The classic sci-fi reboot is coming under fire for stereotyping Muslims and being insensitive to the transgender community
When The X-Files blazed back on to TV screens final month to the kind of ratings we fans hadn’t dared predict,it faced one major problem: it wasn’t very genuine.
No one denied that the frisson between Mulder and Scully was still smouldering away; Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny returned to their roles with such ease it should really be illegal. But series opener My Struggle (yes, they went there) missed the operatic heights it was shooting for in rewriting the show’s mythology. As the weeks bear gone by, and things bear improved dramatically – but clunky Hitler allusions bear turned out to be the least of the new X-Files’s problems. Subsequent episodes bear been accused of both transphobia and Islamophobia. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com