SPENCER SALBERG
“It shot blood at me! From out its eyeball, Scully! I think. It was hard for me to see because I had blood in my eyes.”
So claims Fox Mulder in the third episode of the new The X-Files—a six-episode miniseries that kicks off Sunday on Fox, reuniting FBI Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) for the first time since… well, let’s just pretend that second X-Files movie never happened. It’s in this third episode—which bears the fairly self-explanatory title “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster”—that The X-Files comes back like it hasn’t for years. Decades, even. It’s good. No, wait—it’s great. It’s The X-Files in a way that nothing else—not even The X-Files!—has been since the ’90s…