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We had a viewing party for the premiere. To be honest, we were more looking forward to Bruce Campbell’s “Adventures of Brisco County, Jr”, which premiered just

We had a viewing party for the premiere. To be honest, we were more looking forward to Bruce Campbell’s “Adventures of Brisco County, Jr”, which premiered just before the “X-Files” (and is now sadly forgotten). The “X-Files” hooked us right from the start. The only show that even came close to that first episode was “Lost” many years later. Most first season episodes were strong, with some downright classics, and the show was captivating from the beginning. Helps that the two leads were well cast and the writing was way better than the typical genre series. (Two of the X-Files writers went off to showrun the criminally underrated “Space: Above and Beyond”, too. Without the success of X-Files, we wouldn’t have gotten that.)

saltysalt 3y ago
"Space: Above and Beyond" is awesome! I'd also like to mentioned "Millennium" as being underrated.
- gramie 3y ago
  Season 2 of Millennium ranks up there with my favourite television ever. Season 1 was mostly "Serial killer of the week" episodes, and Season 3 was clearly the studio trying to make TV as they understood it, and ruining everything. Season 2, though, was quirky, dark, passionate, eerie, theological, and funny.
throwaway-2356 3y ago
I've always thought of "Fringe" as a spiritual successor of X-Files. It's one of my all time favorite shows.
- southwesterly 3y ago
  Adored Fringe and yes, am sure there were X files references in the show. There were certainly Twin Peaks references in it.
D13Fd 3y ago
> Bruce Campbell’s “Adventures of Brisco County, Jr”, which premiered just before the “X-Files” (and is now sadly forgotten). Not forgotten by me. Some of my favorite childhood memories are ordering pizza and watching Brisco County, Jr. and X-Files on Friday nights for the season Brisco ran. I was always disappointed that Brisco County, Jr. didn't get a second season. But it did get kind of weird when it veered off of old west stuff and into aliens/supernatural stuff.
- aceazzameen 3y ago
  I loved Brisco County Jr! And then after it vanished, the theme song ended up being used all the time for the Olympics on NBC. Maybe it still is, not sure. Regardless, each time it played all I could think of was Brisco.

saltysalt 3y ago

"Space: Above and Beyond" is awesome! I'd also like to mentioned "Millennium" as being underrated.

gramie 3y ago
Season 2 of Millennium ranks up there with my favourite television ever. Season 1 was mostly "Serial killer of the week" episodes, and Season 3 was clearly the studio trying to make TV as they understood it, and ruining everything. Season 2, though, was quirky, dark, passionate, eerie, theological, and funny.

throwaway-2356 3y ago

I've always thought of "Fringe" as a spiritual successor of X-Files. It's one of my all time favorite shows.

southwesterly 3y ago
Adored Fringe and yes, am sure there were X files references in the show. There were certainly Twin Peaks references in it.

D13Fd 3y ago

> Bruce Campbell’s “Adventures of Brisco County, Jr”, which premiered just before the “X-Files” (and is now sadly forgotten). Not forgotten by me. Some of my favorite childhood memories are ordering pizza and watching Brisco County, Jr. and X-Files on Friday nights for the season Brisco ran. I was always disappointed that Brisco County, Jr. didn't get a second season. But it did get kind of weird when it veered off of old west stuff and into aliens/supernatural stuff.

aceazzameen 3y ago
I loved Brisco County Jr! And then after it vanished, the theme song ended up being used all the time for the Olympics on NBC. Maybe it still is, not sure. Regardless, each time it played all I could think of was Brisco.