This episode is basically a parody of the "expose" genre, with an added twist of government suppression and manipulation of the narrative even if the narrative is fundamentally wrong. It has the added interesting twist of casting Bruce Harwood as the informant, a year into his role as Byers in the X Files. In fact, it has a very strong X Files undertone to it.
All of the footage from previous episodes is used here, but used without the whole story. The people putting it all together don't really know what they are looking at, or what story it tells. They tell their own story with it, but it's not true. Those of us who have seen these previous episodes know this. It's fascinating to watch what story is told in an attempt to tie those clips together.
Not knowing the whole story, and therefore getting the story wrong, but also having enough fundamental aspects of truth that the government suppresses it -- that's very X FIles.
It's not an excellent episode by any means, but it's interesting enough.
All of the footage from previous episodes is used here, but used without the whole story. The people putting it all together don't really know what they are looking at, or what story it tells. They tell their own story with it, but it's not true. Those of us who have seen these previous episodes know this. It's fascinating to watch what story is told in an attempt to tie those clips together.
Not knowing the whole story, and therefore getting the story wrong, but also having enough fundamental aspects of truth that the government suppresses it -- that's very X FIles.
It's not an excellent episode by any means, but it's interesting enough.