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Watching all the "mythology arc" X-Files episodes in a row and skipping all of the "monster of the week" episode makes it look like a modern TV show. Very enjoyable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_The_X-Files

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YMMV, but I enjoyed the "monster of the week" episodes more - the best were the ones where the show didn't take itself too seriously, and sure enough, three of my favourites are also in the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_(The_X-Files), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Blood_(The_X-Files) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Bruckman%27s_Final_Repos....

Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose is a sublime episode. One of my favorites as well.

Yes. And Jose Chung's From Outer Space was brilliantly original, tightly constructed, and hilarious at times.

Anything written by Darin Morgan.

The recent revival had another one written by him, "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster", it's amazing.

Two, actually; he also wrote "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" in the eleventh season (second revival season). D. Morgan also wrote "Jose Chung's Final Repose" in Millennium, to cap off Charles Nelson Reilly's character.

Bad Blood is easily my favourite. Rashomon-X-Files! :)

i loved "bad blood" too and the monster of the week in general!

the mythology was each week more complicated and if you skipped one episode you didn't know any more who was a friend or not

The main thing I'm getting out of this conversation is that X-Files had an awful lot of really good writers. Those three episodes you listed had three different writers.

You somehow neglected to mention Home, which had two other writers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(The_X-Files)

But I think Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose is the greatest of them all.

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