Yesterday over at Frame Rated: I reviewed the fourth episode of THE X-FILES event series, "Home Again" by Glen Morgan, which was a great showcase for Gillian Anderson awkwardly combined with a monster-of-the-week case.
When I first heard Glen Morgan would be writing an episode entitled "Home Again", I envisioned an unexpected sequel to infamous season 4 episode "Home", about a family of inbred murderers, but it wasn’t to be. Instead, this was a decent hour that suddenly means The X-Files' revival could end its maddeningly short run with a mostly-good batch of episodes, unless the final two soil the bed. "Home Again" almost felt like two separate instalments combined, with a bizarre monster-of-the-week tale interwoven with a down-to-earth human drama for Scully (Gillian Anderson). Continue reading...
