A lot of people also confuse being “good” with being technically proficient. Somebody like Steve Vai could play circles around Keith Richards, but Richards is a better guitarist to me because he writes good riffs and plays them in a way that makes me feel stuff. Aimless meedley meedlies may be harder to play, but…

Yes, I rather dislike Marxism, censorship, and racial demagoguery.

“Person insinuates their way into the cultural elite via lies and seduction” was a well-known story long before Adam Smith was even born. This show is a criticism of capitalism only insofar as it takes place in a capitalist country.

I can’t stop reading this. It’s post-satire

Yes, preposterous. Yet, he writes a couple thousand words doing just that.

oh, good grief.

People shilling Marx should trigger everyone. It is the deadliest ideology of the 20th century.

Yes. I freely admit to be triggered by reading about how great the most genocidal ideology of all time is at interpreting TV shows. Genocide tends to do that to me. And what’s wrong with being triggered? Are you erasing my lived experience?

People are pretty isolated in communist jail cells and there is plenty of anxiety as to when they will shoot you in the back of the neck or train the dogs to rape you.

I’m not seeing the connection between capitalism and Cunanan wrapping his head in duct tape.

Do people really believe that there would be no isolation or alienation under capitalism? Is the isolation and alienation people feel a product of human experience, or is it unique to the capitalist experience? Are people in China not feeling isolation and alienation? Venezuela? I just think you guys stretch this…

It’d be slightly preposterous to argue that The Assassination Of Gianni Versace is some sort of remarkable Marxist critique of capitalism and material wealth,

I love Brian Thompson in that role, like the episode where Mulder’s chasing him down, and the bounty hunter just gets shot and drowned and all sorts of crap while he’s trying to finish his mission and get back to his spaceship, but Mulder won’t give up so eventually they fight on the submarine and the bounty hunter’s…

What was fun about Doggett is that he wasn’t a skeptic, he was a normal FBI agent who wanted the collar & doubted weird shit existed, but then when it turned out it did he was like “I’ll roll with it I guess but this is still weird shit”

Main objection is to the climax of the episode, where a career criminal just decides to confess to a murder for no apparent reason other than providing closure to the audience.

BTW, I’ve always liked Robert Patrick and he did a fine job here, but the whole Doggett-as-skeptic and Scully as true believer kinda reminded me of the Simpsons episode where Lou is promoted to Chief and Eddie is promoted to Lou.

This is one long article just to say that Dogget wasn’t all that bad. In fact he wasn’t but I’m not sure he’d have much place in the reboot. Reyes was a god awful character from the get-go and her only role in the reboot seems to be to play nurse to CSM and ask him questions that allow him to explane his evil plot to…

I liked Doggett too, but I can’t get over how badly they botched resolving his dead son. The resolution was such a good idea on paper: Having it not be the least bit supernatural, just some mobster killing him because he was a witness to something. But the execution ended up being so silly.

Carter tried—apparently Patrick was not interested in Season 10 and it was impossible to schedule a Season 11 appearance due to “Scorpion.”.

The whole “evil shows up on your face” thing should have died with the Middle Ages.