Season 2 of The X-Files continues...
Content warning - 3 involves descriptions of abuse and this comes up in our discussion.
We've had werewolves so far, how about some vampires? Assuming you don't subscribe to Kim's theory that most of the monster of the week entities are some form of vampire (needing to feed on livers, infect their host to continue and so on), 3 offers our first vampire episode! And from the writer of Roland! This should be great.
It... really isn't. A twitter poll failed to turn up any support for the episode and we struggle to care as events play out and the script's nature as an unmade season 1 entrant becomes more and more obvious as we repeatedly fail to note one of the guest star's names correctly.
One Breath is dramatically better, though feels a completely different genre to Duane Barry and Ascension as it was once distributed back in the 90s. Scully gets to sleep through this for the most part so its all Mulder again. We meet more of the Scully family - for which Kim advances a neat theory. Still kinda floored that the FBI once used the entire X-Files office for storing the photocopier.
Kim's Conspiracy Corner only has a little more to work on. Slightly frustratingly it seems all Scully's abduction stuff must be at the hands of humans. Unless the Grey aliens really were going to rifle through Mulder's apartment that evening. Or Melissa actually is the guilty party and turned up early to confound everyone.
