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This reminds me of how much I miss watching X-Files back in the days. Such a good show.

I fondly remember getting Little Caesars pizza every Friday after soccer practice and coming home to stay up late with my dad and watch the new X-Files. The 90's truly were the best decade.

It's funny how these kind of -maybe mundane at the time- things really are the most important things.

Agree. Friday night X-Files was is such a great memory. My 90’s-geek-self (and current) especially loved any episode with the Lone Gunmen — such a different era of hacker culture. On the opposite end of the spectrum, while I enjoyed watching SeaQuest (s1 at least) on Sunday nights, I mostly remember the post-episode dread as the weekend was over and it was time to get ready for Monday.

That’s a lovely reminiscence. It’s a beautiful memory to have.

If you're in the UK, all X-File episodes are available to stream for free on 4OD. I'm re-watching it too, but I'm so busy I can only do 1 episode every few days.

That's almost how it was back then, one episode per week. ;) I haven't done a complete rewatch but from time to time I just watch some of my favorite episodes like, "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas", "Field Trip", "Quagmire" to just name a few of them.

If you've got an Internet connection, all the X-files episodes are available for download through torrents.

Unfortunately, I do not have an Internet connection…

The same on SBS OnDemand, for anyone in Australia.

Thank you for this.

There goes my weekend lol. Thanks! Are they the remastered versions? I was quite impressed by how good they looked on the whole.

It’s quite impressive how good xfiles looks today when you compare it to other shows around the same period.

Space above and beyond in comparison looks pretty terrible from what I have seen. It’s not even wide screen.

I think X files was shot on film perhaps?

I’m not sure if what we have now on say Disney plus for example is a remastered version but certainly it holds up very well.

Yeah I read up on this a bit as I was very impressed by the quality. It was shot on widescreen film so they could just rescan (if that’s the term?) the film at widescreen HD resolution. I think they had to retouch or adjust the crop in some scenes because there was stuff off to the side which you weren’t meant to see, which was out of the 4:3 area but inside the 16:9 area.

Some of the special FX shots look bad because they were digital and so they’ve just had to upscale them, but overall I was really impressed too. It’s nice because it lets you enjoy it all over again without being distracted by how “bad” it looks on modern TVs

Still a good one. I watched it once few years. I'll probably watch it again this year during Christmas. When my son grows up I'll introduce it to him too. I'm not sure what is the appropriate age but I guess 12 is OK? Some of the scenes are definitely 18+ though, I think.

Just don't let him watch the episode called "Home", some other episodes could also be to early at 12, but most should be ok.

Oh yeah, now that you reminded me, there are a few episodes that has sort of viewer discretion warning at the beginning.

I'll tell $wifie that I'll have to re-watch the whole X-Files this month to figure out which episodes my son should avoid when he is 12 (that is around 9 years from now). This definitely counts as parenting work.

Yup. For better or worse, "Home" _almost always_ gets a "Jump to Next Episode."

I loved as a teenager but its looks silly now, like a lot of teenager movies. With the exception of the "X-cops" episode which is a little gem.

It has aged better than most other shows from the era. IMO of course.

"Harsh Realm" (another Chris Carter show) may yet become relevant again though.

"The Lone Gunmen" as the sillier cousin of X-Files is as charming as ever.

Millennium is still the best spin off, and the episode parodying Scientology is still amazing

The Lone Gunmen!

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