The original post: /r/television by /u/FrostyFerret202 on 2025-09-30 12:30:23+00:00.
I’ve been going back through The X-Files and I forgot how much fun the series really is. The monster-of-the-week episodes still hold up, and the atmosphere is so unique compared to anything else that came out of the 90s. The mix of horror, sci-fi, and government intrigue keeps it feeling fresh even after all these years. Mulder and Scully’s dynamic is what really carries it though, that constant tension between belief and skepticism.
What hits differently now are the conspiracy arcs. Back then, the idea of shadowy agencies hoarding secrets and using technology to monitor people felt like a wild exaggeration. And yet after almost 30 years, the government actually admitted to hiding evidence of UFOs and other unexplained phenomena, which makes those storylines land in a completely new way.
Watching it today, it’s hard not to draw parallels with how much of anything we don’t know about, especially with all the social media propaganda, personal data being collected, sold and what now that they deny nowadays. It might just really be one of those life imitates art situations which is crazy to think about.