I'm watch episode 3 of season 2
Why is this show so comfy?

>>212886313 (OP)
>why do I enjoy one of the most popular tv shows of all time from an era where audiences had quality tastes
forever a mystery

>>212886445
I only watch media approved by my Rabbi and therapist.

>>212886445
>from an era where audiences had quality tastes
what's some other kino tv from that time then?

>>212886445
>the most popular tv shows of all time
The X-Files was never that popular tho. It certainly had a cult following, but it never achieved the same status among normies as something like GoT. It was more like Star Trek — a niche show among geeks.

>>212886459
You do?

>>212886496
I'm not going to spoonfeed you.

>>212886497
picrel

>>212886445
>1995: X-Files S3 - 20m viewers
>1995: The Jerry Springer Show - 33m viewers
Xfiles s3 is considered to be the best and most popular season btw.

>>212886566
>I'm not going to spoonfeed you.
why not

>>212886313 (OP)
i literally CANNOT watch this show because of scully. every time shes on screen my heart jump out of my chest

>>212886617
Because I care about your growth as a person, anon.

>>212886677
She is not that attractive in early seasons tho

>>212886313 (OP)
Gillian Anderson is hot
They hit the late 80s early 90s vibe really well
Fun monster of the week formula, but also hints of a greater overarching plot
Reminds us of a time before technology and social media drove everyone insane

>>212886313 (OP)
Hmm I shall watch x files tonight.

>>212886313 (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...

>>212886313 (OP)
man look at her go

the first 5 seasons is just scully seeing the most supernatural unexplainable shit imaginable and still trying to find rational explanations for it

Tfw still remember the episodes 2 well 2 rewatch from e1 again this year :A;

>>212886497
It DID. That was actually the problem. It became huge JUST as they switched to California and the show quality fell off a cliff.

>>212888432
kek

>>212886497
It was much more popular than Trek. It was a big pop culture hit but more of a "cool" show than hugely popular. It THEN became hugely popular. But that coincided with it becoming sub-standard. Unlike Trek it's later seasons had HUGE numbers (not even GoT had numbers that large) and tons of emmys and golden globes (obviously something Trek never had).

>>212886616
>GoT 19 million views
Bow down drama fags.

>>212886497
>not popular
?????????????????????
GoT level consoom culture didn't exist back then
literally everyone watched X-files in the 90s tho
every single Sunday at 9pm, start doing my homework and watching the x-files at the same time

>>212888208
Accurate. Also Mulder going muh sister every few seasons

You'll Lovett just like Lyle
And then we'll do it doggy style
So we can both watch X-Files

>>212886566
That's because audiences had shit taste aside from just this but you don't want to admit it you insecure pleb

>>212886497
>The X-Files was never that popular tho.

Retarded zoomer, you werent even there.

>>212888566
Is the the season David Duchovny leaves, because it doesn't work without him. Robert Patrick's character sucks and reeks of "we need to explain everything for new viewers".

>>212886497
lmao it put Fox Network on the map and proved it could be more than just The Simpsons channel. All the newstands were full of magazines with either Duchovny or Gillian or both's faces on it. The first movie made 190 millions at the box office in 1998, which was something unheard of for basically just a two hour long episode of a show that was still airing on tv.

>>212888467
Cozy

>>212890189
I was annoyed by the addition of the Mexican lady.

>>212886313 (OP)
Actors with top tier chemistry solving mysteries has always been S Tier Kino and makes for the comfiest shows. The writing doesn't even have to super strong as long as they build mood and ambience and setting correctly.
>X-files
>Smallville
>Early Supernatural
I would like to say many such instances but unfortunately there is not.

>>212890375
>Actors with top tier chemistry
Duchovny is a wet blanket and they have pretty much no chemistry because they hated each other in real life. Also you forgot to mention Castle, the superior x-files.

>>212890311
96 or 2016 are peak.
>>212890341
I feel like they should have just tried for another spin off with the new characters. They didn't work as replacements.

>>212888208
It was her job and she needed to keep Mulder tethered to reality, or else he'd destroy his reputation by falling for some poorly made ayylmao "evidence" and get the X-Files closed down for good. They explain it in the show several times.

>>212890311
Which Gillian Anderson are you today?

>>212890407
>Castle, the superior x-files.
Fucking rancid.

>>212886497
Are you just trolling or were you not around back then? Everyone and their grandmothers were watching X-Files.

>>212888208
To be fair, Scully really doesn't see anything supernatural herself until the later seasons.
Early seasons always shows us and Mulder, but not Scully if you pay attention to it. She's always somewhere else or just a few seconds late to actually SEE it.
Even the alien embryo at the end of season 1 might as well just be a deformed human fetus.

