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Wrapping up a late-first-season exploration of Millennium with the incomparable Christopher Knowles, I was thrilled to pop onto The Time is Now to discuss Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions.

In case the title doesn’t give the game away, Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions is a delightfully weird episode of television. It finds Frank Black confronting the loss of his best friend Bob Bletcher by becoming embroiled in an epic and existential conflict that exists at the very limits of his understanding. It might involve a ritualistic killer and a corrupt lawyer, but it may also involve renegade angels and the forces of hell operating on the mortal plane. The beauty of Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions lies in the ambiguity.

Indeed, that ambiguity was a huge part of the fun in discussing the episode with Chris. I think we both had slightly different reads on what the episode was about and where it was coming from, which speaks to its strength as an episode of television. It’s a staggering piece of work, one that obviously lays the groundwork for Patient X and The Red and the Black in the fifth season of The X-Files.

As ever, you can listen to the episode here, subscribe to the podcast here, or click the link below.

You might be interested in our other reviews of the first season of Millennium:

• Pilot
  • This Is Who We Are: The X-Files – Unruhe
  • This Is Who We Are: The Time is Now – Season 1, Episode 1
• Gehenna
  • This Is Who We Are: The Time is Now – Season 1, Episode 2
• Dead Letters
  • This Is Who We Are: The X-Files – The Field Where We Died
• The Judge
• 5-2-2-6-6-6
  • This Is Who We Are: The X-Files – Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man
• Kingdom Come
• Blood Relatives
• The Well-Worn Lock
  • This Is Who We Are: The X-Files – Paper Hearts
• Wide Open
• The Wild and the Innocent
• Weeds
• Loin Like a Hunting Flame
• Force Majeure
  • This Is Who We Are: The Time is Now – Season 1, Episode 13
• The Thin White Line
  • This Is Who We Are: The X-Files – Never Again
  • This Is Who We Are: The Time is Now – Season 1, Episode 14
• Sacrament
• Covenant
• Walkabout
  • This Is Who We Are: The Time is Now – Season 1, Episode 17
• Lamentation
  • This Is Who We Are: The X-Files – Tempus Fugit
  • This Is Who We Are: The Time is Now – Season 1, Episode 18
• Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions
  • This Is Who We Are: The X-Files – Max
  • This Is Who We Are: The Time is Now – Season 1, Episode 19
• Broken World
• Maranatha
• Paper Dove
  • This Is Who We Are: The X-Files – Gethsemane

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