Ai confini della realtà: il capolavoro di Rod Serling, uno dei titoli di riferimento di quell'universo letterario, televisivo e cinematografico da cui la serie di Chris Carter ha sempre tratto ispirazione, è il punto di partenza di un nuovo memorabile episodio di X-Files. Gli impagabili sproloqui di Mulder sull'abominevole uomo delle nevi, da cui è peraltro travestito con nonchalance, non fanno che confermare la prima impressione: come la settimana scorsa, ci troviamo di fronte a un episodio classico della serie. Un episodio che pesca a piene mani dalla tradizione, facend ... [Continua a leggere]

Doppelganger: il sosia. Il doppio di una persona - o meglio di un personaggio - è un tema estremamente caro agli autori delle serie TV e della stessa X-Files. Da Buffy a The Vampire Diaries, da Supernatural a Fringe, True Blood e perfino How I Met Your Mother, il tema del doppio rappresenta una proiezione del proprio lato oscuro (spesso è malvagio), un cattivo presagio (di morte, proprio come nell'episodio di cui stiamo parlando) o un mezzo per rappresentare un qualche disturbo della personalità (anche questo citato da Scully nell'episodio). Doppioni, il terzo episodio di ... [Continua a leggere]

LOS ANGELES — While other TV shows come and go, the science-fiction drama “The X-Files” created by Chris Carter has returned after a long hiatus that followed a long television run. Starring David Duchovny (as FBI special agent Fox Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (as FBI special agent Dana Scully), the TV series, which originally premiered on September 10, 1993, returned for an 11th season of 10 episodes, with the season premiering at the beginning of this year. We were able to talk to Duchovny, 57, and Anderson, 49, recently and they share with us their thoughts and feelings ... [Continua a leggere]

With Gillian Anderson, aka FBI Agent Dana Scully, announcing she’ll be departing The X-Files universe at the end of the current season and showrunner Chris Carter considering continuing without her, everyone’s a little unsure of what to expect moving forward, including fellow lead actor, David Duchovny. Speaking with The Music in the lead up to his debut Australian tour, the US actor opened up on the subject, stating he couldn’t "imagine the show without Mulder and Scully". "I love the people that I’ve worked with; I love Gillian and Chris and I want them to be doing ... [Continua a leggere]

Over the span of The X-Files' 24-years of existence, actor Mitch Pileggi has embodied the role of Agent Mulder and Agent Scully's gruff, emotionally reserved boss, FBI Assistant Director Walter Sergei Skinner. Aside from the knowledge that he was in Vietnam and almost died, that he was married once, and that his relationship with his X-Files agents can at best be described as "complicated," Skinner remains largely a mystery. Even Pileggi was admittedly mock-grousing in Season 10 that it would be nice to know more about his character. Luckily, Chris Carter's assistant and X ... [Continua a leggere]

Abbiamo assistito a una lezione. Professore: Chris Carter. Tematica trattata: "Come ti creo un episodio di culto all'interno di una serie di culto". Siamo solo al secondo episodio e questa undicesima stagione di X-Files ha già tutte le carte in regola per diventare una delle migliori mai realizzate. Perché - a dispetto di chi si lamenta dei cambiamenti, senza fermarsi a riflettere sulla loro necessità e sulle loro funzioni - abbiamo appena preso parte a una piccola magia: un episodio capace di riportarci indietro nel tempo mantenendoci, al contempo, saldamente ancorati al ... [Continua a leggere]

Do X-Files fans still want to believe? The paranormal US drama series, which partnered Gillian Anderson’s sceptic Scully with David Duchovny’s more open-minded Mulder, was an intrinsic part of nineties pop culture. In its heyday, it could be terrifying, warmly funny – with that famous Anderson-Duchovny chemistry at its heart – and brilliantly bizarre, often all at once. It came to a temporary end in 2002 after nine seasons, spawned a rather disappointing 2008 film, and then dramatically returned in 2016, along with its leads, for a six-part mini-series. The revival hit ... [Continua a leggere]

