Possibly the best episode of this season - nay, of the whole show!
Starting like one of those old 'Twilight Zone' episodes, the rest of the episode is a mockery of mistery and sci-fi shows - and a parody of X-Files itself. Nothing should be taken seriously and I still don't believe how David and Gillian accepted the part on this episode. It's painful to watch these two acting like clown versions of their characters.
Yet... I loved the entire story. The idea that, in today's society, we cannot rely on memory because everything we know can and will be altered to satisfy political and economic purposes, hits today's society right where it hurts.
And the comical aspects are surrealistically brilliant! Trump's 'real' inauguration, the 'floating alien' who is, in fact, riding a Segway, even the fake cut eliminating part of the episode to hide some company's name - these details hide, behind the façade of a stupid episode, a well thought and written one.
I could watch it over and over again without getting tired, and laughed like a madman with most of the jokes. In a few years this may become a cult episode of X-Files - although it is not what anyone would expect from the show.
The image of Mulder, standing dumbfounded in the middle of the laughing statues ( Vancouver's 'A-maze-ing Laughter' sculpture by Yue Minjun), is a picture of the spectator dumbfounded at the episode: the writers are laughing at him - and maybe whole society is, because if you can't see the truth about society, you are a clown.
The Truth is still out there. RIP Reggie Something.