge sums of money. Finally, the lawsuit was settled, and Duchovny was awarded a settlement of about $ 20 million. The lawsuit weighed on Duchovny's professional relationship. Both Carter and Duchovny are contracted to work on the series outside the seventh season; However, Fox held negotiations near the end of the season to take them on board for the eighth season. After settling his contract dispute, Duchovny stopped participating full-time in the show after the seventh season. This contributes to the uncertainty over the possibility of the eighth season. Carter and most fans felt the show was at a natural ending point with Duchovny's departure, but it was decided that Mulder would be kidnapped at the end of the seventh season and would return in 12 episodes the following year. The producers then announced that the new character, John Doggett, would fill Mulder's role.
Over 100 actors auditioned for Doggett's role, but only about ten were taken seriously. Lou Diamond Phillips, Hart Bochner, and Bruce Campbell were among the top ten. The producers chose Robert Patrick. Carter believes that this series can continue for ten years with new prospects, and its opening credits are redesigned in both seasons eight and nine to emphasize the new actors (along with Pileggi, who eventually registered as the main characters). The presence of Doggett does not provide ratings that encourage network executives to hope. The eight-season episode of "This is Not Happening" marks the first appearance of Monica Reyes, played by Gish, who became the main character in season nine. His character was developed and introduced because of the possible departure of Anderson at the end of the eighth season. Although Anderson endures to the end, Gish becomes a regular series.
Small repetitive characters
The early influences of Glen Morgan and James Wong on Mythology's X-Files led to the introduction of popular secondary characters that continued over the years in episodes written by others: Scully's father, William (Don S. Davis); his mother, Margaret (Sheila Larken); and his sister Melissa (Melinda McGraw). The trio inspired by The Lone Gunmen conspiracy is also a secondary character. The trio was introduced in the first season episode of "E.B.E." as a way to make Mulder appear more credible. They were originally intended to appear only in the episode, but because of their popularity, they returned in the second season episode of "Blood" and became a recurring character. Smoking Man Smoking played by William B. Davis, originally acted as an adjunct in the pilot episode. However, his character grew to become the main antagonist.
Filming
During the early stages of production, Carter founded Ten Thirteen Productions and began planning a pilot filming in Los Angeles. However, unable to find a suitable location for many scenes, he decided to "go where the good forest" and move production to Vancouver. It was soon realized by the production crew that because so many of the first season would require filmmaking on site, rather than at healthy stages, a second location manager would be needed. Performances remain in Vancouver for the first five seasons; production then shifted to Los Angeles starting with the sixth season. Duchovny was not happy for his geographical separation from his wife TÃÆ' Â © a Leoni, although his popular dissatisfaction was associated with frustration with Vancouver's continuous rain. Anderson also wanted to return to the United States and Carter relented after the fifth season. The season ends in May 1998 with "The End," the last episode taken in Vancouver and the final episode with the involvement of many original crew members, including director and producer RW Goodwin and his wife Sheila Larken, who plays Margaret Scully and will return for a while.
With a move to Los Angeles, many behind-the-scenes changes occurred, as many of the original X-Files crews were missing. New production designer Corey Kaplan, editor Lynne Willingham, author David Amann and director and producer Michael Watkins joined and lived for several years. Bill Roe became the director of photography and the new episode of the show in general has a more dry and sunny appearance due to sunshine and California climate, compared to Vancouver rain, mist and temperate forest. At the beginning of the sixth season, the producers took advantage of the new location, the arrangement of performances in new parts of the country. For example, Vince Gilligan's "Drive", about a man with an unexplained illness, is a frenzied action episode, unusual for The X-Files largely because it is set in street- a loud desert road in Nevada. The two-part episode of "Dreamland" is also installed in Nevada, this time in Area 51. This episode was mostly filmed in "Club Ed", a film farm located on the outskirts of Lancaster, California.
Although the sixth to the ninth season was filmed in Los Angeles, the second series, The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008), was filmed in Vancouver, According to Spotnitz, the screenplay was written specifically for the city and its surroundings. The revival of 2016 was also shot there.
Music
The music is composed by Mark Snow, who is involved with The X-Files through his friendship with executive producer Goodwin. Initially Carter did not have a candidate. A little over a dozen people were considered, but Goodwin kept pressing for Snow, who auditioned about three unmarked times from the production staff if they wanted to. One day, however, Snow's agent calls him, speaks of a "pilot episode" and suggests that he has got the job.
