Arcadia. L’idilliaca comunità in cui tutto sembra perfetto. Il quartiere residenziale dei vostri sogni. La Wisteria Lane degli anni Novanta. Oppure no? Oppure c'è un'altra Arcadia: l'anticamera dell’inferno. Il simbolo di una perfezione apparente in cui forma e sostanza sono agli antipodi. In uno degli episodi più amati e celebrati dai fan e dalla critica, Mulder e Scully sono sotto copertura. Si trasferiscono ad Arcadia, impersonando una coppia sposata, per indagare sulla misteriosa sparizione di alcuni residenti nelle splendide case del posto. Assumono le id ... [Continua a leggere]

Walter Skinner corre sul luogo di un sequestro per parlare con la polizia che circonda l’edificio: un uomo con una bomba addosso tiene in ostaggio i clienti di una banca. Fra loro ci sono anche Mulder e Scully. Lui è ferito, sembra che gli abbiano sparato. Lei gli sorregge la testa e preme sulla ferita. Cerca di convincere l’uomo con la bomba a lasciarli andare, ma non ci riesce: l’interruttore scatta e la bomba esplode. Insieme all’intero edificio. Mentre un incredulo e sconvolto Skinner assiste impotente alla scena. Siamo di fronte a un Lunedì (qu ... [Continua a leggere]

L’abbiamo aspettato tutti, per anni, e poi è arrivato. Ma non era lui. Non era “il” bacio. Non era quello che avrebbe cambiato tutto, che avrebbe fatto discutere in lungo e in largo dell’evoluzione nel rapporto fra Mulder e Scully. Ciononostante, anche questo ha fatto la sua figura. Soprattutto perché, dopo che Mulder stampa un bacio d’addio sulla bocca di Scully, si becca un cazzotto in risposta. O dovrei dire “sulla bocca della donna che sembra Scully, ma non lo è”. Perché qui siamo nel Triangolo delle Bermude, in una sor ... [Continua a leggere]

Frank Spotnitz knows The Truth. Chris Carter, creator of the paranoia-prone Fox drama The X-Files, has shared with Spotnitz his vision for what has come to be called The Mythology. That places Spotnitz, a Phoenix native and one of the show’s executive producers, inside a tiny band of Earthlings who knows how the series’ long-running alien-invasion story arc will resolve itself a year from now. For the record, he’s not sharing. Would you? After tonight’s season finale, only 22 episodes of The X-Files remain. According to Spotnitz, six or seven of them wi ... [Continua a leggere]

There’s something different about TXF this year. By all rights, a series in its sixth season should be flagging, as the writers run short of ideas, the actors lose their energy and settings and scenarios begin to look frustratingly familiar. Furthermore, following in the wake of last year’s blockbuster movie, one would expect a sense of anti-climax, a feeling that it’s all so much smaller and less significant on the tv screen. This hasn’t happened. Against the odds, fans and critics have been quick to praise the latest series as one of the best yet, which ... [Continua a leggere]

Q: Any news about another X-Files movie? A: There will be a second X-Files movie as far as I am concerned. But it won’t be on this summer’s hiatus. It seems like the actors are very excited to do it. It’s just a matter of finding the time, and I think it would either come out in the summer of 2001 or possibly 2002. It would have been great to culminate the series and go right into the next big movie. I think there will be a year, or possibly two years in between. Q: What do you mean, “culminate”? A: Next year is probably the last year of The X-Files. ... [Continua a leggere]

PASADENA – Ultimately, we may never know if the truth is out there. Chris Carter, the man who created “The X-Files” – which is now in its sixth season – said it’s highly unlikely that the show will go beyond a seventh season, so he’s going to start telling the truth. Of course, that’s a little like a sheep-herding young man we all know crying wolf for the 99th time. Fox is touting a special two-parter on Feb. 7 and 14 – in the heart of sweeps – that “reveals the series’ deepest secrets.” In fact, Fox say ... [Continua a leggere]

Two FBI agents, Mulder and Scully, were introduced to the airwaves in 1993 with little fanfare and virtually no expectations. The same can’t be said six years later. Expectations for The X-Files are as high as ever, even as outside dramas swirl around the series (a pending lawsuit against Twentieth Century Fox brought by star David Duchovny; the cancellation of series creator Chris Carter’s new show, Harsh Realm; uncertainty whether or not there will be an eighth season).While the long-term future of The X-Files and its intrepid agents (played by Duchovny and Gillia ... [Continua a leggere]