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I’m rewatching Irresistible and it hits way harder than I remembered.

What gets me now is that it does not feel like a monster episode at all. That is what makes it so unsettling. There is nothing supernatural to hide behind. It is just violation, obsession, and that awful feeling that evil can be completely ordinary.

I also think this is one of the episodes where Scully’s experience lingers in a different way than people usually talk about. It is not just about what happens in the case. It is the psychological residue after it. That is the part that stayed with me this time.

I keep feeling like this episode says something bigger about the kind of horror The X Files could do when it stripped everything else away.

Curious how other people read it on rewatch. Is Irresistible one of the darkest episodes of the series for you, or do you put others above it?

I was watching series 1 again because my 8 year old brain couldn't remember every episode. I was surprised to see lets call him a 'baby double agent'. This actor must have made an impression on Chris C.

Hello all - watching Conduit (E4S1) at the end where the mom says "As far as I'm concerned (my daughter) spent all weekend on the back of a Harley." Mulder: "Is that what you're going to tell Kevin (her grandson)? YES MULDER, she's going to tell her own grandson about mom's proclivity for being a biker mama! Like a LOT of our fave pro-and-antagonists (I'm also bingeing House), a lot of 90s shenanigans are SO bad it's like expecting legal advice from Law n' Order! Also, how often did they try to find dates for Scully or Mulder?

The Spanish speakers all use ponderous “high school Spanish”. Complete ¿Dónde está la biblioteca? situation.

The phrasing is all wrong. It’s like they’re speaking Spanish for Gringos. Nothing spoken in Spanish is at all convincing.

Surely they could have found actors who were fluent Spanish speakers?

Have you guys seen his youtube channel? He has some pretty good explanatory videos about acting if you haven’t seen em you should check it out!

I’m amazed that even a few years after my initial watch I still have empathy towards Cancer Man during the first three seasons because of “Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man”.

Major props to William B Davis and his excellent portrayal.