The theme, "The X-Files", uses an instrumental part more than most plays. The effect of the famous theme song whistle is inspired by the song "How Soon Is Now?" from The Smiths' 1985 album Meat Is Murder . After trying to create a theme with different sound effects, Snow uses a Proteus 2 shelf synth 2 with an effect called "Whistling Joe". Upon hearing this effect, Carter was "shocked" and noted it was "going to be good". According to the "Behind the Truth" segment on the first season DVD, Snow created an echo effect on the track by accident. He feels that after several revisions, something is still not true. Carter walks out of the room and Snow puts his hands and arms on the keyboard in frustration. Thus, it inadvertently activates the settings of the echo effect. The resulting Riff is happy Carter; Snow said, "This sound is on the keyboard, and that's it." The second episode, "Deep Throat", marked Snow's debut as a solo composer for the entire episode. The production crew determined to restrict the music in the early episodes. Likewise, the theme song itself first appeared in "Deep Throat".
Snow was assigned a score for both The X-Files movies. These films mark the first appearance of the real orchestra instrument; previous music has been created by Snow using digital instrument sample sound. Snow's soundtrack for the first film, The X-Files: Original Motion Picture Score, was released in 1998. For the second film, Snow recorded with Hollywood Studio Symphony in May 2008 at Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox in Century City. UNKLE records a new version of theme music for end credits. Some unusual sounds are created by the silly putty variations and dimes tucked into the piano strings. Snow commented that the rapid percussion shown on multiple tracks was inspired by the song "Prospectors Quartet" from the soundtrack There Will Be Blood. The soundtrack score, The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Original Motion Picture Score , was released in 2008.
Opening the order
The opening sequence was made in 1993 for the first season and remained unchanged until Duchovny left the show. Carter attempted to make the title an "opening that had an impact" with a "supernatural image". This scene mainly includes separate screen images of germinated seeds and "face filled with terror, arch". The latter was made when Carter found a video operator capable of creating effects. The sequence is very popular and won its first Emmy Award, which is for Graphic Design Position and Title Sequence. Rabwin was very pleased with his order and felt that it was something "never seen on television before". In 2017, James Charisma from Paste (magazine) ranked the # 1 opening event sequence on the list of 75 of the Best TV Title Series of All Time .
The inaugural episode of the eight season, "In", reveals the first major change to the opening credits. Along with Patrick, the sequence uses new images and updated photos for Duchovny and Anderson, though Duchovny only appears on the opening credits when he appears in an episode. Carter and the production staff see Duchovny's departure as an opportunity to change things. The replacement shows various images of Scully's pregnancy. According to executive producer Frank Spotnitz, this sequence also featured an "abstract" way to show Mulder's absence in the eighth season: he fell into the eye. Season nine featured an entirely new sequence. Because Anderson wanted to continue, the sequence featured Reyes and Skinner. Duchovny's return to the show for the ninth season finale, "The Truth" marks the largest number of cast members to be featured in the opening credits, with five. The resurrection season uses the original credit opening sequence of the series.
The sequence ends with the tagline "Truth Is Outside", which is used for most episodes. The tagline changes in a particular episode into a slogan relevant to the episode.
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Broadcast and release
Episode
Nielsen ranking
The pilot premiered on September 10, 1993, and reached 12 million viewers. As the season progresses, ratings begin to rise and the end of the season gathers 14 million viewers. The first season ranked 105 out of 128 shows during the 1993-94 television season. The second season of the series' increases in rank - a trend that will continue for the next three seasons - and finish 63 of 141 performances. This rating is not spectacular, but the series has attracted enough fans to receive the label "cult hit", especially by Fox standards. Most importantly, it makes a great profit among the demographics of ages 18 to 49 that advertisers are looking for. During the third year, the series was ranked 55th and seen by an average of 15.40 million viewers, an increase of nearly seven percent during the second season, making it Fox's top-rated program in a demographic of 18-49 years. Although the first three episodes of the fourth season aired on Friday night, the fourth episode of "Unruhe" aired on Sunday night. The show remains on Sunday to the end. The high hit season with the twelfth episode, "Leonard Betts", was selected as the lead program following Super Bowl XXXI. This episode was watched by 29.1 million viewers, the highest serial episode. The fifth season debuted with "Redux I" on November 2, 1997 and was seen by 27.34 million people, making it the highest-rated non-special broadcast episode of the series. This season was classified as the eleventh most watched series during 1997-98, with an average of 19.8 million viewers. This is the season with the highest rating and the highest program of Fox during the 1997-98 season.