>>212888566
Season 6 is still pretty solid, though a lot more comedic for whatever reason. Season 7 is subpar with a handful of gems (I like "Closure" for the most part). Season 8 is good. Season 9 is terrible.

>>212890407
wtf are you on, millions were watching waiting for Mulder and Scully to kiss. To this day it's one of the pairing with the most fanfictions, not to mention their old fangirls coined the term "shipping".
No one cares if the actors couldn't stand each other, you should know since you mentioned Castle. It's very likely they hate-fucked anyway.

>>212890556
I was half joking, I just started watching it 4 episodes in and it's entertaining slop.
Rick Castle is basically Garth Marenghi but rich.

>>212890311
I love her

>>212890678
>teenagers and single mothers were shipping scully and mulder that means they had on-screen chemistry

>>212888208
I like that she was also a Catholic

>>212890596
There's some supernatural stuff se encounters first hand in the first season. On the epsiode her father dies, she sees a manifestation of him and then the serial killer who is claming to be a conduit for the dead ends up telling stuff to her that comes true.

But, of course, she can explain them all by her own trauma and by the fact that the killer was a manipulative mastermind, who could have found out stuff and even planned them himself.

Especially on the earlier seasons she is always given a good enough of a reason to remain a sceptic, either by not seeing things herself or by some other more reasonable explanation.

>>212886497
Nielson ratings were solid back then, especially considering it was on Fox which was considered a 2nd tier network not part of the top 3 (ABC, CBS, NBC). By season 5 it was regularly over 20. It was huge in the coveted 18-49 demographic and on the cheaper Fox which made it a godsend for advertisers.

>>212890791
Isn't it Mulder who convinces her that it isn't supernatural and that he's lying in the serial killer episode?
Also Brad Dourif kills it in that role as always.

>>212890407
>Castle, the superior x-files.

Dana Scully stole my heart

>>212890736
The X-files audience was majority male.

>>212888208
>Muldir just because we saw angels last week DOESNT meant werewolves exist

Let's face it any overarching storyline and alien episode is boomer conspiracy trash, most monster of the week episodes are 10/10 though.

>>212890881
Yeah, Mulder doesn't trust him as he knows he has beef with him, as it was his profile that ended up killer getting caught and send to the death row.

And Douriff is great in the role.

The whiplash in how enjoyable The X-Files is when you go from dogshit melodramatic Myth Arc episodes to fun Monster of the Week episodes is unreal.

>>212890189
It went to shit before Duchovny left. 1 or 2 good episodes. Basically when they switched from atmospheric and gloomy Canada to generic and boring L.A.

>>212891067
>>212891026
People must have loved the lore trash, because they kept making it the focus. Though I've never met any of these people

The X-Files
Stargate SG-1
Seinfeld

my trifecta of comfy 90s kinos that I re-watch almost yearly

I don't usually make it past season 6 of the x-files though, it really starts to become a chore after season 7 especially and 8-9 just aren't really worth watching even if they're not that bad. The reboot seasons are trash and can be ignored completely outside of 1 or 2 episodes.

>>212890736
I'm sorry you were born blind.

>>212891134
I honestly don't know, stopped watching Supernatural like 4 or 5 seasons in for the same reason, instead of hunting ghosts and mythical creatures across the US every episode turned in to fighting a demon (human with different color eyes).

I was a Junior in high school when X-Files first started, and at my school it caught on like wildfire. About halfway through the season we had a group of 8 friends that were now regularly going over to the rich friend's house every Friday night to watch X-Files at 9pm because he had a 32" TV which at that time was massive to all of us. We would then head out to Denny's afterwards to grab food. Even for reruns we would watch still looking for stuff we missed during the original broadcast. I remember us being pissed because when they were showing the 2nd part of season 1 they didn't show new episodes for 3 weeks because 1 fell on Christmas Eve, and another on New Year's day. They always did this though, even season 2 because it was "around Christmas/New years" they took a break from new episodes. Execs didn't like showing new episodes around any Holidays. Fucking Bullshit. I think also one fell on Thanksgiving too that year so no new episode. We were up to 10 friends my Senior year, and season 2 was even more Kino than season 1. It was just as popular through college as well, though by the time I graduated it had the movie and then Season 6 and the tonal change of moving to Vancouver. I still think up through 6 is fully watchable, 7 is only really where it began to drastically fall off.

Zoomers can't even understand something like this I think, the experience of watching shows like this with your close friends and talking about it and the excitement of waiting for the next episode. Some times it was a stinker, but even then it was always fun. Comfy as fuck.

