Avatar (3X21) Episode Grade: C Original Air Date: April 26, 1996 Writer: Howard Gordon (Story by David Duchovny) Director: James Charleston Notable Guest Stars: Amanda Tapping (Stargate SG-1, Sanctuary, Supernatural) Recap & Review: We begin with Skinner refusing to sign divorce papers. He goes to a bar and meets a blonde who’s pretty in a […]
Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’ (3X20) Episode Grade: A+++ Original Air Date: April 12, 1996 Writer: Darin Morgan Director: Rob Bowman Notable Guest Stars: Charles Nelson Reilly, Alex Trebek, and Jesse Ventura. Recap & Review: This episode is basically impossible to recap without just transcribing the entire thing. There are frames within frames, lies and […]
Hell Money (3X19) Episode Grade: C- Original Air Date: March 29, 1996 Writer: Jeffrey Vlaming Director: Tucker Gates Notable Guest Stars: BD Wong, James Hong, and Lucy (Alexis) Liu all make an appearance. Recap & Review: We begin in San Francisco’s Chinatownl you can tell because not only is there an informative caption, but there’s […]
Teso Dos Bichos (3×18) Episode Grade: D+ Original Air Date: March 8, 1996 Writer: John Shiban Director: Kim Manners Notable Guest Stars: None. Unless you count all the cats. Recap & Review: We begin at an archaeological dig in South America. You can tell, because of all the pan flute music and mustachioed guys wearing […]
Pusher (3×17) Original Air Date: February 23, 1996 Writer: Vince Gilligan Director: Rob Bowman Notable Guest Stars: Robert Wisden gives a compelling performance as Robert “Pusher” Modell. Mitch Pileggi gets kicked by a girl. Oh, and Dave Grohl (as in Nirvana & Foo Fighters Dave Grohl) has a very brief appearance in the background of […]
Apocrypha (3X16) Episode Grade: Original Air Date: February 16, 1996 Writer: Frank Spotnitz & Chris Carter Director: Kim Manners Notable Guest Stars: We got Mitch Pileggi and Nicholas Lea, William B. Davis as the CSM, John Neville as one of the old white dudes who secretly run the world, and the Lone Gunmen. It’s a party, and […]
“Piper Maru” (3×15) Episode Grade: B Original Air Date: February 9, 1996 Writer: Chris Carter & Frank Spotniz Director: Rob Bowman Notable Guest Stars: Mitch Pileggi is in the house as Skinner, and Nicholas Lea returns as Krycek. Recap & Review: The pre-credits sequence shows a team of French sailors exploring a wreck on the […]
Grotesque (3X14) Original Air Date: February 2nd, 1996 Writer: Howard Gordon Director: Kim Manners Notable Guest Stars: Kurtwood Smith guest stars on this episode; coincidentally, his future TV daughter (from That 70s Show) guest starred on last week’s show. Episode Grade: B+ Recap & Review: The pre-credits scene begins with a shot of a beautiful […]
Syzgy (3×13) Episode Grade: C+ Original Air Date: January 26th, 1996 Writer: Chris Carter Director: Rob Bowman Notable Guest Stars: Lisa Robin Kelly, best known as Eric’s older sister on That 70s Show, is great as one of the evil teenage girls. (Sadly, she passed away in 2013 from a drug overdose.) A relatively unknown […]
War of the Coprophages (3×12) Episode Grade: B- Original Air Date: January 5th, 1996 Writer: Darin Morgan Director: Kim Manners Notable Guest Stars: Tyler Labine, the poor man’s Jack Black who would later star on Reaper and Tucker & Dale Vs Evil, makes a brief appearance as a bleach-blond stoner. Recap & Review: Behold the […]
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