The sixth season premiered with "The Beginning", watched 20.24 million viewers. The show ended season six with a lower number than the previous season, starting a decline that will continue for the last three years of the show. The X-Files still shows the highest ranking of Fox that year. The seventh season, originally intended as the last show, was ranked as the 29th most watched show for 1999-2000, with 14.20 million viewers. This made it, at the time, the lowest performing year since the show since the third season. The first episode of season eight, "Within", was seen by 15.87 million viewers. This episode marked a 11% drop from the seventh season opener, "The Sixth Extinction". The first part of the ninth season opener, "Nothing Important Happened Today", attracted only 10.6 million viewers, premiere of the season's lowest season.
The original series final, "The Truth", attracted 13.25 million viewers, the season's lowest rated series. The ninth season was the most watched show of 63 for the 2001-02 season, tying the second season of the rankings. On May 19, 2002, the finale aired and Fox's network confirmed that the The X-Files had ended. When talking about the beginning of the ninth season, Carter said, "We lost the audience in the first episode.This is like the audience has gone and I do not know how to find them.I do not want to work to get it back because I believe what we do deserve it back. "While news outlets cited ratings downgrades due to the lackluster story and poor writing, the X-Files production crew blamed the September 11 terrorist attacks as a major factor. By the end of 2002, The X-Files had become the longest-running science fiction series ever on US broadcast television. The record was then exceeded by Stargate SG-1 in 2007 and Smallville in 2011.
The premiere episode of the 2016 revival, "My Struggle", first aired on January 24, 2016 and watched by 16.19 million viewers. In terms of viewers, this makes it the highest-rated episode of The X-Files to run since the eighth episode of this season's "This Is Not Happening" season, watched by 16.9 million viewers. When DVR and streaming are taken into account, "My Struggle" is seen by 21.4 million viewers, scoring a Nielsen 7.1 rating. The season ends with "My Struggle II", which is seen by 7.60 million viewers. In total, this season is seen by an average of 13.6 million viewers; it ranks as the seventh most watched television series of the year 2015-16, making it the highest-ranking season of The X-Files ever aired.
Foreign broadcast
By the time Asahi TV started broadcasting, The X-Files had been a solid player in a video store in Japan with sales of over 300,000. When The X-Files first hit Japan, it was the No. 1 event. 1 in its time slot and has an average rating of 14.9% for its first season. This is the first series produced by America to succeed in Japan in nearly a decade and is the only US program that has a regular primetime spot on Japanese television networks for the first three years running.
Movies
After several successful seasons, Carter wanted to tell the story of the series on a wider scale, which eventually turned into a movie screen. He then explains that the main problem is to create a story that will not require viewers to be familiar with the broadcast series. The film was filmed in hiatus between the fourth season and the fifth event and a re-shooting was done during the fifth season film making event. Due to the demands of the actors' schedules, some fifth season episodes focus on just one of two guidelines. On June 19, 1998, eponymous The X-Files , also known as The X-Files: Fight the Future was released. The crew intends the film to be a continuation of the end of the "Final" five seasons, but is also meant to stand on its own. The premier six season, "The Beginning", begins where the movie ends.
The film was written by Carter and Spotnitz and directed by the regular series of Rob Bowman. In addition to Mulder, Scully, Skinner and Smoking Cigarettes Man, it featured guest appearances by Martin Landau, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Blythe Danner, who appeared only in the film. It also featured the last appearance of John Neville as a Well Maintained Man. Jeffrey Spender, Diana Fowley, Alex Krycek and Gibson Praise - characters who have been introduced at the end of the fifth season and/or are an integral part of the television series - do not appear in the film. Although the film had a strong domestic opening and received most of the positive reviews from critics, its presence dropped sharply after the first weekend. Despite failing to make a profit during its theatrical release - partly because of its promotional budget - The X-Files film is more internationally successful. Finally, the world box office total of $ 189 million. Movie production costs and advertising budgets amounted to almost $ 66 million each. Unlike the series, Anderson and Duchovny receive the same pay for the film.
