The X-Cast is covering the eighth season of The X-Files. This is one of my favourite seasons of television ever, in large part because it’s a season that manages to build a convincing narrative and character arc around a very challenging production reality, and in doing so forced the show itself to evolve and change. I’m thrilled to join Carl Sweeney, Kurt North and Cathy Glinski for a discussion of the episode that draws the curtain down on the season as a whole.
Existence is an interesting episode of television. It is the season finale, and so closes out what is a phenomenal season of television in a way that is mostly satisfying. However, it’s also somewhat debatable how effective Existence is as an episode in its own right. It’s a very satisfying finale, but it’s also somewhat clumsy in how it delivers its various set-ups and pay-offs. Still, it’s an episode that is very efficient in doing what it needs to do, its relative simplicity arguably making it much more effective than the various season and series finales that would follow.
You can listen to the episode here, or click the link below.
You might be interested in our reviews of the eighth season of The X-Files:
- Within
- Without
- Patience
- Roadrunners
- Invocation
- Redrum
- Via Negativa
- Surekill
- Salvage
- Badlaa
- The Gift
- Medusa
- Per Manum
- This is Not Happening
- X-tra: The Lone Gunmen – Pilot
- X-tra: The X-Cast – Season 8, Episode 14
- DeadAlive
- Three Words
- Empedocles
- Vienen
- Alone
- Essence
- Existence
- X-tra: The Lone Gunmen – The “Cap’n Toby” Show
- X-tra: The X-Cast – Season 8, Episode 21
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