I’m back on The X-Cast this week, to cover a very special episode. Pusher is host Tony Black’s favourite episode, and we recorded this close to his birthday. So no pressure, then.
Pusher has long been a favourite of mine as well, a crackerjack suspense-filled episode from the powerhouse team of writer Vince Gilligan and director Rob Bowman. It’s an episode that works very well both within the confines of The X-Files itself and beyond. Even more than Soft Light, it is an episode that informs a lot of Gilligan’s core themes and ideas going forward. There is a surprising amount of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul to be found in the episode, for example.
The truth is in here. You can listen to the episode here, or click the link below.
You might be interested in our other reviews of the third season of The X-Files:
- The Blessing Way
- Paper Clip
- D.P.O.
- Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose
- The List
- 2shy
- The Walk
- Oubliette
- Nisei
- 731
- Revelations
- X-tra: (Topps) The Pit
- War of the Coprophages
- Syzygy
- Grotesque
- Piper Maru
- Apocrypha
- Pusher
- X-tra: (Topps) #13 – One Player Only
- X-tra: The X-Cast X-Files Podwatch – Episode #34
- X-tra: The X-Cast – Season 3, Episode 17
- Teso Dos Bichos
- Hell Money
- Jose Chung’s “From Outer Space”
- X-tra: (Topps) #14 – Falling
- Avatar
- Quagmire
- Wetwired
- Talitha Cumi
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