The X Files: Season 6 [DVD] [1994]

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.

This is my personal favorite season, possibly, sorry it is hard to choose between them. It has everything and feels as fresh as season 1. It starts off continuing from the movie, this story is further expanded in later episodes, the long running conspiracies are finally put to rest and to some degree Mulder wins! The constant doubts Mulder had in season 5 are all gone though at the start of the season both Mulder and Scully have been assigned away from the X Files, but as ever its not long before theyre right back on them.

The stand alone episodes, (which I have to say is what I watch X Files for, Ive never been one for the long running deep conspiracies, too slow for my liking and to straight faced) are better than ever involving time travel, the Bermuda Triangle, Vice Versa style body shifting, ghosts, Demons having babies, sea monsters Groundog Day, honestly this season has it all! Even the episode with the Lone Gunmen is good!

As usual there are a couple of sub standard episodes but that is to be expected in a long season, The Rain King is just poor and The Unnatural is way too American for a UK audience, but worth watching for the close interaction between Mulder and Scully at the end of the episode.

What becomes more obvious throughout this season is the bond between Mulder and Scully there are several occasions when the chemistry sets the screen alight! Building on the will they wont they get it on debate!

As ever we are left with a cliff hanger ending with Mulder committed and acting like a Basket Case and Scully finding a big spaceship under some sand in Africa that could be the answer to life on earth, phew! Cant wait for season 7!

In a nut shell Mulder and Scully return from Antartica after the events of The Movie and find out that they are not dealing with the X Files anymore. Good old Cassandra Spender returns to inform Mulder that there is an Alien threat of colonization.

The season climaxes in Biogenesis where an extraterrestrial artefact is found of the coast of Africa which could hold the key to the very origins of life on Earth.

My top episodes this season:

Dreamland Part1+2
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas
Agua Mala
Monday
Arcadia
Three of a Kind