It's two shows in one: The Twilight Zone and Lost.
The monster of the week episodes are okay.
The smoke monster smoking man and never-ending escalation of unexplained mystery plot into in incomprehensible, nonsensical puked-up hairball was bad at the time. Now it's old and bad.
the problem with the latter was that there was never any real resolution. normally they do a trope like villain escalation where they defeat one villain to only find out he was just a middle manager. they just waffled on that entire story arc and then got into alien stuff in one of the movies, but that was still pretty weak.
then the next movie was about a fucking pedophile so you know there's no way that's happening unless they project the character basically as trump or desantis and it has nothing to do with x-files.
Twin Peaks had the same problem. If it wasn't a "soap opera", writers just didn't know how to do a continuing series, and acted like in the old days where they could pull anything out of their butts and continuity wasn't a concern. VCRs changed all that; people no longer forgot what happened last week.
It's two shows in one: The Twilight Zone and Lost.
The monster of the week episodes are okay.
The
smoke monstersmoking man and never-ending escalation of unexplained mystery plot into in incomprehensible, nonsensical puked-up hairball was bad at the time. Now it's old and bad.the problem with the latter was that there was never any real resolution. normally they do a trope like villain escalation where they defeat one villain to only find out he was just a middle manager. they just waffled on that entire story arc and then got into alien stuff in one of the movies, but that was still pretty weak.
then the next movie was about a fucking pedophile so you know there's no way that's happening unless they project the character basically as trump or desantis and it has nothing to do with x-files.
That is so disappointing. I wanted to believe.
I can't believe it's not aliens.
Twin Peaks had the same problem. If it wasn't a "soap opera", writers just didn't know how to do a continuing series, and acted like in the old days where they could pull anything out of their butts and continuity wasn't a concern. VCRs changed all that; people no longer forgot what happened last week.
Streaming services were the nail in the coffin. Watch a few episodes in a row and you're "WTF!?"