The X Files: Season 6 [1994]

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Following the X-Files feature film in the summer of 1998, "The Beginning" quickly crowbars an attempt at fitting the film into the TV chronology before it picks up plot points left dangling from the fifth-season finale, "The End" (note the guard asleep at the nuclear power plant console is named Homer!). Between arc threads are several pleasing excursions: time travel to a Bermuda Triangle boatload of Nazis ("Triangle"), further temporal escapades akin to Groundhog Day ("Monday"), a demonic baby case featuring genre stalwart Bruce Campbell ("Terms of Endearment"), and Duchovny being able to play someone else via personality switching ("The Dreamland, Parts 1 and 2"). Back in the real scheme of things, Mulder chases "S.R. 819," a Senate resolution tying conspiracies together. "Two Fathers" and "One Son" indicate that the abductee experiments are intended to cure the black oil disease. The year finishes with "BioGenesis," in which we're asked to ponder, are we from Mars? A beach-buried UFO leaves Scully wondering. --Paul Tonks

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-09-20 rating:
A great and also diverse season
This season was a lot more varied than previous seasons, but most of the episodes were very good or excellent. The season starts directly after the first X files movie which results in Mulder and Scully being (temporarily) taken off the X files and reassigned to AD Kirsch.

There are a lot of highlights in this season. The episode "Triangle" is filmed as if it is one continuous scene, which is quite an achievement. The two parter "Dreamland" is very funny, as it shows how Mulder copes with having an unintentional "body swap" with a "Man In Black" after being exposed to a malfunctioning spacecraft.

The highly confusing alien "syndicate" conspiracy was finally tied up in the episodes "Two Fathers" and "One Son". This resulted in Mulder and Scully regaining their roles on the X files.

My favourite episode of the season was "Monday", even though it was a "Groundhog Day" rip off. However, it was still very cleverly written, showing how Mulder lived through the same day, which always ended up with him and Scully dying, unless he could somehow learn the lessons from the "previous" day.

David Duchovny also writes and directs "The Unnatural", an episode which looks back at Roswell in the 1940s with an interesting viewpoint.

In conclusion, this season is well worth watching and each episode is very different to the others.

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review by: scifihorror fan date: 2008-07-31 rating:
the last great season of this show...its very good and entertaining for the majority
seasons 1,2 and 3 started the show off with excellent episodes which lead it to a great run.
season 4 and 5 are by far the best,so season six was (of course) going to have difficulties having to match them and the movie.
but this season just about pulls it off,albeit some down episodes it isnt perfect but it is a very,very good season of the show.

eppy guide-

The beginning-3/5
Drive-3/5
Triangle-4.5/5
Dreamland*-5/5
Dreamland 2*-5/5
How the ghosts stole Christmas-3/5
Terms Of Endearment-3/5
The rain King-1/5
S.R 189-4/5
Tithonus-4/5
Two Fathers(1)-5/5
One Son(2)-5/5
Agua Mala-1/5
Monday-4/5
Arcadia-5/5
Alpha-1/5
Trevor-2/5
Milagro*-5/5
The Unnatural-3/5
Three Of A Kind-2/5
Field trip-3/5
Biogenesis(1)-3/5

there it is the final great season of the shows run.
the rest are only decent at their best,so watch this season and respect it for trying to be great.

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review by: AJ date: 2007-11-20 rating:
The funny episodes are funny...
...which is a good thing as they seem to take up half the season. In previous seasons there have been a few attempts at funny episodes but I haven't enjoyed many (if any of them). They seem to have worked it out for season 6 though so they don't detract from the overall quality.

The spookier episodes are very good too. The only real disappointment was the one written and directed by David Duchovny.

Looking forward t the arrival of season 7 through my door as I work my way through.

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review by: pjhenney date: 2007-06-16 rating:
One of the worst X-files seasons.
Like the Curates Egg, good in parts but lots of boring fillers in between the meat of the Colonisation. Just get on with it!


review by: date: 2006-01-21 rating:
One of the better x-files seasons.
Being one of the late comers to the show, having started watching it around the 5th season, I decided to watch all the seasons in order, as I would understand it a lot more. Sitting through them all, I would have to say that season 6 is probably one of the finest, and most entertaining seasons of the lot. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson looks like they are really enjoying themselves in some of the most interesting episodes of the entire show.

The season kicks off with "The beginning" which is sort of a follow up to the movie. Unfortunately, the episode isn't one of my favourite openings, but it was exciting, as it showed the return of Gibson Praise, and also guest-starred one of the aliens from the movie. The next couple of episodes are some of the seasons' best. "Drive" is one of my personal favourites, as it is about a man who is forced to drive Mulder around the highways at high speed, or he will die. The opening scene to that episode is one of my favourites. "Triangle" is a very entertaining episode, in which Mulder crosses through the Bermuda triangle and gets caught up on a ship that was said to have disappeared during world war II. "Dreamland I/Dreamland II" is a very humorous episode, in which Mulder switces body with another man, after a UFO is seen flying over them. And "How the ghosts stole christmas" is an intertesting story were Mulder and Scully get locked in a house which is believed to be haunted by a married couple at Christmas eve.

Other good episodes include "Two fathers/One son" which basically closes of about 5 years of mythology in the show. The conclusion to the episode is breathtaking. "Monday" is another of my personal favourites, in which a woman has to relive the same day over and over again, until she can save Mulder and Scully from being killed by her boyfriend. "Arcadia" shows Mulder and Scully going undercover as a maried couple to try to investigate the disappearences of people in a small neighbourhood. It starts of very fun, but ends in a sort of disturbing way. "The Unnatural" is a great episode, in which a story is told about one of America's greatest baseball players being an alien. It includes a guest appearence by Brian Thompson as the alien bounty hunter. "Field trip" is a very unsettling and confusing episode.

A few episodes do let the season down: "The rain king" is a stupid episode which mostly revolves around a weather man trying to have the guts his long-time friend out. "Alpha" seemed like a good episode, about a killer dog on ther loose, but it just fell flat. "Terms of endearment" wasn't a bad episode, it was just average really, about a man who just wants to have a normal baby and he will do anything to make it happen. It does have a good guest-starring Bruce Campbell (The Evil dead films).

The season-finale didn't really seem exciting to me, as it didn't really have a good cliffhnager (the best ones would be Season 2's "Anasazi" and Season 4's "Gethsamane").

Still, this is probably one of the more experimental seasons of the show. Mixed with episodes of comedy, and some just straight-ahead horror stories.

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