In November 2001, Carter decided to pursue the second film adaptation. Production is scheduled to begin after the ninth season, with projected releases in December 2003. In April 2002, Carter reiterated his desire and studio's desire to make sequel films. He plans to write the script during the summer and start production in the spring or summer of 2003 for release in 2004. Carter describes the film as independent of the series, saying "We see the film as standing-alones." They do not have to have to deal with mythology. " Bowman, who has directed various episodes of The X-Files in the past as well as the 1998 film, expressed interest in the sequel, but Carter took the job. Spotnitz co-authored the script with Carter. X-Files: I Want to Believe became the second film based on the series, after 1998 The X-Files: Fight the Future . The filming began in December 2007 in Vancouver and was completed on March 11, 2008.
The film was released in the United States on July 25, 2008. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly , Carter said that if I Want to Believe proved successful, he would propose a third movie that would back to the mythology of the television series and focus on the alien invasion predicted in the series, as it happened in December 2012. The film grossed $ 4 million on its opening day in the United States. It opened fourth on the US weekend box office chart, with gross of $ 10.2 million. At the end of his theatrical journey, he has grossed $ 20,982,478 domestically and an additional $ 47,373,805 internationally, with a worldwide gross of $ 68,369,434. Among the 2008 domestic releases, it finished in 114th place. The stars of this film claim that the movie launch time, a week after the highly popular Batman movie The Dark Knight, negatively affects its success. The film received mixed reviews. Metacritic, which provides a normalized ranking of 100 reviews from major film critics, reports "mixed or averaged" reviews, with an average score of 47 based on 33 reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 32% of the 160 listed film critics gave positive reviews on the film, with an average rating of 4.9 out of 10. The website wrote the consensus of critics who stated; "The chemistry between leader David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson really corresponds to the broadcasted TV X-Files Inheritance , but the roving and routine of babbling makes it difficult to identify what we are doomed to believe. " Revival
In several interviews around the release, Carter said that if the X-Files: I Want to Believe movie proved successful at the box office, the third installment would be made back into the mythology of the TV series, focusing specifically on alien invasions and colonization Earth is forecasted at the end of the ninth season, which occurred on December 22, 2012. In an October 2009 interview, David Duchovny also said he wanted to do a 2012 film X-Files but did not know if he would get a chance. Anderson stated in August 2012 that the third movie X-Files "looks good". In July 2013, Fox has yet to approve the film, though Carter, Spotnitz, Duchovny and Anderson expressed interest. At New York Comic Con held 10-13 October 2013, Duchovny and Anderson reiterate that they and Carter are interested in making the third film, with Anderson saying "If it takes a fan boost to get Fox interested in it then I guess that's what happen. "
On January 17, 2015, Fox confirmed that they saw the possibility of bringing The X-Files back, not as a movie, but as the season of limited running television. Fox Chairman Dana Walden told reporters that "conversations so far are only logistics and are in the early stages" and that the series will only advance if Carter, Anderson, and Duchovny all join in, and it is a matter of making sure all their schedules are open. On March 24, 2015, it has been confirmed the series will return with the creators of Chris Carter series and lead actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. It aired on January 24, 2016.
On April 20, 2017, Fox officially announced that The X-Files will return for the eleventh season of ten episodes, aired on January 3, 2018.
In January 2018, Gillian Anderson insists that season 11 will be his last season The X-Files . The following month, Carter stated in an interview that he could see the show continued without Anderson. In May 2018, co-CEO of Fox, Gary Newman commented that "there are no plans to do any other season at this time."
Release home video
On September 24, 1996, the first "wave" of the VHS cassette The X-Files was released. The wave set is released covering the first to fourth season. Each "wave" is three VHS tapes, each containing two episodes, for a total of six episodes per wave and two waves per season. For example, home videos of waves drawn from the first half of the first season: "Pilot"/"Deep Throat", "Conduit"/"Ice" and "Fallen Angel"/"Eve". Each wave is also available in a set of boxes. Unlike the next DVD season release, the tapes do not include every episode of the season. In the end, twelve episodes - roughly half of the broadcast number - were chosen by Carter to represent each season, including almost all "arc mythology" episodes and separate selected episodes. Carter briefly introduces each episode with an explanation of why the episode was selected and anecdotes from the set. These clips are then included in the full season DVD. The eight waves, which include the last part of the fourth season, are the last to be released. No interviews Carter appeared on DVD for the season. Many waves have collection cards for each episode.
