This man's delivery is Neil Breen level. So why do I find him such a compelling watch?

Right face, right body language, right voice, right tv show, right theme, right score... everything was right in that case.

>>212450469 (OP)
This is an excellent question. In my personal opinion, Gillian holds the show together and ((Duchovny)) could have easily been played by someone else and the show would have still been fine.

>>212450469 (OP)
It's Sunday night, I am curled up in my room
The TV light fills my heart like a balloon
I hold it in as best I can
I know I'm just another fan
But I can't help feeling I could love this secret agent man
And I can't...

Wait any more for him to discover me
I got it bad for David Duchovny
David Duchovny, why won't you love me?
Why won't you love me?

My friends all tell me,
"Girl, you know it's just a show,"
But deep within his eyes
I see me wrapped up like a bow
Watching the sky for a sign
The FBI is on my mind
I'm waiting for the day
When my lucky stars align
In the form of...

David Duchovny floating above me
In the alien light of the spaceship of love, I need
David Duchovny hovering above me
American Heathcliff, brooding and comely
David Duchovny, why won't you love me?
Why won't you love me?
Why won't you love me?

So smooth and so smart
He's abducted my heart
And I'm falling apart
From the looks I recieve
From those eyes I can't leave
Well you can say I'm naive
But he told me to believe...

Ooooooooo...

My bags are packed, I am ready for my flight
Want to put an end to my daydream days and sleepless nights
Sitting like a mindless clone
Wishing he would tap my phone
Just to hear the breath of the man, the myth, the monotone
And I would say...

David Duchovny, why won't you love me?
Why won't you love me? Why won't you love me?
David Duchovny, why won't you love me?
Why won't you love me? Why won't you love me?
David Duchovny I want you to love me
To kiss and to hug me, debrief and debug me
David Duchovny I know you could love me
I'm sweet and I'm cuddly - I'm gonna kill Scully!
David Duchovny, why won't you love me?
Why won't you love me? Why won't you love me?

Yeah...

I'll be waiting...
In Nevada...

>>212450897
To be fair, they do have an explicable chemistry considering one of them appears to have the personality of a well-made broom.

>>212450897
>>212451334
You know they were fucking, right?

>>212450897
it's a jew. it:s the one they wanted. nothing to do with talent
same energy as the incredibly unfunny self aware talentless idiots on snl

>>212451471
I know, but I'm more baffled by how the chemistry actually succeeds in coming across on screen as early as episode 1, when Duchovny delivers lines like a 6 year old reading from a page with their finger along the underside of each word.

he's got that 90s charm

>>212451547
Because they were both raging sex fiends, and they recognised it in each other. David Duchovny has literally checked himself into detox to try and deal with sex addiction and Gillian Anderson talks openly about the shit she used to get up to from her middle school days.
They probably fucked the first day they met. It was probably amazing to meet someone who was as dysfunctional as you in the same way.

>>212450469 (OP)
It works for being mulder. That sex show where he fucks everyone in Hollywood was meh, but he was kind of funny in Zoolander and that alien comedy movie.

>>212451484
And of course the show is written so he is brilliant and always right. Like hes supposed to be this Colombo type character but it just doesnt work for me. Hard to see him as brilliant when the acting and delivery is so poor as this anon said: >>212451547

>>212451822
To be fair, now that I think about it, it worked perfectly in Zoolander and Evolution. What the fuck? How does he keep doing it?

I havent seen the sex show outside of webms on here that don't really feature Duchovny in them.

>>212450469 (OP)
He has an interesting cadence and tempo. He often answers questions too fast or otherwise breaks the rules for tv conversation. This makes him exciting to watch. The stop start erratic nature comes across and pairs up well with his costar

He comes across as if he's just slightly mentally ill.

>>212451638
I love that they were sex obsessed freaks, but their characters were volcels.

>>212451846
That's not the character at all. He's a borderline incompetent agent, who is just manically obsessed with his search for the truth.

>>212453384
he is described as the best analyst in the violent crime division and top of his class at Oxford tho

>>212453435
That was before though. His whole fixation on the UFO question is supposed to have unraveled him, by the time the show starts.

>>212451035
DAVID DUCHOVNY WHY WONT YOU LOVE ME
https://youtu.be/zg_vVKcVYbo?si=fijpV2KzVlOEWaDj

>>212450469 (OP)
The stilted line reads make sense if you head canon Mulder as autistic
>Lifelong obsession with aliens
>Monotone voice
>Only friends are other spergs (Lone Gunmen)
>Often misses social cues
>No interest in society’s expectations of him or his beliefs

>>212453435
He got relegated to the basement, anon.

>>212453291
That was sexy in the 90s

>>212453611
So he gets to investigate werewolves with his qt work wife instead of running cover for pedophilles and big corporations, sounds comfy as fuck

>>212453723
In the reboot, the other agents will make fun of him for chasing Slenderman instead of instigating school shootings and domestic terror attacks.

>>212450469 (OP)
because he's spooky