The X-Files - Season 3 (7.7/10)
Average episode rating = 7.7/10
This is truly an incredible season despite whatever my personal average episode rating would indicate. The first ten episodes of the season were an absolute blast to watch and the second half of the season was a slight step down for me in comparison. "Paper Clip", "Nisei" and "731" were each wonderful mythology episodes and "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" is as good a television episode as any I have ever seen.
The most severe criticism I would make is the string of episodes from "Revelations" through to "Grotesque" despite it containing the magnificent "War of the Coprophages" felt a little frustrating to endure, especially as the Scully and Mulder dynamic felt a little under-utilized.
If there's any episode that disappointed me, it would have to be "Pusher", one of the fan favourites. Otherwise, this is an incredible season with many episodes that promise fortuitous re-watching for me, none more so than "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'".
This is truly an incredible season despite whatever my personal average episode rating would indicate. The first ten episodes of the season were an absolute blast to watch and the second half of the season was a slight step down for me in comparison. "Paper Clip", "Nisei" and "731" were each wonderful mythology episodes and "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" is as good a television episode as any I have ever seen.
The most severe criticism I would make is the string of episodes from "Revelations" through to "Grotesque" despite it containing the magnificent "War of the Coprophages" felt a little frustrating to endure, especially as the Scully and Mulder dynamic felt a little under-utilized.
If there's any episode that disappointed me, it would have to be "Pusher", one of the fan favourites. Otherwise, this is an incredible season with many episodes that promise fortuitous re-watching for me, none more so than "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'".
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- DirectorR.W. GoodwinStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA furious pursuit of Agent Mulder is underway, and more importantly, the government wants the data tape he carried. Agent Scully, against all odds, searches to uncover his whereabouts, persisting that he is alive when all others deny it.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiAs a government hit squad closes in on the agents, Mulder searches for clues about his father's involvement in a top secret project.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonGiovanni RibisiThe agents investigate the deaths of several young people who were apparently struck by lightning in the same small town.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonPeter BoyleA grumpy old man with psychic powers that show him how someone will die assists the agents with the hunt for a crazed killer who targets psychics. He also cryptically reveals to Mulder and Scully their own ultimate fates.
- DirectorChris CarterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonBokeem WoodbineEnemies of a prison inmate who was executed in the electric chair begin dying one by one.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonTimothy CarhartShy, overweight women are being pursued online by a suitor who courts them with Italian poetry. The women are being found dead, their corpses stripped of flesh.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonThomas KopacheA quadruple amputee becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre deaths at an army hospital.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonTracey EllisA woman experiences a psychic connection with a teenager held captive by a deranged man.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiAn "alien autopsy" videotape and a murder spark Mulder's search for a strange creature. Scully looks for information about her disappearance.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonStephen McHattieMulder becomes trapped aboard a train rigged with an explosive device. Scully searches for the truth behind the government's secret experiments.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonKevin ZegersMulder and Scully attempt to protect a boy, whose death could trigger the coming of Armageddon, from a possibly demonic serial killer who targets people with stigmata.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonBobbie PhillipsWhile looking for signs of alien ships in the sky above a small town, Mulder learns of a series of deaths supposedly caused by metallic cockroaches. He turns to sexy entomologist Bambi for help, which makes Scully angrily rush to his aid.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonDana Wheeler-NicholsonA rare alignment of the planets gives two homicidal teenage girls dangerous telekinetic powers while simultaneously driving their small town insane with satanic panic. Mulder's interest in the local female detective makes Scully jealous.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiAfter a serial killer, who claims to have killed people under the influence of a demon, is arrested, the murders continue. Meanwhile Mulder, who believes that the demon might have picked someone new, goes neck-deep in the investigation.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiThe agents investigate the mystery surrounding a sunken World War II aircraft.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiMulder uncovers clues about a cover-up involving an alien entity and a sunken World War II aircraft. Scully pursues the man who murdered her sister.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiA seemingly unmotivated murderer, who can apparently talk his victims into killing themselves is on the loose and it is up to Mulder and Scully to study the clues left to them by the person and capture him.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonVic TrevinoMulder and Scully investigate the disappearance of several members of an archaeological team that in Ecuador excavated an ancient burial urn supposedly protected by the vengeful spirit of the jaguar and had it sent to a museum in Boston.
- DirectorTucker GatesStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonBD WongMulder, Scully and a local Chinese American cop investigate a deadly secret lottery run by the Triads in San Francisco's Chinatown district. The game is free to play but losing will cost you more than an arm and a leg.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonCharles Nelson ReillyScully recounts the investigation of an alleged UFO encounter for the famous quirky author Jose Chung's latest novel. The case gives a whole new meaning to the term Rashomon effect. Chung later returns in Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' (1997).
- DirectorJim CharlestonStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiSkinner, depressed over the fact that his wife is divorcing him, has a one night stand with a stranger who's found murdered in the morning. Mulder tries to prove Skinner's innocence but Skinner refuses to cooperate for some reason.
- DirectorKim MannersStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonChris EllisMulder suspects that a beast similar to the Loch Ness Monster is responsible for the deaths of several people who reside near a large lake. Frustrated Scully insightfully confronts Mulder about the futility of their work on X-Files.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiMulder and Scully investigate a series of murders linked to a mysterious device that alters television signals causing paranoid hallucinations. One of them falls victim to it.
- DirectorR.W. GoodwinStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonMitch PileggiAfter his mother suffers a stroke under strange circumstances, Mulder searches for a strange, benevolent alien man that possesses miraculous healing powers.