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The X Files: Season 4 [1994]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5039036018272
Label : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publisher : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date : 2004-12-27
Title : The X Files: Season 4 [1994]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 12 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 7
Original release date : 1994-01-26
Region code : 2
Running time : 45
Studio : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 1993-09-10
Number of discs : 7

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
In Season 4 of The X-Files, Scully is a bit upset by her on-off terminal cancer and Mulder is supposed to shoot himself in the season finale (did anyone believe that?), but in episode after episode the characters still plod dutifully around atrocity sites tossing off wry witticisms in that bland investigative demeanour out of fashion among TV cops since Dragnet. Perhaps the best achievement of this season is "Home", the most unpleasant horror story ever presented on prime-time US TV. It's not a comfortable show--confronted with this ghastly parade of incest, inbreeding, infanticide and mutilation, you'd think M & S would drop the jokes for once--but shows a willingness to expand the envelope. By contrast, ventures into golem, reincarnation, witchcraft and Invisible Man territory throw up run-of-the-mill body counts, spotlighting another recurrent problem. For heroes, M & S rarely do anything positive: they work out what is happening after all the killer's intended victims have been snuffed ("Kaddish"), let the monster get away ("Sanguinarium") and cause tragedies ("The Field Where I Died"). No wonder they're stuck in the FBI basement where they can do the least damage.

The series has settled enough to play variations on earlier hits: following the liver vampire, we have a melanin vampire ("Teliko") and a cancer vampire ("Leonard Betts"), and return engagements for the oily contact lens aliens and the weasely ex-Agent Krycek ("Tunguska"/"Terma"). Occasional detours into send-up or post-modernism are indulged, yielding both the season's best episode ("Small Potatoes") and its most disappointing ("Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"). "Small Potatoes", with the mimic mutant who tries out Mulder's life and realises what a loser he is (how many other pin-up series heroes get answerphone messages from their favourite phone-sex lines?), works as a genuine sci-fi mystery--for once featuring a mutant who doesn't have to kill people to live--and as character insight. --Kim Newman

Customer reviews

review by: scifihorror fan date: 2008-07-31 rating:

The X Files at its BEST...by far my favourite season of its entire run
after three genuinly fantastic seasons its here where the show reaches its peak,and is genuinly fantastic all the way through with hardly any missable episodes.
eppy reviews-

Herrenvolk(2)-5/5
Home-5/5
Teliko-3/5
Unruhe-4/5
The Field Where I died-4/5
Sanguinarium-4/5
Musings Of a Ciggarette Smoking man-4/5
Tunguska(1)-5/5
Terma(2)-5/5
Paper Hearts*-5/5-one of the greatest ever made.
El Mundo Gira-4/5
Leonard Betts*-5/5-another fave of mine
Never Again*-5/5
Memento Mori*-5/5
Kaddish-3/5
Unrequited-3/5
Tempus Fugit(1)-5/5
Max(2)-5/5
Synchrony-3/5
Small Potatoes*-5/5-the greatest episode of the show ever!!
Zero Sum-4/5
Elegy-4/5
Demons-5/5
Gethsemane(1)*-5/5-shocking cliffhanger that leaves you wanting more.

as you can see,this season of the show contains the majority of the greatest episodes...season 5 & 6 continue this standard...but for me this is my favourite season of the show.

BRING ON SEASON 5

BUY TODAY!!!

review by: date: 2008-07-18 rating:

x files series four
Not a bad season only a couple of duds in my opinion the main one being HOME. Sorry diehards but this was so poor it was the only time i considered skipping the whole episode( i have all the x files) Its not so much the premise that was bad but the acting and plot, they seemed bored and unimpressed. i know how they felt.

review by: AJ date: 2007-09-06 rating:

Best yet
Watching the DVDs through from season one, this is the best of the first four. Doesn't suffer with the poor attempts at comedy episodes that plagued season 3. Still has weaker ones but overall a brilliant season.

Some annoying instances of characters (usually Mulder) being very stupid just to move the plot along but that's just being picky. Good entertainment all the way through.

review by: date: 2006-10-31 rating:

Firing on all cylinders
This is my favourite year of The X-Files. The average episodes are great, and the best are simply outstanding. There is serious drama, particularly for Scully's character. Episodes like Home and Sanguinarium are particularly creepy, whilst others develop the Smoking Man's character, or the possibilities surrounding Samantha Mulder's disappearance.

This season won several Emmy awards, and deservedly so. Although it remained a great show, I don't believe it was ever again quite so consistently good as this season.

Favourites:
Memento Mori, Paper Hearts, Never Again, Demons, Home, Tunguska/Terma, Tempus Fugit/Max

Episodes I remember not liking, but enjoyed this time round:
Never Again, Kaddish

Weak points:
El Mundo Gira - goatsuckers, indeed.

review by: date: 2006-04-05 rating:

x-files
x-files season 4 has to be the best season of x-files i have ever seen bear in mind i have seen 5,6,7,8 or 9 yet but of the 4 seasons i have seen this is the best of all.

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