Files rebooted: Mulder and Scully return in search for truth

X-Files star Gillian Anderson has revealed during an interview with The Daily Beast that for the recent revival of The X-Files, she was offered half of what her co-star, David Duchovny, was being paid. It has the unsavory task of sparking to life a candle long since blown out while bringing in millions of new viewers wanting to give the cult classic a whirl.

“Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government”, a 2015 study conducted by the Pew Research Center, cited 19 percent of their respondents saying they can trust the government always or most of the time.

MissingLink: So excited to have this show back, Muder and Scully’s interactions were wonderful, like the show never ended, it was seamless in my opinion.

Chris Carter, the show’s creator, also returns as both writer and executive producer of the six-part mini-series. I always thought the single storylines were always what made THE X-FILES great and the mythology stuff was more of a bone to chew on because they needed something more than just these types of stories to be successful.

Merder, a science fiction fan, said she enjoyed the series because it differed from other TV shows of the time and offered a certain quirky quality. They begin in the pre-World War II era and chart the course of the conspiracy and alien technology throughout the decades, even using it to explain the alleged obesity epidemic in this country today. They’ve gone through a lot, as have many of us along with them.

But I would shove aside that episode for now. The episode’s entire 42 minutes was enthralling, and the final few minutes are some of the most emotional I’ve ever seen in terms of “The X-Files” and the show’s character arcs.

As a whole, “Founder’s Mutation” is a welcome and warmly familiar edition of THE X-FILES, even if it somewhat subverted the petrifying precedent set by “My Struggle”. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Mulder and Scully do a solid job of returning to their iconic characters, really giving the series its old, comfortable feel. This finally adds in the missing piece to their relationship’s fundaments, improving their dynamic and their chemistry to a relieving level. Mulder has retreated further into his hermit-like existence, and Scully works in a Christian hospital performing surgeries on children with birth defects. Events are kicked into motion when Scully contacts Mulder (they have separated, but seem amicable enough) and tells him that Skinner wants him to meet Tad O’Malley (Community’s Joel McHale), a popular conservative webcaster who’s also a conspiracy theorist. And with that, we’re back, watching the first episode of the tenth season of a show that had its ostensible finale in 2002 (there was a feature film in between in 2008). I just know I’m very happy to see this series back.

Then again, the nearly instinctual fatalism isn’t unique to Scully, if anything it is the prevalent theme of the X-Files revival.