After stumbling back on to our screens with season 10, The X-Files has hit the ground running with season 11. The US is four episodes in to what may well be the last ever run of Chris Carter's paranormal series, with lead actress Gillian Anderson swearing that this is it for her. The UK gets the season premiere tonight (February 5) So Digital Spy got on the phone with Chris to ask him all about re-opening The X-Files, writing FBI conspiracies in the age of Donald Trump, and what Gillian's departure means for the future of the show. Here's what he had to say. How much fun has it been to have ... [Continua a leggere]

“It’s a whole life,” says FBI Special Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) as she studies the belongings of recently deceased teenager Jackson Van De Kamp (Miles Robbins), apparently felled by a self-inflicted gunshot wound after murdering his parents. Not his real parents, mind you. It’s eventually proven via DNA test that Jackson was adopted and that he is actually Scully’s child—ostensibly with her professional and occasional romantic partner Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), though more likely the result of a eugenics experiment conducted on her by Mulder&rsq ... [Continua a leggere]

I had the great good fortune to speak with David Duchovny, our favorite brooding special agent, earlier this month in NYC. You might not know that Duchovny is releasing his second album, “Every Third Thought,” on February 9, and that his third fiction novel, Miss Subways, will be out in early May. Given his Ivy League background and writing/directing credits, are you really that surprised that Duchovny is a bit of a renaissance man these days? I stopped by the NYC listening party for “Every Third Thought” and caught up with David ... [Continua a leggere]

After all the teases, speculation and build up, The X-Files re-introduced Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully's (Gillian Anderson) son William in Wednesday's episode. When the agents investigate a case in which two teenage girls attacked each other thinking they had each been fighting a creature known as Ghouli, they quickly discover the case is far more complicated than they ever imagined when they learn both girls had been dating Jackson Van De Kamp — a high schooler who shares the same last name of the couple who adopted William all those years ago. Unfortunately, before th ... [Continua a leggere]

After nearly 16 years, Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Mulder (David Duchovny) finally reunited with William (Miles Robbins), who is now known as Jackson Van De Kamp... albeit with a very X-Files twist. The duo wound up back in their son's orbit thanks to an open X-file and Scully's mysterious vision, but things quickly turned tragic when it appeared he had died. However, it turned out that William's powers were greater than anyone anticipated: He was able to project images to other people to manipulate their perception of what was going on, thus tricking everyone into thinking he was ... [Continua a leggere]

Fans of The X-Files know that the writing team of James Wong and Glen Morgan has produced some of the creepiest episodes of the series. "Squeeze," "Tooms," "Home" -- they all rank as series classics, which are still referenced with reverence today. The duo actually left to create their own series, Space: Above and Beyond (1996), but remained in the world of Chris Carter shows, writing episodes of The X-Files until 1997, and for the series, Millennium and The Lone Gunmen. Wong and Morgan also started the Final Destination franchise, co-writing the first and third films, with Wong directing the ... [Continua a leggere]

C’è qualcosa che differenzia X-Files da tutte le altre serie TV: la capacità di Chris Carter di trasformare tutto in qualcosa di nuovo. Qualcosa in perfetto stile X-Files. Ogni tematica, nella serie, ha preso spunto dalla tradizione (letteraria, folkloristica, popolare…) aggiungendo un tocco di originalità. Ecco quindi che le visioni del futuro di Dana Scully non sono come tutte le altre visioni viste al cinema e in TV: rappresentano un mix fra presente, passato e futuro. Scully sa cosa succederà ma sa anche come questo la fa sentire, perché l&r ... [Continua a leggere]

I primi minuti della stagione 11 di X-Files , in prima assoluta su FOX dal 29 gennaio, sono suoi: dell'uomo che Fuma. Se il primo episodio della miniserie evento del 2016, poi divenuta la decima stagione, ci raccontava la storia di X-Files e del mondo con la voce e il punto di vista di Fox Mulder, ora è tutto diverso. Tutto riscritto. Dalla geniale - e provocatoria - immagine dell'Uomo che Fuma (vero nome: Carl Gerhardt Bush) in studio mentre si registra il finto sbarco sulla Luna, con un esplicito omaggio al film-capolavoro Capricorn One, fino a Donald Trump e Kim Jong-un. Passando a ... [Continua a leggere]