The X Files: Season 5 [1994]

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
The midpoint of what would be a nine-season show, the fifth season of The X-Files (the first to be put on DVD in anamorphic widescreen format) gives fans a heavy heaping of what they love. For the mythology buffs, riveting episodes from the season bookends "Redux" and "The End" to several episodes in between tease with new revelations about the vast government conspiracies and alien invasion plot lines sketched in earlier seasons. But enough questions are left unanswered for the theatrical X-Files movie, which was released the subsequent summer, and the seasons that followed. Supporting characters like the Lone Gunmen, Agent Krycek, the Pusher Robert Modell, and Fox's father and sister Bill and Samantha Mulder are flushed out in more detail in several episodes that occasionally jump back in time to cover the prehistory of The X-Files. New chess pieces are introduced, each raising new questions: the clairvoyant child Gibson Praise, Agent Spender, faceless alien resistance fighters with pyromaniacal tendencies, a child who may be Scully's, and Mulder's old flame, agent Diana Fowley (Mimi Rogers). All the time, no one knows who will be assassinated next, who is or isn't dead, just who isn't potentially a child of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and why the base of the neck is everyone's vulnerable spot. The creature feature stand-alone episodes vary in quality, but all are redeemed by the outrageously funny self-parody episode "Bad Blood," a fan favorite that guest stars Luke Wilson as a small-town sheriff who catches Scully's eye. Finally, "shippers" (fans who would love nothing better than to see Mulder and Scully act upon their feelings for each other) get a heavy dose of the usual sexual innuendo and lingering, tender glances between the attractive costars. Mimi Rogers and Luke Wilson incite palpable jealousy between the leads; the appearance of a wedding ring on Mulder's hand in a back story hints at stories not told; and the usual extreme and dimly lit crises illustrate just how far Mulder and Scully will go for each other. In the end, the complexities of their relationship may be the most tense and intriguing of all the mysteries explored by this epic television series. --Eugene Wei

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Customer reviews

review by: scifihorror fan date: 2008-07-31 rating:
A great follow up to the astonishing season 4,contains more great episodes that'll have you on the edge
season 3 & 4 brought the show out of cult status and into one one of the greatest shows of all time.
season five was going to be a hard act to follow after the awesome season 4 but it just about pulls it off.

eppy reviews-

Redux(2)-5/5
Redux 2(3)-5/5
Unusual Suspects-2/5
Detour-4/5
The Post-Modern Prometheus*-5/5-a classic!!
Christmas Carol(1)-4/5
Emily(2)-4/5
Kitsunegari-3/5
Schizogeny-2/5
Chinga-5/5-stephen king writes this chiller.
Kill Switch-5/5
Bad Blood*-5/5-hilarious
Patient X(1)-4.5/5
The Red & The Black(2)-4.5/5
Travelers-1/5
Minds eye-3/5
All Souls-3/5
The pine Bluff Variant-4/5
Folie a Deux-4/5
The End-4/5

this was followed by a decent movie spin off from the series(which is recommended viewing)season 6 will be the final gret season of the show so make the most of it.

:)please by today!

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review by: AJ date: 2008-04-10 rating:
Not quite as good asseason 4
A very strong series but not quite as good as 4.

The conspiracy moves along well and the individual episodes are good with scares, monsters, aliens - the usual. Not that the usual is a bad thing in this case.

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review by: Morbo date: 2008-03-17 rating:
A poor follow up to Season 4
Season 4 was always going to be a hard act to follow but it would seem that Chris Carter and co made special effort to ensure that viewers could not draw parallels, and thus compare, between Season Five and preceeding series'. The effort to break the sombre and often bleak tones of earlier episodes forced Carter to go down a more formulaic and at times comedic path.
Whether this new route was in response to pressure from TV bosses to make the show more accessible to the wider public, or to ensure that the upcoming transisiton to cinema was met with good box office sales is unclear.
Nonetheless for continued viewers of the series Season Five must be considered a disappointment. The series consists of some fairly lightweight material which was not in keeping with the story development through Series 1 - 4. However the series does contain some genuinely gripping episodes which attain the consistent heights of Series 4.
It is around this time that "The X-Files" became a more prominent show in the TV listings and entered the popular culture social consciousness on a larger scale than it had before which perhaps explains the selection of style over substance.

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review by: Kezza date: 2006-06-10 rating:
ONE OF THE BEST
This is probably one of the best collections so far, has a great selection of funny and serious episodes in. For the x files fans would really recommend this but even if you only watched a few this is still great viewing


review by: date: 2006-03-15 rating:
Season 5 is brill
As a huge fan of the X-Files I have to say that so far this is the best season I have watched. I recently bought all 9 seasons from Amazon (who else) and haven't never watched the X-Files till now I'm fully enjoying the show (I have now watched up to Season 6)

Now back to why Season 5 is so brill. There are episodes in this season which are hilarious and the characters are at their best. Episode 10 'Chinga' has many laugh out loud momemts involving Mulder, the best scene is when he has all the pencils stuck to his office ceiling. Its very funny when you're watching it.
Episode 12 'Bad Blood' is again another very funny episode.
In this season (and again in season 6) you see Mulder and Scully's relationship really heat up, you can't help but notice the sexual tension between them and feel tempted to shout out just kiss!
As well as been a very funny season it is also a very emotional one as the characters lives are (as always) made more complicated and almost destroyed as they get closer to discovering the truth.

Its a must have for any fan!

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