Zaki Hasan of The San Francisco Chronicle joins me to discuss a first for The X-Files...COMEDY! Well, not necessarily, but in any case this is the first darkly humorous and deeply strange episode to be written by Darin Morgan, brother of Glen Morgan. Zaki and I discuss the sociocultural impact of the series as a whole and try to place it in a modern context, before diving into the ins and outs of this episode, which is basically a whodunit that is rather easy to figure out... Though it doesn't really matter because you're really here for the compassionate sideshow spectacle that features actors playing people with deformities or enhancements, as well as actual people with these characteristics - such as 90s alternative superstars Jim Rose and The Enigma...as themselves...kind of. Anyway, it's a cool episode and it yielded a fun discussion. Dig in. Subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet   Follow Erix Antoine on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ErixAntoine/ 

Natalia Castro sits down with me to discuss this episode, which has a great concept and a great guest star in John Savage and yet... It doesn't really do it for us. Maybe the concept is too far fetched? It's weird to say that about a sci-fi show, but in a spirited discussion Natalia and I go into why that is. Why is it that X-Files can't really pull off out there concepts such as this, which are so commonplace in, say, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Make-up is also not really up to snuff is it? Anyway, good talk. Dig in. Subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet   Follow Erix Antoine on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ErixAntoine/ 

Friend of the podcast Jared Kilbourne sits down with me to discuss a weird episode written by Steve De Jarnatt and guest starring Lance Guest.  It's clear there was a lot on the minds of De Jarnatt and the showrunners, but it may not be clear to us, the viewers, exactly what that is. Well... The "message" is certainly clear. "Let's stop treating our animals like shit." But that message is presented at the expense of a coherent or particularly engaging story. Oh well... You can't win 'em all. But Jared and I still had a nice talk. Dig in. Subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet   Follow Erix Antoine on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ErixAntoine/ 

Daniel and I sit down to discuss this extremely exciting two-part episode!  Somehow, Samantha Mulder has returned... But, is it her? As per X-Files tradition, things are not quite what they seem. Meanwhile, there's an alien bounty hunter played by the bad guy from Stallone's Cobra running around stabbing clones in the back of the neck with an icepick - or something. He's also a shapeshifter...and he morphs into Robert Stack!  Mulder tries to be an action hero...and fails. And get ready for the brawl of 1995... Skinner vs. X. It's something to behold. There's thrills, spills, chills... Daniel and I can't stop talking all about this. Dig in. Subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet   Follow Erix Antoine on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ErixAntoine/  Follow Daniel Baldwin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielWBaldwin Or check out his website - http://www.theschlocketeer.com

It's voodoo time on The X-Files! Daniel and I sit down to talk about this cool, creepy episode which features some startling imagery and the baby-faced character actor from forgotten 90s procedural drama Murder One. It's come up in conversation before but it really does seem like The X-Files is two shows in one. There is the paranoid alien conspiracy serial on the one hand; and the horror anthology on the other. This is ultimately a good example of the latter. It's a fun talk. Dig in. Subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet   Follow Erix Antoine on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ErixAntoine/  Follow Daniel Baldwin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielWBaldwin Or check out his website - http://www.theschlocketeer.com

It's SATANIC PANIC TIME on The X-Files! The Pensky File's Clay McCormack sits down with me to discuss this fun episode about a New Hampshire high school run by a cult of devil worshippers. I mean, there's a lot to talk about you know what I'm saying? We discuss the ins and outs of this particular episode... what works and what doesn't. For the most part, it does work. But it falls prey to the typical X-Files problem of overstuffing your episode with ideas that can't be properly concluded in just 45 minutes.  We also discuss matters of context... would an episode like this even be done on a modern genre show? What is the modern day equivalent of "Satanic Panic." Have the paranoid concerns usually reserved for the tabloid set become too "real" to be the meat of an escapist horror film? Anyway... it's a good talk.  Dig in. Follow Clay on Twitter @deadmeatcomic or Instagram @cmccormack414 And also be sure to check out The Pensky File - https://thepenskyfile.com/ for a bevy of excellent podcasts on movies and TV. Seriously... Do this. And also... Why not subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet   Follow Erix Antoine on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ErixAntoine/ 

Another monster of the week, another serial killer, another backdoor pilot for Millennium...or so one would think. In any case, we'll get to Millennium soon enough. But, for now, this is a very good creepy episode. Daniel and I speculate on the behind the scenes implications of airing two atypical serial killer themed episodes of The X-Files on two consecutive weeks... And we discuss Nick Chinlund's creepy performance. How is it that a man this unsettling is able to get as far as he does in his awful mission without anyone really noticing. And Daniel reminisces about a particularly unsettling event from his own past, which this episode brings to mind. It's a typically rich discussion. Dig in. Subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet   Follow Erix Antoine on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ErixAntoine/  Follow Daniel Baldwin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielWBaldwin Or check out his website - http://www.theschlocketeer.com

Daniel and I sit down to discuss this rather atypical episode...atypical for The X-Files, that is. Because, although it delves into the territory of the inexplicable, it is at heart just a serial killer thriller.  Now, don't get us wrong, it's a very good one. And it features Terry O'Quinn in the first but most certainly not the last of his appearances in a Chris Carter-related project. And it also has an excellent performance by Deborah Strang as a police detective, with a rather puerile name, who is ultimately channeling the violence of a serial killer in her genes. There's a bit to talk about here... Dig in. Subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet   Follow Erix Antoine on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ErixAntoine/  Follow Daniel Baldwin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielWBaldwin Or check out his website - http://www.theschlocketeer.com

There's a lot of heavy stuff going on in this episode, whether its the issue of elder care or elder abuse or sexual harassment by the elderly towards young nurses, under the excuse that "they come from a different time where this is harmless and who cares it's just a harmless old man..." In any case, yes, the episode is kind of heavy. And maybe not entirely successful in making all of its points as concretely as it would like to. But there it is.  It's strong enough that Daniel and I certainly have a bunch to talk about here. Dig in. Subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet   Follow Erix Antoine on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ErixAntoine/  Follow Daniel Baldwin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielWBaldwin Or check out his website - http://www.theschlocketeer.com

Daniel and I discuss this strange episode about meat turning Wisconsin townsfolk into assholes; and the cult of vegetarians who are trying to keep them at bay. We speculate about whether or not writer Chris Carter is a vegetarian and if this was his none too subtle dig at mass meat production in the US, and it's effects on America's heartland. We talk about that and a bunch more. Dig in. Subscribe to The Erix Antoine Network on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2AzQd3F3yfQ_kdoOM9Y_A Follow The Erix Antoine Network on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErixAntoineNet   Follow Erix Antoine on Letterboxd - https://letterboxd.com/ErixAntoine/  Follow Daniel Baldwin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielWBaldwin Or check out his website - http://www.theschlocketeer.com