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A review by captlychee
Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Patrick Leger, Emily VanDerWerff, Zack Handlen
3.0
This is a competent but not remarkable collection of reviews of every episode of one of the great Tv series of all time. While the criticism is not too academic, they have the same problem has many critical reviews nowadays—they take a cause celebre and try to graft it on to the episode they're talking about. Therefore, you get reviews that talk about race, gender, political correctness, rather than taking the episode or season on its own merits. Sometimes they'll miss the point of an episode simply because they're focussed on whether one of the chracters is the right ethnicity or something.
My other peeves are that they pay almost no attention to Marita Covarrubias (Laurie Holden) and for some inexplicable reason they think that Vince Gilligan is a good writer. They do that on the strength of Breaking Bad, but then they wax lyrical about some very ordinary episodes.
If you want a politically correct view of one of the great TV series (and one that's thorough enough to cover the revamp in the twenty-teens), knock yourselves out.
My other peeves are that they pay almost no attention to Marita Covarrubias (Laurie Holden) and for some inexplicable reason they think that Vince Gilligan is a good writer. They do that on the strength of Breaking Bad, but then they wax lyrical about some very ordinary episodes.
If you want a politically correct view of one of the great TV series (and one that's thorough enough to cover the revamp in the twenty-teens), knock yourselves out.