In Part 2, Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Reyes (Annabeth Gish) fend off enemies and friends within the bureau as they track down the cultists, who are having trouble with a spaceship they've dug up, and a typical pointless climax has things happen without the characters doing anything to contribute. Even at this late, post-Duchovny stage in the game, The X-Files has turned out some fine stand-alone episodes, but these dreary wallowings go a long way towards explaining why only diehards are still watching. After the child says "I made this" at the end of the credits, it's becoming very hard not to shout "well, clean it up then".

On the DVD: The X-Files: Providence, as with Nothing Important Happened Today, arrives in a great-looking anamorphic widescreen transfer. There are two slight promotional "featurettes"--three-minute clips/talking heads promos focusing on the episode "Providence" and actor Cary Elwes' character. --Kim Newman

DVD Description
Now the entire seventh season of The X-Files is available on DVD. All 22 classic episodes from David Duchovny’s last full season as Agent Fox Mulder are available for the first time in this exclusive 6-disc collector’s edition. From Scully discovering the alien spacecraft in The Sixth Extinction and Mulder finally learning the truth about his sister in Closure, to Mulder’s own disappearance and Scully’s miraculous pregnancy in Requiem, these season seven episodes are a must for every X-Files fan!

Including the following episodes:

• 1- Hungry
  
• 2- The Goldberg Variation
  
• 3- The Sixth Extinction
  
• 4- The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati
  
• 5- Millennium
  
• 6- Rush
  
• 7- Orison
  
• 8- The Amazing Maleeni
  
• 9- Signs And Wonders
  
• 10- Sein Und Zeit
  
• 11- Closure
  
• 12- X-Cops
  
• 13- First Person Shooter
  
• 14- Theef
  
• 15- En Ami
  
• 16- Chimera
  
• 17- all things
  
• 19- Brand X
  
• 18- Hollywood A.D.
  
• 20- Fight Club
  
• 21- Je Souhaite
  
• 22- Requiem