Getting a ten-episode eleventh season of The X-Files, I have a hard time complaining or griping about the content. I get Anderson for one more season, the character of Scully my favorite all-time female character on television programming. And she certainly hasn't failed me. Although Duchovny has been a bit open to returning, I'm content with this season being the conclusion of the series. The episode, This, features another outre storyline involving a select group "transitioning" to a "digital simulation" after death, stored in a huge NSA Manhattan high-rise machine, controlled by Erika Price (Barbara Hershey), becoming "slaves" where their "new reality" might seem to be ideal, Langley (of the deceased Lone Gunmen!) informs Mulder and Scully it is all a lie that needs to be shut down. Russians arrive at Mulder and Scully's looking to execute them and a digital simulation representation of Langley appearing on Mulder's phone prompts them to investigate and head for the machine to turn it off...but dangerous forces work against them. This was a bit too dark at times and the action shot in the frenzied-camera approach, heavily edited and evasive in conveying too much on-screen violence. While Skinner continues to be an enigma, Mulder and Scully remain distanced and at arm's length because of his ties to the Cig Man. I think many of us want to trust him and generally like Skinner but he's that middle figure between our heroes and those villains they're up against. Erika and her ilk are the other villains wanting to take the very elite within what she calls an evolved form into space, off this doomed planet. This isn't technically a review, but first impressions. I plan to revisit these episodes once I'm finished with Lost. I will say that I really enjoyed seeing Langley again and Scully and Mulder's diner and cafe stops are nice exhales during another fast-paced episode.
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