All nine seasons are released on DVD along with two movies. The whole series was re-released on DVD in early 2006, in a "more streamlined" package. The first five lean versions are not accompanied by some bonus material featured in the original fold-out version. However, the six, seven, eight and nine seasons all contain bonus material found in the original version. Episodic DVDs have also been released in Region 2, such as "Deadalive", "Existence", "Nothing Important Happened Today", "Providence" and "The Truth". Various other episodes were released on DVD and VHS. In 2005, four DVD sets were released containing the main story episode of The X-Files . The four are: Volume 1 - Abduction , Volume 2 - Black Oil , Volume 3 - Colonization and Volume 4 - Super Soldiers me. A set of boxes contains all nine seasons and the first film was made available in 2007, which contains all the special features of the initial release. This set also includes additional discs of new bonus features and various collections, including posters for first films, comic books, a set of collector cards and guides for all 202 episodes in all nine seasons and first films. Due to the fact that the set was released in 2007, the second movie, released in 2008, was not included.
The Blu-ray season's release of X-Files ', restored in high definition, is rumored to start in late 2013. The German ProSieben Maxx TV channel began airing the first episode of the formatted -season and on high definition on January 20, 2014. On April 23, 2015, Netflix began streaming episodes of The X-Files in high definition, marking the first time the series was available in high-resolution format at North America. In October 2015, it has been confirmed that the full series will be re-published on Blu-ray, and the full set was released on December 8, 2015. The set was criticized for using the wrong font for title sequences and season 8 affected by color balance issues making the image appear darker in most episodes. These problems caused Fox to offer corrected discs and finally issued a new set with the correct color balance.
Spin-off
The Lone Gunmen
The Lone Gunmen is an American science fiction television series created by Carter and broadcast on Fox, and made as a funny spinoff from The X-Files . The series starred Lone Gunmen in repute, and was first broadcast in March 2001, during The X-Files 's month-long hiatus. Although its debut episode garnered 13.23 million viewers, its ranking began to decline. The program was canceled after thirteen episodes. The last episode was broadcast in June 2001 and ended on a cliffhanger partly completed in the ninth season episode of The X-Files titled "Jump the Shark".
Comic book
The X-Files was transformed into a comic book series published by Topps Comics during the third and fourth season of the event. The earliest comic books were written only by Stefan Petrucha. According to Petrucha, there are three types of stories: "those who deal with characters, people who deal with conspiracies, and monster-of-the-week things". Petrucha calls the latter the easiest to write. Petrucha sees Scully as a "scientist [...] with real-world belief", and that the difference between [Mulder and Scully] is not that Mulder believes and Scully does; this is more of a difference in the procedure. "In this way, Mulder's point of view is often written equally validly with Scully, and Scully's science is often portrayed as convincing as Mulder's more bizarre ideas. Petrucha is finally fired and other writers take on the job, Topps publishes 41 regular issues. -Files from 1995-98.
A 30 Days of Night / The X-Files cross-over graphic novel was published by WildStorm in 2010. It follows Mulder and Scully to Alaska as they investigate a horrific series of murders may be related to vampires.
In 2013, it was announced that The X-Files will return to comic book form with "Season 10", now published by IDW. The series, which followed Mulder and Scully after the X-Files: I Want to Believe, was released in June 2013. Joe Harris writes the series, and Michael Walsh and Jordie Bellaire deliver the artwork. He then announced that Carter himself would be an executive producer for the series and would "give feedback to the creative team about the script and outline to keep the new story in line with the existing and ongoing canon." The series is restarting the series mythology, and the first bow of the story focuses on "the quest to bring the mythology of the Alien Conspiracy back up to date in the paranoid, post-terror, post-WikiLeaks community." In addition, popular sequel episodes of Monster-of-the-Week are made. The X-Files Season 10 closed on July 1, 2015 after 25 issues.
In August 2015, The X-Files Season 11 started comic books, also published by IDW. The 8-issue series is presented as a continuation of the TV show. Chris Carter is the Executive Producer of the comic book series, while the issue is written by Joe Harris and illustrated by Matthew Dow Smith and Jordie Bellaire.
