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    Poll: 4 ways 'The X-Files' could continue without Gillian Anderson

    We make our pitch for four spinoffs that could carry on the future of “The X-Files,” even if the Season 10 finale is indeed the last time we'll see Dana Scully. Vote for your favorite.

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    Fans react to the shocking finale of 'The X-Files'

    "The X-Files" finale was full of unexpected moments, and fans on Twitter were totally shocked.

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    'The X-Files' postmortem: 'Plus One' director Kevin Hooks talks bringing sexy back to the show

    The director of this week's hour takes us inside the scene many 'shippers have been waiting for.

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    The new 'X-Files' is obsessed with Trump

    Season 11, premiering Jan. 3, wants to suggest that, in the current era, we wouldn't agree on what "truth" was even if Mulder and Scully finally discovered it.

  • NewsKen Tucker

    'The X-Files' Review: The Final Breakdown

    The X-Files Review: The Final Breakdown The six episodes of the 10th season of The X-Files wrapped up on Monday night with “My Struggle II,” an episode written and directed by series creator Chris Carter. It was a sequel to the episode that began the rebooted series—that would be “My Struggle”—and frames these half-down episodes as a very uneven enterprise. SPOILERS FOR THE X-FILES FINALE FOLLOW.

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    'The X-Files' Creator Chris Carter: How Burt Reynolds Became God

    The world of The X-Files is populated by a number of bizarre creatures, from a Flukeman to a Were-Monster. According to series creator Chris Carter, the big-screen icon of Smokey and the Bandit fame was a huge X-Files fan, so Carter moved heaven and earth to cast him in the Season 9 episode “Improbable.” Premiering on Apr. 7, 2002, the standalone story involved FBI agents Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) pursuing a serial killer and crossing paths with the godly R

  • NewsKen Tucker

    'Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster': A Classic New 'X-Files' Episode

    It is the ongoing paradox of The X-Files that the show’s creator, Chris Carter came up with the show’s brilliant concept and executed the visual style that made the original run compelling, but the show’s secret sauce was always an undercurrent of humor that Carter’s own scripts—increasingly subsumed by the show’s ever-more-knotty mythology–usually lacked. Some of the greatest scary/funny X-Files episodes, such as “Home,” “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” and “Small Potatoes,” were written by ot