The man over him shoves a wooden stake into his chest, then pounds it in further with a rock for good measure. The scene is shadowy and quick, and soon the boy is on the ground.
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Dramatic music by series composer Mark Snow matches the action. A teenage boy runs through the woods, screaming while a man with a weapon relentlessly chases him. The episode opens with a scene straight out of a thriller movie. It’s not all fun and games from the start, though. Nestled in The X-Files’ fifth season, after Scully’s battle with cancer and just before the duo saved the world from an alien virus in the franchise’s first film, “Bad Blood” is a welcome comedic break that seems to draw inspiration both from an earlier perspective-shifting entry, the aforementioned “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space,” and from classic sitcom episodes like The Dick Van Dyke Show’s “The Night The Roof Fell In.” However, the series’ most seamlessly built and hilariously executed comedy episode takes its cue from Morgan’s comedic spirit but credits its script to someone else: a then-up-and-comer by the name of Vince Gilligan.Īs David Duchovny’s disoriented FBI agent Mulder might put it after reciting the Shaft theme song from his hotel room floor: it’s “ Bad Blood,” baby. Many of the show’s most playful outings - among them ”War of the Coprophages,” “ Jose Chung’s From Outer Space,” and “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” - are penned by Darin Morgan, whose name in the credits always elicits a welcome cheer. The X-Files has a quirky, irreverent sense of humor that bubbles forth unexpectedly in one-off episodes that are scattered throughout the series. All is not lost for The X-Files fans, though: we’ll always have the funny episodes. Pile on a handful of culturally insensitive Monster of the Week episodes, and you’ve got yourself a beloved series that’s harder than most to rewatch. By the time the series ended for the second time in 2018, it had rewritten its own central story so many times that even the most emotionally engaging plot points, like Agent Mulder’s sister’s disappearance, began to feel like a meme of themselves.
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Chris Carters’ supernatural investigation series can do self-contained serious episodes, sure, but it often loses the plot on its own winding mythology. Throughout eleven seasons and two movies worth of alien abductions and cigarette-smoking men, The X-Files has proven again and again that it’s best when it doesn’t take itself too seriously.
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This entry revisits “Bad Blood,” a wonderfully ridiculous episode of The X-Files penned by Vince Gilligan. This essay is part of our series Episodes, a bi-weekly column in which senior contributor Valerie Ettenhofer digs into the singular chapters of television that make the medium great.