Jim Laczkowski of The Director's Club joins me this week to discuss "Ice," which is a classic X-Files episode that owes more than a tip of the hat to John Carpenter's The Thing.
Are those establishing shots of the research base actually from The Thing? Did it have to be Kenny Banya that greeted Mulder & Scully at the hangar in Alaska? Think Xander Berkley is the bad guy? Think again.
Anyway... There's a lot of great stuff going on in this episode: a genuinely tense atmosphere throughout, accentuated by Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny doing some of their best acting to date in the series.
Jim and I discuss all that and it's a good talk.
Dig in.
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