{"id":11736,"date":"2016-01-22T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=11736"},"modified":"2016-01-22T10:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:15:43","slug":"the-x-files-review-fox-revival-makes-you-believe-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/01\/22\/the-x-files-review-fox-revival-makes-you-believe-again\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The X-Files\u2019 Review: Fox Revival Makes You Believe Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/01\/the-x-files-review-david-duchovny-gillian-anderson-fox-video-1201686890\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/x-files2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Absent from the small screen nearly 14 years, The X-Files is back on Sunday on Fox right after the NFC Championship Game. With tens of millions of eyeballs likely on the football game, the event series starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson is, as my video review above says, planting a flag in America 2016 even as it wonderfully resurrects much of what made it such pivotal TV back during Bill Clinton\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Strikingly serious and silly at the same time, the six episodes are actually a lot like the original X-Files \u2014 you either go with it or you don\u2019t. And if you want to believe (to paraphrase the poster Duchovy\u2019s Fox Mulder had up in the duo\u2019s FBI HQ basement office in the original series), this X-Files is well worth opening up.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Mulder and Anderson\u2019s Dana Scully, a lot of the old gang are back from Mitch Pileggi as FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner; William B. Davis as the seemingly all-knowing and all-powerful Smoking Man; conspiracy theorists the Lone Gunmen; and of course creator Chris Carter, who wrote and directed the first episode. Then there are Truth is Out There newbies in Community\u2019s Joel McHale (so perfectly cast it hurts), Flight of the Conchords\u2019 Rhys Darby and Silicon Valley\u2019s Kumail Nanjiani among others.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/01\/the-x-files-review-david-duchovny-gillian-anderson-fox-video-1201686890\/\">[WATCH] \u2018The X-Files\u2019 Review: Fox Revival Makes You Believe Again | Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absent from the small screen nearly 14 years, The X-Files is back on Sunday on Fox right after the NFC Championship Game. With tens of millions of eyeballs likely on the football game, the event series starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson is, as my video review above says, planting a flag in America 2016 even as it wonderfully resurrects much of what made it such pivotal TV back during Bill Clinton\u2019s presidency. Strikingly serious and silly at the same time, the six episodes are actually a lot like the original X-Files \u2014 you either go with it or you don\u2019t. And if you want to believe (to paraphrase the poster Duchovy\u2019s Fox Mulder had up in the duo\u2019s FBI HQ basement office in the original series), this X-Files is well worth opening up. Besides Mulder and Anderson\u2019s Dana Scully, a lot of the old gang are back from Mitch Pileggi as FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner; William B. Davis as the seemingly all-knowing and all-powerful Smoking Man; conspiracy theorists the Lone Gunmen; and of course creator Chris Carter, who wrote and directed the first episode. Then there are Truth is Out There newbies in Community\u2019s Joel McHale (so perfectly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[1779,1960,1968,1969],"class_list":["post-11736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-x-files","tag-the-x-files","tag-x-files","tag-xfiles","tag-xfilesrevival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}