>>212891026
The mytharc episodes are a huge part of why the show was as good as if was for the first several seasons. Even later seasons have occasional mytharc winners.

>>212890311
>tfw you will never be a forward young man who is seduced by 40-something prime semen demon Gillian Anderson

Maybe in the next life *cocks gun*

>>212891450
Calm down gramps, what are you 50?
waiting weeks for a new episode is actually vastly inferior to just binging a season in a day or two.
Also I would never watched something I actually enjoyed and was serious about with friends, that's what slop is for.

>>212891822
>Also I would never watched something I actually enjoyed and was serious about with friends, that's what slop is for.
ngmi

>>212886497
X-Files werent true hit untill around S3, but after that it was legit global phenomena shit everyone taked about.

>>212888405
>Mulder I killed another hook...succubus

>>212888405
Has anyone ever pulled off that style of bald better in the history of television?

back in 2014 i finished all 9 seasons in like 12 days
fuckng kino series

I want to watch it but I want to know one thing. Is that actually about supernatural? Or do they try to solve the crimes which look like supernatural?

>>212892183
Both

>>212892183
>Is that actually about supernatural? Or do they try to solve the crimes which look like supernatural?
It kind of straddles between the 2. It's a mix. Sometimes it ends up being clearly the latter, but often it implies that the "plausible explanation" is bullshit, or Mulder is the only person that sees the Supernatural parts.

Sorry bros, I love monster of the week type episodes over mytharc.

>>212886445
x files is literally the only show from the 90s that you can compare with the best shows from last decade. Audiences had zero taste back then

>>212886497
>The X-Files was never that popular tho.
are you unironically underage?

>>212892330
Twin Peaks.

>>212891026
I liked the Syndicate, CSM, Deep Throat, secret labs and stern-looking hitmen, but the story was often convoluted and didn't really lead anywhere.
For instance I kind of like the Nisei/731 two-parter (especially the fake NSA agent) but the story doesn't make much sense.

>>212891822
And this is why society is dogshit now.

>could get a gf who looks a little like scully
>reject her because I have the feeling that she will be a controlling bitch
opinions? probably could get her back

>>212892412
>twin peaks
>good

>>212886313 (OP)
>Why is this show so comfy?

The Russians probably did use electro-encephalographic techniques. So did other countries for that matter.

>>212886313 (OP)
sex with gilly

>>212892382
The early X-files was absolutely niche. It didn't really explode until the mid/late 90s. Maybe that was what he was trying to say?

>>212886313 (OP)
Stop watching now. Or you will develop a Scully boner.

>>212892029

>>212891067
only retards and people who watched it on the telly when it was airing think mytharc is worse than motw. And it's because they didn't catch all the episodes and couldn't follow it or they are retards and couldn't follow it

>>212890311
What anti-wall alien tech is she using?

>>212892516
>I'm acting!
I hate him, if he wasn't jewish and tall he would never have an acting career.

>>212890450

>>212892595
The secret to not getting walled as woman is being an absolute cockslut.

See, if you stop getting fucked regularly your body says "oh, I guess we're out of the game, time to shut it down" and then your vag dries up and your hormone levels drop off and you shrivel up like a prune because there's no point in keeping that whole system up and running if you're not going to actually use it. But if you're getting dicked down daily the juices keep flowing, so to speak.

>>212888298
Incredibly heavy MythArc bias in this chart.

>>212886313 (OP)

>>212888298
Where is the chart after Season 6?

>>212892586
I've seen the whole thing in order. The Myth Arc is dogshit. Most of those episodes past the 1st season are bad on their own merits and they only get worse in the context of the show as a whole.

>>212886497
> Sunday at 9pm, start doing my homework and watching the x-files at the same time
that seems rather late, how old were you

>>212893124
I hated that they moved from Friday night. Friday 9pm was the perfect timeslot for this show, but I guess Sunday was less competitive.

>>212892962
Never seen that one. Neat.

>>212893495
I take she is playing that X-files FMV game there.

>>212893311
It's the other way around. In tv executives' eyes Friday is the graveyard slot where shows were sent to die. X-Files was put there since the beginning and yet managed to do so well, keep increasing viewership, getting great critics reviews and word of mouth that they graduated it to Sunday, which was the most coveted slot since it benefitted from "the watercooler effect" (people talking about the previous episode with their coworkers and spreading more word of mouth).
All things lost nowadays with streaming and binge watching.

>>212886313 (OP)
>I am watch episode 3 of season 2

How are you this episode?