Influence
Critical reception
Overall
The X-Files received positive reviews from television critics, with many calling it one of the best series aired on American television in the 1990s. Ian Burrell of the British newspaper The Independent mentions the show "one of the biggest cult performances on modern television". Richard Corliss of Time magazine called the show a "cultural rock" of the 1990s. Hal Boedeker from Orlando Sentinel said in 1996 that the series has grown from cult favorites to "classic" television. The Evening Herald says the show has a "great influence" on television, in front of events like The Simpsons . In 2012, Entertainment Weekly made a list of events at # 4 in "25 Best Culture TV Show of the Last 25 Years", describing it as "a compliment to strange fans, science fiction fans, conspiracy theorists and Area 51 pilgrims everywhere.The ratings are enhanced every year for the first five seasons, while the dynamics of Mulder and Scully-believe-versus creators create TV templates that are still in use today. "
In 2004 and 2007, The X-Files was ranked # 2 in the Top Cult Shows Ever TV Guide '. In 2002, the show was ranked 37th as the best television show of all time. In 1997, the episodes of "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and "Small Potatoes" were ranked # 10 and # 72 in "100 greatest episodes of all time" 100 of the TV Guide. In 2013, TV Guide put it in the "60 Greatest Drama of All Time" list and ranked at # 25 on the "60 Best Serial All Time" list. In 2007, Time put it on the "100 Best TV Show of All Time" list. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named it the fourth best piece of science fiction, the fourth best TV show in the last 25 years and in 2009, renamed it the fourth best science fiction, on their list of "20 Science Fiction TV Shows Best "in history. Empire ranked magazine The X-Files of the best ninth TV show in history, further claiming that the best episode is the third season entry "Jose Chung From Outer Space". According to The Guardian , MediaDNA research found that The X-Files is at the top of the most innovative TV brand list. In 2009, it was announced that the slogan of "The Truth Is Out There" is one of 60 famous slogans and quotes in the UK.
The X-Files has been criticized for its unscientific and privileged paranormal and supernatural ideas (eg, hypotheses made by Mulder). For example, in 1998, Richard Dawkins wrote that " The X-Files systematically radiates an anti-rationalist view of the world which, on its recurring persistence, is dangerous."
The first seven seasons
Pilot episodes are generally well received by fans and critics. Variety criticized the episode for "using the reworked concept", but praised the production and noted its potential. Acting, Variety says "Duchovny's delineation from a serious scientist with a sense of humor must win him partisanship and Anderson's hesitant doubts connect well.They are a solid team... '" Variety praises the writing and directions: "The Mandel's cool directions from Carter's ingenious script and artful presentations provide a sci-fi TV impulse." The magazine concluded, "The Carter Dialogue is fresh without self-consciousness and its characters are involved.The series starts with encouragement and imagination, both innovative on TV recently." Entertainment Weekly says that Scully "was formed as a stifling skeptic" in the pilot but evolved into confidence throughout the season. After four episodes, the magazine called the "X-Files" the most paranoid, subversive show on TV, "noting" the tremendous tension between Anderson - who doubts about this event - and Duchovny, who has an appearance the haunted and the begging of a true believer ". Virgin Media says the most memorable "Monster-of-the-Week" is Eugene Tooms from "Squeeze" and "Tooms".
The next four seasons receive similar compliments. During the second season of the event, Entertainment Weekly named The X-Files "Program of the Year" for 1994, stating "no other event on television that gives a vibration that < i> X-Files doing ". The DVD Journal gave the second season four of four stars, calling it "a memorable season". This review highlights "The Host", "Duane Barry" and "Ascension", the unforgettable "Anasazi" cliffhanger, "Humbug" and the Mulder and Scully family gatherings at "Colony" and "One Breath". ranked 9 out of 10, with reviewers noting that it is an improvement on the first because "start exploring a bit" and "character evolution makes the product shine even though the storyline has started. looks familiar. "Todd VanDerWerff of The AV Club believes that the third season of The X-Files is" the best season and probably one of the greatest TV seasons of all time ", noting that consistent and "[swinging] from strength to strength" between mythology and stand-alone episodes Michael Sauter of Entertainment Weekly gave the fifth season an "A-", writing that it "proved the show - even then - still at the peak of his creative (if only for a year or more) and full of surprises. "He praised the new additions to series mythology and concluded that" many stand-alone episodes now look like classics. "Francis Dass, writing for New Straits Times , noting that the season was "very interesting" and had "some really inspiring and funny episodes [...].
After the 1998 film, the event began receiving an increasingly critical review. Some of the old fans became alienated during the sixth season of the event, due to the different tone taken by most stand-alone episodes after moving to Los Angeles. Rather than following the "Monsters-of-the-Week" style, they are often romantic or funny or both, such as "Arcadia" or "Terms of Endearment". Some fans feel there is no coherent plan to the main storyline and that Carter "makes things go together". As for the seventh season, The A.V. Club notes that while most of the first eight seasons of The X-Files are "good-to-great", the seventh season of the show was "lethargic" and had "significant problems". Nevertheless, seasons six and seven include some episodes praised by critics, including the sixth season entry "Triangle" and "The Unnatural", as well as the seventh installment of the "X-Cops" season.
