The File Room

It’s a big episode this week as we tackle one of the consensus picks for best episode of the entire series.

Ed and Michaela discuss one of the coolest and most fun episodes of the X Files so far featuring a young Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi. 

The thrilling finale of The X-Files' first three-parter has everything: bright lights, a mine in British Columbia pretending to be West Virginia, old men in rooms. Michaela and Ed discuss all this as well as the bits of real-life history that make this episode one of the best Mythology episodes the show ever did.

We're back to dive right into the action for this season 3 opener. 

As they wrap up their first full year of the podcast, Michaela and Ed look back on the year, then go over the spreadsheet and try to assess how good season 2 of The X-Files was.
Thank you to everyone who has listened to the show this year! Happy holidays, and see you in 2025!

Spider Divination, aliens (?), all the bad stuff America has done and much more, in this thrilling, explosive season finale chat.

Michaela and Ed reconvene after a month away from recording to talk about their trip to New York, before delving into an episode that is packed with literary allusions and chicken bits.

Michaela and Ed get a break from so-so formulaic episodes this week thanks to one Vince Gilligan, who makes his X-Files writing debut with a strange and inventive science gone wrong story.
 
Also, apologies for all the US politics talk at the beginning, this episode was recorded the Sunday after the election.