Requiem is definitely one of the best season finales, but as much as I love Vince Gilligan's work, X-Cops always felt like a gimmick stretched too far to me. Hungry is a nice idea, but without Mulder and Scully on screen for most of the episode, it doesn't quite work. Je Souhaite is one of my favourites of the…

The first season of Millennium was a serious, gritty, grown-up crime drama with something to say about the breakdown of society. It was essentially Se7en for television. Season 2 turned it into Sexy Psychic Nazi Relic Hunters, cast Glen Morgan's wife as a cheap Scully-esque sidekick and reduced the whole thing into a…

If anyone needs convincing that Glen Morgan is not a great showrunner, try sitting through even one episode of Intruders. Boring, turgid, lifeless snoozefest.

Season 8 is a real return to form. Robert Patrick breathes new life into the show, and it gets back to being dark and scary for the first time since leaving Vancouver. Patience, Roadrunners, Redrum, Via Negativa, Badlaa, The Gift - old school quality standalones. The search for Mulder also gives the mythology more…

Shadows and 3 are no better than Fight Club, which at least has a fun teaser.

Very well said. It doesn't even make a whole lot of sense. Why do the brothers kill the baby? Why do they murder the sheriff after living in the town all their lives? Why are Mulder and Scully wisecracking while examining a dead baby?

Untrue. Squeeze and Die Hand Die Verletz were fantastic, no question. But let's not forget that Ice is an outright rip-off of The Thing - they practically owe John Carpenter money. Beyond the Sea owes more than a passing debt to Silence of the Lambs, too. Then there's Shadows, Shapes, Blood, 3, The Field Where I…

No one knows the show better than Chris Carter - he's the only one who can take it forward. "My Struggle" may be getting bad press, but if you think about it, writing that episode is the biggest thankless task in television. It has to reintroduce characters we haven't seen on TV for 13 years, bring them back into the…

He has gone on record saying he chose the title "knowing that suckers out there would think it is a sequel to Home." It's not.

It was written and directed by Glen Morgan. He chose the title. No doubt a reference to coming "home" to The X-Files once again. Simple as that.

Chris Carter wrote many of the series' best episodes - Deep Throat, Darkness Falls, Duane Barry, Irresistible, The Post-Modern Prometheus, Triangle. He was the one running the show and making it a success.

The second movie was great. Not perfect, but vastly underrated. The studio wouldn't give them any time or money, so Chris Carter made a grown-up indie movie with big themes and only small stunts that refused to pander to nostalgia or popcorn cliches. But the mass market wanted a generic Independence Day style alien…