DVD Review: X-Files Revelations - The Essential Guide to the X-Files Movie - Page 3

The DVD set is available July 8. With the street price at around $17.00, and a free movie ticket, the price is certainly right, especially if you don’t already have the entire series in your DVD collection. Even if you already have the first six seasons on DVD, it can be nice to have a pre-selected assortment of some the series’ best episodes in one small set. However, the very brief, albeit new, episode introductions, panel discussion, and included theatrical trailer do not render this collection exactly “essential” to veteran X-Philes. The film The X-Files: I Want to Believe opens July 25.

So, my fellow “philes,” in anticipation of the upcoming film, dust off your old DVDs (or pop in this new one) and think about which episodes would you include in your own “essential guide to the X-Files.”

Here are mine; and if not necessarily “essential,” they are certainly among my favorites:

• Season One: “Pilot,” “Deep Throat,” “Ice,” “The Erlenmeyer Flask”
• Season Two: “Little Green Men,” “One Breath,” “Irresistible,” “Humbug”
• Season Three: “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose,” “Grotesque,” “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space”
• Season Four: “Field Where I Died,” “Paper Hearts,” “Memento Mori,” ”Demons,” “Gethsemane”
• Season Five: “Redux” (2-parter),”Post Modern Prometheus,” “Mind’s Eye,” “Folie a Deux,” “The End”
• Season Six: “Triangle,” “Dreamland (two-parter),” "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas,” “The Unnatural”

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