Once I got my hands on the whole X-Files series up to season 9, the original end of the series before their lazy restart years later, the first episode I really noticed an explicit real-life reference to politics was S06E03, Triangle, where Mulder gets dropped back onto a ship in WW2 and all the main characters are there like Dept. Dir. Skinner, Cancer Man, etc. Mulder makes a joking aside about the Monica Lewinski scandal, and my first thought was "uh-oh."

The moment that writers of a story start directly talking about the real world, when their stories have zero reason to reference current events, the whole thing is fucked. X-Files made it YEARS before I noticed something so direct outside of culture references (tell me if I did miss something else), and there's no way in hell this show makes it past episode 1 before it starts making jabs.

The main characters being non-Whites is the grotesque scab covering the rotten pus beneath.