Continuing on from our discussion of Patient X last week, I was thrilled to join the sensational Kurt North on The X-Cast to discuss the second half of my second favourite mythology two-parter, The Red and the Black.
This was a fun and wide-ranging discussion of the two-parter, which really leaned into the sort of goofy epic stuff that I loved about The X-Files at its peak, the sort of free-wheeling “all ideas at the wall” approach to plotting that managed to fold in concepts like an existential “war in heaven” while recycling ideas from Millennium for a blockbuster adventure that seemed to be as interested in setting up Two Fathers and One Son as it was in lining up with the pending release of The X-Files: Fight the Future. There’s an enjoyable ambition to the two-parter, which has largely been missing from the mythology since Talitha Cumi.
As ever, I hope you enjoy. You can listen to the episode here, or click the link below.
You might be interested in our reviews of the fifth season of The X-Files:
- Redux I
- X-tra: (Topps) Afterflight
- X-tra: (Topps) #33 – Soma
- X-tra: Millennium – The Beginning and the End
- X-tra: The X-Cast – Season 5, Episode 1
- Redux II
- Unusual Suspects
- Detour
- X-tra: (Topps) #34 – Skybuster
- The Post-Modern Prometheus
- Christmas Carol
- Emily
- X-tra: (Topps) #35-36 – N.D.E.
- Kitsunegari
- Schizogeny
- Chinga
- Kill Switch
- X-tra: Millennium – The Mikado
- X-tra: Season One (Topps) #5 – Ice
- Bad Blood
- Patient X
- X-tra: Millennium – Owls
- X-tra: (Topps) Ground Zero #1-4
- X-tra: The X-Cast – Season 5, Episode 13
- The Red and the Black
- X-tra: Millennium – Roosters
- X-tra: Season One (Topps) #6 – Space
- X-tra: The X-Cast – Season 5, Episode 14
- Travelers
- Mind’s Eye
- X-tra: Season One (Topps) #7 – Fire
- All Souls
- The Pine Bluff Variant
- Folie à Deux
- The End
- X-tra: Millennium – The Fourth Horseman
- X-tra: Millennium – The Time is Now
- X-tra: Season One (Topps) #8 – Beyond the Sea
- X-tra: The X-Files Game
- X-tra: The X-Files – Fight the Future
- X-tra: Season One (Topps) #9 – Shadows
- X-tra: (Topps) #41 – Severed
- X-tra: The X-Cast X-Files Podwatch – Episode #59
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