Season eight and ninth
The eighth season of the event received a positive response from critics. The A.V. The Club notes that the eighth season is "revitalized by a new search for the story-bow Mulder". Amy H. Sturgis praised the eighth season, praising Anderson's performance as Scully as "excellence" and positively writing that Doggett is "non-Mulderish". Collin Polonowonski of the DVD Times said that this season included "more hits than misses overall" but offered a negative word about mythological episodes, claiming that they were the "weakest" episode of the season. Jesse Hassenger of PopMatters, however, criticized the new season, claiming that Patrick misjudged and referred to Duchovny's appearance as a shallow Mulder.
The ninth season received mixed and negative criticism by critics and garnered negative reactions from many old fans and viewers. Sabadino Parker from PopMatters, called the "pale reflection of the show first" show. Elizabeth Weinbloom of The New York Times concluded, "writing poorly, it is a half-hearted peak of what was once a very complicated friendship", between Mulder and Scully that ended the remaining interest in what "faded" the phenomenon. "The other The New York Times review stated," The most imaginative show on television has finally reached the limit of his imagination. " The AV Club lists the ninth season and the 2008 film The X-Files: I Want to Believe as the "bad apple" of The X-Files franchise, describing the ninth season as "clumsy stuff - ever successful and a new series on what's called a 'super soldier.' "Brian Linder of IGN, on the other hand, is more positive in the ninth season, saying that the series can still be aired if the authors created a new storyline for Patrick and Gish characters.
Tenth Season
The 2016 revival of the event was greeted with mixed reviews; the first and last episodes are filled with warm and negative reviews from critics, while episodes two through five are generally well received. The third episode in particular, named "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster", was praised by critics, with Alex McCown from The A.V. The club calls it an "instant classic". Overall, Metacritic review aggregators gave season scores of 60 out of 100 based on 35 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Likewise, Rotten Tomatoes gave rise to a 64% approval rating with an average score of 6.6 out of 10 based on 48 reviews. The consensus of the site reads, "Chemistry Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny remain intact, but as a whole, The X-Files revival does not have the creative sparks needed to sustain the initial rush of nostalgia."
Accolades
The X-Files received the prestigious award for 9 years running, with a total of 62 Emmy nominations and 16 awards. Closing the successful first season, The X-Files James Castle crew members Bruce Bryant and Carol Johnsen won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequence in 1994. In 1995, the event it was nominated for seven Emmy Awards with one win. The following year, the event won five Emmys from eight nominations, including Darin Morgan for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. In 1997, The X-Files won three awards from twelve, including Gillian Anderson for Best Actress in a Drama Series. In 1998, the event won one of fifteen. In 1999, he won one of eight, in the category for Outstanding Makeup for a Series. Season seven won three Emmies from six nominations. The next season will not work, just catch two nominations and win again in the Makeup category for "Deadalive". The ninth season received a nomination in the Extraordinary Music Composition for the Series (Underscore Drama).
The show was nominated for 12 Golden Globe Awards overall, winning five. The first nomination came in 1994, when the event won the Best Series - Drama. The following year, Anderson and Duchovny were nominated for Best Actor in the Main Role and Best Actress in the Main Role, respectively. In 1996, the series won three awards; Anderson and Duchovny for Best Actress and Actor and for Best Series - Drama. In 1997 and 1998, the event received three identical nominations. In 1997, however, the series won the Best Series - Drama. "In 1998 the series did not win the award and did not receive nominations afterwards.
The event was nominated for 14 SAG Awards overall, winning twice. In 1996 and 1997, Anderson won for Extraordinary Performance by Female Actor in Drama Series. In 1996, the event won the Peabody Award for being able to "deliver entertaining and stimulating ideas". The event has also been nominated for: two American Cinema Editors, three Guild of America Awards, nine Television Critics Association Awards and two Writers Guild of American Awards. X-Files was also nominated for nine Satellite Awards, winning two of them; and two Young Artist Awards, won one.
