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X-Files 2x11 (Patreon)

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2026-07-12 16:00:05
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Taco Wolf

re: "what do I know her from?" that's Frances Bay, you know her from Twin Peaks and Arachnophobia. She's been in a couple of David Lynch films (Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart) and John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. As well as just a ton of different shows and movies (she played "Grandma" in Happy Gilmore if you've seen that) re: your confusion about the episode, yeah I don't think this one was put together well, unfortunately. They tried to do too much and it kinda fell apart. X-Files had so many banger episodes that when they miss, it's pretty apparent.

TGrimace

I would *LOVE* to watch Kat react to Twin Peaks. Now that would be a ride!

Taco Wolf

She watched the show during lockdown iirc, but she's put it up on polls as a potential re-watch.

James At the Peak

A Convalescent Home is a Senior housing and assisted living. Convalescent means the process of gradually regaining health and strength after a illness,Sickness or injury. Love my X-Files Sundays. I would like to recommend the 80's Film "Cocoon'' which deals with renewal of our Elderly. Thank you, your Patron Rocks Baby.

K, Zachary

We were definitely confused with this episode as well. There is a few episodes that miss. All of them can't be perfect. Next week Aubrey doesn't miss. August 1-12 we will be out of the country. So I will be logging out of Patreon for that time frame. Actually going to miss you Kat.

Steve

The old man taking too many pills caused the dead to become active. The dead stopped being active when the old man was given a shot of something by the doctor to calm him down.

BrakYeller

Kat really needs to do In the Mouth of Madness... that's one of my favorite John Carpenter films. (I would've sworn she did a reaction to it at some point but I don't see it in her feed, so I'm assuming she hasn't seen it.)

BrakYeller

One of the things I miss most about TV from before streaming was longer seasons. When you have 20-26 weekly episodes, you can have an average episode or even a complete miss, but you're still building up the lore and mythology of the show. In the streaming era of 10 episodes per season, one bad episode can tank a show. We don't give shows room to grow, make mistakes, and course correct any more. This is definitely one of the thoroughly average episodes of the season. It was apparently being re-written as it was being shot... the original script was taking some huge swings the budget couldn't cover, and it lost something in the effort. But we still get some great Mulder & Scully moments out of it (a favorite among them is the elderly man calling out their mutual attraction), and of course Scully arrives seconds too late to see the paranormal activity again! And I do appreciate the attempt by the scriptwriter to discuss the elder care industry and America's approach to elder care in general, ham-fisted though it turned out. Also good to see Sab Shimono, yet another "that guy!" get for the series (and another chance for a veteran character actor to do some good work with a messy script). As others have pointed out, I believe the general idea of the plot was that Gung's pills plus the experimental Alzheimer's treatment gave some of the patients varying degrees of paranormal/astral travel abilities, and what Stephen King might call a "thinning" of the veil between the world of the living and the dead. One guy gets psychic powers, and Frances Bay gets to see ghosts. And, of course, as soon as some people get those abilities they immediately let their worst impulses reign and want more of it.

Adam Cliett

This isn't the best episode. Actually, it's one of the worst of season 2. Next week is better. Then after that, we have Irresistible. One of the best of the entire series. P.S. The old lady is in Happy Gilmore.

Jessie Caldwell

Here's one of my processes I adhere to when watching the X-Files... if an episode has gaping holes in the logic, I fill in those holes myself. For example, perhaps when the old people take the mushroom powder, it connects them to ancestral spirits, but if too much is taken, it gives the spirits an ability to have an effect on our real world. That's how they managed to keep the door shut while the room filled with water, and the other physical manifestations. I've discovered that on some episodes, that's the best way to enjoy them without getting bogged down with all the absurdities. I do, however, appreciate when the writing is tight and logical, and they have obviously spent the time to work out the problems.

Who Are These People

I've mentioned it before, but a lot of these episodes are just like articles from a magazine called 'The Fortean Times'. Every kind of unexplained phenomenon has been explored. Some people who have taken mushrooms have reported leaving their body and moving around in spirit form. Some say these are just hallucinations. This episode works on the theory that certain psychoactive drugs may induce out-of-body astral projections. So the old folks were 'projecting' a spirit form out of their bodies because of the mushrooms. Then I guess the astral forms lingered, I suppose that's thought to be an explanation for 'ghost' phenomena.

Josh Link

She is also in the excellent John Carpenter film In the Mouth of Madness along with the late great Sam Neill. Highly recommend watching it for the channel!

Jonathan Kardell

My theory about this episode is that the old fellow was overdosing on the mushroom treatments. The orderly was warning him that taking too much was dangerous. The mushrooms, when used in large doses, opens a pathway through which spirits can pass, but it also enables telekinetic abilities in the people taking the mushrooms. This is why the old guy was able to kill the orderly, prying one finger at a time off the window ledge. I don't know if you noticed, but when the old guy's room mate threatened to rat him out, did you see the camera zoom in so that we could see the throat of the dying room mate deform as if he was being strangled. When the old guy finally overdosed on the mushrooms, not only was he becoming super powerful, but the pathway to the spirit world was opened wider, so that the cute old lady could see the spirits clustering around the living people. When the old guy finally was sedated, his telekinetic power stopped, and the pathway to the spirit world closed. That's how I choose to make it make some sense. Confusing because of two different effects caused by the mushrooms at the same time, but the giveaway at the end was when the telekinesis AND the ghosts went away at the same time that the old guy was sedated. This causes a logic flaw, unless they sedated him long enough for the mushrooms to ear off completely his powers would temporarily return.... Oh well, nothing is perfect.

James Cole

I look forward to Kats reacts every week more than I waited with anticipation every week for XFiles and Millennium. You are simply the best!

RJ Inkglider

I agree with you Kat. This episode was pretty sketchily drawn and lacking in logic. They came up with the rape opener but it never really was explained to any degree. Too many unanswered questions. My recollection was that this show really didn't hit its stride until later.

RJ Inkglider

By the same token there are a lot more "filler" episodes and this one was clearly one of them. Still I agree that while there are fewer episodes in today's series, they haven't necessarily gotten better in equal proportion.

BrakYeller

That's kind of what I'm getting at. A longer season with more episodes give the ability to take more chances; you might take a big swing that hits and becomes a standout of the series, but if an episode doesn't quite hit, it doesn't mean that 1/10 or 1/6 of your series is literally killing your show's ratings. In a lot of the network shows from the 70s-2000s, it was the 'filler' episodes that did the heavy lifting of building the show's world, because even if the individual episode itself wasn't memorable the details of the world being built were. In the era of streaming, every single moment has to be 100% solid and contribute to the whole or you lose your audience faster, which means the show gets cancelled (or not renewed), and a potential long-running series or franchise just gets chopped off at the knees because one "off" show make a much bigger impact on your metrics. Every episode *has* to be a home run, and that kind of stinks. You have to be able to make mistakes to get better, and a lot of solid shows just aren't getting that chance in the age of streaming, which is a shame.

Totemkauf

She also played the lady that got a $6 loaf of marble rye stolen from her by Seinfeld