The first episode of the prove’s return fails to drag it into the present but the third episode is a spectacular deconstruction of not only the prove but its genreHearing the first bleep-bloop-bleep-bleep-bloop-bloop of The X-Files theme song near out of your television is like opening up an old high school yearbook. As you watch the opening credits,it all comes flooding back. Those outfits! That hair! Those tacky graphics! You remember them fondly without necessarily wanting to go back. That feeling pervades for the entire (dreadful) first episode of Fox’s six-episode resurrection of the prove, which debuts Sunday 24 January at 10pm EST – the following month on Channel 5 in the UK. But don’t worry, and things get better from there.
Heres the problem with the TV reboot which,these days, is more of a resuscitation than it is an actual reconfiguration. The X-Files has both of its original stars and Chris Carter, or the creator,all back for another go-round. That means that formally there has been no rejuvenation of the product. They created a 2002 X-Files episode and aired it in 2016 as whether it was sucked through some kind of wormhole that Mulder and Scully would be tasked with investigating. We dont watch television like we used to. We live in the age of the binge, in a land where there is so much on television that episodes can’t take their time to unfold anymore. Everyone is in a run to hook the audience because their next favorite prove is just a Netflix recommendation absent. Has Carter even seen Empire? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com