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in Larks & RecsLarks & Recs: The Lazarus Project, The Floor, Gilmore Girls, Barbie
Welcome back to Larks & Recs! I know it’s been a while, so let me remind you how this works. Each week, members of the TV Obsessive staff offer recommendations of things they’ve been into recently. Often, those will be TV shows. Sometimes, they’ll be films, songs, podcasts, or potato salad recipes. The field’s wide […] More
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The Truth of “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” — How the Hell Should I Know?
Editor’s Note: This piece on The X-Files, “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space,” was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist. Usually, when you’re watching TV, you can trust that what you’re seeing is real within the […] More
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Fall 2023 TV Premieres: New & Returning Series We’re Excited About
I saw a poll recently asking when Fall starts. Is it when the leaves change, or the first day of school? Is it the autumnal equinox occurring this year on September 23? I think that’s the answer, but it’s not really the answer for what counts as “Fall TV,” so we’ll start a couple of […] More
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The X-Files: “War of the Coprophages” Grins at Us the Whole Time
Editor’s Note: This piece on The X-Files, “War of the Coprophages,” was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist. In its premise, “War of the Coprophages” is perhaps the most terrifying episode of The X-Files of […] More
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Life, Death, and “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”
Editor’s Note: This piece on The X-Files episode “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist. Given that it’s an episode of The X-Files, one of the most striking things about “Clyde […] More
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The X-Files 30th Anniversary: S1E1 ‘Pilot’ Recap
Aliens. Crime scenes. Government conspiracies. Dramatic finales and goofy parodies. Across all 11 seasons of The X-Files, we’ve seen it all. But where did it all begin? For the 30th anniversary of one of the most popular cult TV shows ever, it’s time to revisit the inception: the Pilot episode. As Perfect Pilots go, The […] More
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Dreaming of Dana Scully
Editor’s Note: “Dreaming of Dana Scully” was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist. In the early months of 2021, I began dreaming of Special Agent Dana Scully from The X-Files. Before writing this article, I […] More
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The X-Files: “Humbug” Celebrates the Weird
Editor’s Note: This piece on The X-Files episode “Humbug” was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist. While he’s credited with the story for the earlier Season 2 episode “Blood,” Darin Morgan’s first official writer credit […] More
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Married…With Children Remains a Breath of Fresh Stale Air
It was with some trepidation that I returned to Married…With Children. It’s a show that I watched quite a bit when I was a kid, in the early 1990s, when I was arguably too young for it. Married…With Children felt like a door into being older than I was in a way I wanted, kind […] More
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The Sarah Connor Chronicles Was the Best T2 Sequel
I was privileged to watch the first episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles when I attended my first and only Comic-Con in the summer of 2007. The show seemed interesting enough. I was a fan of the Terminator films, but I cannot overstate how little of a chance I originally gave this show. Let […] More
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In The X-Files: “The Post-Modern Prometheus” Mulder Defies Reality
“The Post-Modern Prometheus” really started kicking the X-Files monster of the week episodes into a higher gear. Part of the success of The X-Files in the early years was its relatively experimental episodic format that bounced back and forth from standalone stories to a larger seasons-long arc that delved into the show’s extra-terrestrial mythos. The […] More
