robertmaybeth Review of Quagmire

The X-Files: Quagmire (1996) Season 3, Episode 22

You can't be blamed for thinking it is Bryan Cranston in this episode, but it isn't

[7/10 · 18 September 2018]

He is actually an actor named Timothy Weber, playing Dr Farraday the frog advocate. This episode unfolds a bit more slowly than most X-files episodes, the plot pertains to a mythical lake monster called the "Big Blue", similar to the Loch Ness monster. After years of alleged sightings, Scully and Mulder are called to investigate the death of a Forest Ranger (which makes it a Federal case thus why they are called out to investigate). Even Mulder is skeptical about the existence of "Big Blue" and doesn't believe that is what's killing so many people along the lake shore. This could have been a great episode but the action and violence is a bit too formulaic and a little too trite to be scary at all, after the third time of people screaming and getting dragged away through the mud we are not surprised by the ending at all - which i won't spoil for you, except to say, watch til the very end; I found it to be the best part of this episode..