My Struggle II
- Episode aired Feb 22, 2016
- TV-14
- 45m
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7.0/10
4.7K
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Mulder and Scully uncover a shocking truth with global ramifications.Mulder and Scully uncover a shocking truth with global ramifications.Mulder and Scully uncover a shocking truth with global ramifications.
Julian Christopher
- Dr. Rubell
- (as Julian D. Christopher)
Eoin Bates
- Stranded driver
- (uncredited)
Annet Mahendru
- Sveta
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Amber Snow
- Driver
- (uncredited)
John Specogna
- Dr. Grayson
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAdenosine deaminase (ADA) - the gene product inhibited by the Spartan virus - is an actual enzyme. Hereditary defects in the enzyme can lead to a condition known as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), which leaves patients at risk for severe infections like those depicted. A treatment for the condition is to introduce a functional immune system into the patient via bone marrow transplant like Scully suggests for Mulder.
- GoofsThe Cigarette Smoking Man has a tracheostomy. He should not be able to speak unless a special device were attached to the tracheostomy (not apparent in this episode). Generally, a tracheostomy has to be covered to allow someone to speak. Please note that the word "tracheostomy" refers to the placement of a tube in the trachea while "tracheotomy" is just the act of cutting into the trachea. "Tracheostomy" is the correct term in this use.
- Quotes
[to Mulder]
Cigarette Smoking Man: Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes.
- SoundtracksThe X-Files
(uncredited)
Written by Mark Snow
Performed by John Bael
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Like so many, I was a fan of the original series although I don't recall following it all the way through to the end of its nine-season run in the 90's. I was very surprised but pleased to see it revived for another short, 6-episode run, helmed by creator Chris Carter and peopled with many characters from yesteryear. I enjoyed that there was no tampering with the title sequence or theme music, unlike say, recent episodes of "Dr Who". But would these shows echo the greatness of the early episodes when the programme was new...?
Looking back over the 6 episodes, I enjoyed it more than I dared hope. The big background story was Cancer Man's nefarious plan to kill off everyone on earth with a deadly alien virus bar a select few, including Scully but not Mulder. The cliff-hanging ending, with Scully trying to find the plague-infected Mulder on a gridlocked highway to administer an antidote only to be interrupted by what seems to be a flying saucer, certainly took me by surprise and I do hope that Carter and Co can write themselves out of this particular corner if they get the chance through another series.
In the preceding episodes there was an enjoyable mix of the serious and the light-hearted, the latter no doubt a nod to the "monsters from outer-space" origins of the show emanating from 1947 onwards. The plumb silly episode with the reverse lizard-man featured a voyeuristic image of Duchovny resplendent on a cheap motel bed in a pair of scarlet trunks I can't easily get out of my head together with another fantasy image of Anderson getting ravished in broad-daylight by the creature in human form. Then there was Mulder's Billy Ray Cyrus meets Saturday Night Fever drug-fuelled romp. I also loved the idea of the mini-me Mulder and Scully younger FBI agents who subsequently pair off with our heroes and who just scream "spin-off series". Amongst the more serious stuff, Scully lost her mother and pursued her given-up-for-adoption love-child with Mulder while the duo also got to interact with a truth-telling if sensationalist TV presenter acting as national whistle-blower.
As for the acting, Duchovny has definitely slowed down, almost to the point of coming across as self-consciously mannered although Anderson was just as she should be, long-suffering, sceptical but trusting of her partner.
The six episodes here were a bit hit and miss, but t'was ever thus. On the whole, I was glad to see the old truth-searching gang back again. Because it's still out there don't you know.
Looking back over the 6 episodes, I enjoyed it more than I dared hope. The big background story was Cancer Man's nefarious plan to kill off everyone on earth with a deadly alien virus bar a select few, including Scully but not Mulder. The cliff-hanging ending, with Scully trying to find the plague-infected Mulder on a gridlocked highway to administer an antidote only to be interrupted by what seems to be a flying saucer, certainly took me by surprise and I do hope that Carter and Co can write themselves out of this particular corner if they get the chance through another series.
In the preceding episodes there was an enjoyable mix of the serious and the light-hearted, the latter no doubt a nod to the "monsters from outer-space" origins of the show emanating from 1947 onwards. The plumb silly episode with the reverse lizard-man featured a voyeuristic image of Duchovny resplendent on a cheap motel bed in a pair of scarlet trunks I can't easily get out of my head together with another fantasy image of Anderson getting ravished in broad-daylight by the creature in human form. Then there was Mulder's Billy Ray Cyrus meets Saturday Night Fever drug-fuelled romp. I also loved the idea of the mini-me Mulder and Scully younger FBI agents who subsequently pair off with our heroes and who just scream "spin-off series". Amongst the more serious stuff, Scully lost her mother and pursued her given-up-for-adoption love-child with Mulder while the duo also got to interact with a truth-telling if sensationalist TV presenter acting as national whistle-blower.
As for the acting, Duchovny has definitely slowed down, almost to the point of coming across as self-consciously mannered although Anderson was just as she should be, long-suffering, sceptical but trusting of her partner.
The six episodes here were a bit hit and miss, but t'was ever thus. On the whole, I was glad to see the old truth-searching gang back again. Because it's still out there don't you know.
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- Lejink
- Mar 21, 2016
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- Crease Clinic, Riverview Hospital, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada(Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital)
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