With The X-Cast moving on to coverage of the seventh season of The X-Files, and the legacy of Millennium lingering on, I was thrilled to be invited back on to talk about the episode Orison, which feels in many ways like Millennium folding back into The X-Files – it marks the first X-Files script from former Millennium showrunner Chip Johannessen and the return of the serial killer (“death fetishist”) Donny Pfaster.
Orison marks one of the rare times that The X-Files has returned to a pre-existing monster outside of the mythology; the only other major examples are the first season episode Tooms and the fifth season episode Kitsunegari. However, what’s particularly striking about Orison is that Donnie Pfaster is just one facet of an episode that has a lot going. In many ways, it feels like a companion piece to Johannessen’s third season scripts for Millennium, episodes like Saturn Dreaming of Mercury and Bardo Thodol.
You can listen to the episode here, or click the link below.
You might be interested in our reviews of the seventh season of The X-Files:
- The Sixth Extinction
- X-tra: Harsh Realm – Pilot
- The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
- Hungry
- X-tra: Harsh Realm – Inga Fossa
- Millennium
- Rush
- The Goldberg Variation
- Orison
- X-tra: The X-Cast X-Files Podwatch – Episode #75
- X-tra: The X-Cast – Season 7, Episode 7
- The Amazing Maleeni
- Signs and Wonders
- Sein und Zeit
- Closure
- X-Cops
- First Person Shooter
- Theef
- En Ami
- Chimera
- all things
- Brand X
- X-tra: Harsh Realm – Reunion
- Hollywood A.D.
- Fight Club
- Je Souhaite
- Requiem
- X-tra: Harsh Realm – Camera Obscura
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