Fandom
Like The X-Files viewing audiences expanding from a group of "small, but filial" fans to mass worldwide audiences, digital telecommunications is becoming mainstream. According to The New York Times , "this is probably the first show to find the growth of listeners related to the growth of the Internet". X-Files incorporates new technology into the storyline starting at the beginning of the season: Mulder and Scully communicate on cell phones, e-mail contacts with secret informants provide plot points in episodes like "Colony" and "Anasazi ", while The Lone Gunmen has been portrayed as an internet enthusiast since 1994. Many fans of X-Files also have online access. Event enthusiasts became commonly known as "X-Philes", a term coined from the Greek root "-phil-" which means love or obsession. In addition to watching the event, X-Philes reviews the episode itself on an unofficial website, forming a community with other fans through the Usenet newsgroups and listserv, and writing their own fan fiction.
The X-Files are also "caught by viewers who usually do not consider themselves sci-fi fans". While Carter argues that the show was triggered by the plot, many fans see it as character-driven. Duchovny and Anderson are characterized as "the symbol of Internet sex". As the show gets more popular, subgroups of fans thrive, like "senders" hoping for a romantic or sexual partnership between Mulder and Scully, or those who already feel one among the lines. Other groups appear to honor the stars or their characters, while others join the "slash" fictional subculture. In the summer of 1996, a journalist wrote, "there are all online forums devoted to the 'M/S' relationship [Mulder and Scully]". In addition to "MOTW", internet enthusiasts create acronyms like "UST" meaning "unresolved sexual tension" and "COTR" meaning "conversation on rock" - referring to the popular scene in the third season episode "Quagmire" - -to help in their discussion of agency relationships, which themselves are identified as "MSR".
The producers did not support some of the fan readings, according to a study on this issue: "Not content to allow the Shippers to see what they want, Carter consistently assures NoRomos [those who oppose the idea of ​​Mulder/Scully romance] that they are the preferred reading , this allows him to perform a reliable deniability to show the success of the event on his original plan even though many are watching it in anticipation of romance, thanks, in part, to his strategic polysemic.He can deny that these fans have a reason to do so, repeatedly declaring that romance does not and will never exist. "Scully-obsessed writer in the 1999 episode Carter" Milagro "is read by some as his alter ego, realizing that at this point" he has fallen in love with Mulder despite his intent the strong one". Writers sometimes reward fans who are more visible by naming minor characters after them. The best example is Leyla Harrison. Played by Jolie Jenkins and introduced in the eighth season episode "Alone", Harrison, was created and named to commemorate internet fans and prolific fans of fictional fans of the same name who died of cancer on February 10, 2001.
Merchandise
The X-Files spawned the spin-off product industry. In 2004, US-based Topps Comics and most recently, DC Comics imprint Wildstorm launched a new series of licensed tie-in comics. During the run of the series, Fox Broadcasting Company publishes the official The X-Files Magazine . The X-Files Collectible Card Game was released in 1996 and a set of expansions was released in 1997. The X-Files has inspired four video games. In 1998, The X-Files Game was released for PC and Macintosh and a year later for the PlayStation. The game is set in the timeline of the second or third season and follows Agent Craig Willmore in his search for the lost Mulder and Scully. In 2000, Fox Interactive released The X-Files: Unrestricted Access , a game style database for Windows and Mac, allowing users to access every case file. Then, in 2004, The X-Files: Resist or Serve was released. This game is a survival-horror game released for the PlayStation 2 and is an original story created in the seventh season. It allows player control of both Mulder and Scully. Both of these games feature acting and voice work from the cast members of the series. In February 2018, the mobile mystery investigation game The X-Files: Deep State was released on iOS, Android and Facebook. The story takes place between season 9 and 10 performances, and follows two FBI agents, Casey Winter and Garret Dale, as they investigate the evil conspiracy. A 6-player pinball game, called The X-Files , was produced by Sega in 1997.
Legacy
The X-Files directly inspired other TV series, including Strange World , Burning Zone , Special Unit 2 , Mysterious , Lost , Dark Sky , Visitors , Edges , Warehouse 13 , Supernatural , and Gravity Falls , with the main aspects brought to a more standard crime drama, such as Eleventh Hour and < i> Bone . Influence can be seen at another level: television series like Lost develop their own complex mythology. In terms of characterization, Dana Scully's role is seen as innovative, changing "how women [on television] are not only perceived but behaving" and may influence the depictions of other "strong women" researchers. Russell T Davies said The X-Files has been an inspiration on the Torchwood series, describing it as "dark, wii"
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