The X-Files 31 days of Halloween

Wallowing in the misery of the latest Trump news, I decided I needed a distraction—so I turned to The X-Files. I ended up watching (and re-watching) the entire series, only to realize how remarkably relevant it feels to the current American moment. To celebrate October and Halloween, I’ve gathered some of the best scholars of The X-Files to help me create a daily episode recommendation guide, which I’ll be posting—one per day—on Bluesky and I'll create a more permanent home to the guide here on this blog..

 The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The original series aired from September 10, 1993, to May 19, 2002, on Fox, spanning nine seasons, with 202 episodes. A tenth season of six episodes ran from January to February 2016. Following the ratings success of this revival, The X-Files returned for an eleventh season of ten episodes, which ran from January to March 2018. In addition to the television series, two feature films have been released: the 1998 film The X-Files and the stand-alone film The X-Files: I Want to Believe, released in 2008, six years after the original television run ended. 

List of 218 X-Files episode on Wikipedia