>>212886313 (OP)
Remastering previously tape-edited shows to HD from the original film elements does wonders in making them more watchable
Both Fraiser and the OG Dallas got HD remasters in the past year and it's shocking what a difference going from fuzzy potato quality to modern sharpness does
>>212891026
the mythology arc was tolerable at first because it actually felt like it was leading somewhere
but once you notice they keep piling on questions without ever answering anything you can't un-notice it and the storyline becomes total trash by the end of the first run (season 5 which was supposed to be the final season which lead into the movie)

>>212893610
I was unaware such a thing existed.

>>212886313 (OP)
Scully is my ideal woman and it's such a shame women don't model themselves after her

>>212886496
Highlander
Xena
Twin Peaks

>>212893495

>>212894995
Two different games, I should play them someday.

>>212895188
I know. Resist or Serve is basically a Resident Evil clone.

>>212894625
You don't actually play as Mulder and Scully, but they are in it. Never finished it.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/1/the-x-files-game/

>>212886616
>Xfiles s3 is considered to be the best and most popular season btw.

For a 'sci-fi' conspiratorial drama, those numbers were great. Back in 1995 Ameriburgers were obsessed with watching people throw chairs at each other.

>>212892921
As there should be. They're some of the best episodes in the show for the first handful of seasons.

For me it's the agent Skinner sends to reveal Cancer man's address to Mulder

>>212895348
>1998
>PC
I did not expect that. I think it was that year I kinda stopped playing video games. But good to know I guess.

>>212886497
how does it feel to just talk out your ass on the internet? Do you feel like that burst of half of a lie was worth any significance in your mind? Your mind is a tiny tiny shell. Go back to the work on Monday and talk about your opinion on the new jurassic park movie you little mouth breathing faggot

>>212896092
>$3/pack
Goddamn them were better times.

>Cu- I mean Scully uhhhh
>*x-files theme plays*

>>212886313 (OP)
pregnant scully is so cute

>>212895188
Resist or serve is definitely worth checking out

>>212886497
>The X-Files was never that popular tho.
It was in the top 15 of the ratings for three years strait in the late 90s

>>212894625
This question bothers me quite a lot. It's actually very difficult to answer. I would probably feel no different. Also I can't even remember what I had for breakfast

>>212888208
Season 1 literally ends with her seeing an alien homunculus for herself and admitting to Mulder she was wrong.

>>212888405
>As of right now I'm official reopening the epstein files.

>>212888544
>This sci-fi show about paranormal shit is just a little too hard to believe.
Were boomers always this retarded?

>>212886616
JER-RY
JER-RY
JER-RY

>>212888566
It was Duchovny's fault. He wanted to be in Hollywood now that he was hot shit and getting more offers, and also he supposedly hated living in rainy Vancouver. Carter and the writers knew the show was getting stale and even tried to pull a coup on Fox and end the story arc in season 7, but the network wouldn't let it go.

>>212896814
>Moulder the client list do not exist.
>You asked me to investigate it. You said it was on your desk.
>No, I said the epstein files were.

Is this show actually spooky or tongue in cheek?

>>212897103
Yes

>>212897124
Reddit

>>212897103
No it's not spooky it's a mystery show not a scary thriller show.

>>212886496
With modern TV shows, monster-of-the-week seems like a forlorn concept, they seem like episodically segmented movies most of the time, complete with better cinematography and visuals.

>>212897103
When it first aired it had moments of genuine spook. It's just goofy and clumsy now.
But when it 1st aired there were genuinely spooky episodes, and intentionally goofy episodes. It was hokey.

Season 5 was fucking awful, I honestly didn't care much after that since everyone agrees it's downhill from there.
But when X-Files does it right, it still beats everything on tv/streaming.

>>212893495
she looks like a ditzy headed bimbo there. mean, but true. that's okay. bimbos are adorable in their own right. kino moment.

>>212897669
She is a bimbo.

is this show scary? I want to watch it with muh wife

>>212897267
>complete with better cinematography and visuals
On average. I think The X-Files stands up against almost anything shot today, though.

>>212893124
was in middle school
what time do zoomies do homework?

>>212889226
Sunday night was garbage night and I had to take the garbage down the long dark driveway (grew up richfag) by myself after watching xfiles. Sprinting back up, I must have just barely missed being attacked by monsters

>>212886566
THR....AAAAIIGH GLIESAAHH

>>212888467
skinner was so fucking based

>>212897893
some episodes can be, but mine doesn't get too scared usually

>>212897297
I've been rewatching it and I can say the first season is neither goofy or clumsy for the most part. It has bad episodes, sure, but as a whole, it holds up surprsingly well.