I JUST WANT TO BELIEVE

THE X-FILES ARE BACK YA'LL!!!

In case you've been living under a rock for the past year, news flash - we got 6 new episodes of The X-Files. And last Sunday and Monday were the first two episodes.

But let's go back in time a little bit....on September 10th in 1993 a show premiered on Fox about two FBI special agents Fox Mulder, played by David Duchovny, and Dana Scully, played by Gillian Anderson. Fox Mulder, known within the ranks as "spooky Mulder", investigates unsolved cases which involve anything paranormal, known as...you guessed it...the X-Files. Scully is tasked with joining Mulder because she is a strong skeptic and can hopefully bring Mulder back to earth, no pun intended. And over the span of nine seasons and two movies, the magnificent duo investigated everything from aliens to soul eaters to parasitic slugs to spooky twins and so much more.

The X-Files was, and still is, a massive hit that changed pop culture forever. It was positively reviewed pretty much throughout its whole run, the actors and the show won a bunch of awards, and the story lines caused the public to mistrust the government, which was kind of just a bonus. It spawned a spin off show and like I said, two movies, along with a tone of great merchandise.

In March of last year Chris Carter, the creator, announced that a miniseries would begin filming shortly and that both Duchovny and Anderson were on board. Social media went nuts, I cried for about an hour, and everywhere around the world the ICONIC X-Files theme song rang out.

And now here we are, two episodes into our six series arc and I'm reading a lot of bad reviews out there which I think is bullshit. People should just be happy we have the X-Files back and stop pouting like little babies about what they thought the show should've been about.

So here's some positive reviews...and SPOILERS...MAJOR SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Episode One - My Struggle

"My name is Fox Mulder..." is the start of the episode and I was already screaming. We hear Mulder give us a bit of a monologue to kind of catch us up to modern day, it has been 14 years after all. Mulder is still up to his old conspiracy tricks while Scully is a surgeon, working on children with disfigurements. But the two are reunited by an online webcaster named Tad O'Malley (played by Community's Joel McHale) who drags them out to the middle of nowhere to meet some young lady with holes in her stomach. The girl claims to have been abducted multiple times and had many babies inputted and then removed from her. The agents go their separate ways again, Scully remaining skeptic, Mulder jumping in head first. The episode wraps up with Mulder and Tad O'Malley getting ready to expose a giant conspiracy theory while Scully frowns and side eyes everyone. But instead, Tad O'Malley is shut the fuck down and all the evidence is destroyed, leaving Mulder with nothing. He returns to the FBI and his old office and with the help of Scully, decides to re-open the X-Files. The episodes ends in the most epic way ever with the Cigarette Smoking Man alive, still smoking, but through a hole in his throat, looking off into the distance and saying, "the X-Files have been re-opened". YAS GAWD THEY HAVE!!!

As far as this episode goes, I was confused as hell. I loved every minute of it and it was super thrilling and intense, but it all went way over my head. The conspiracy theory was too complex and complicated and almost too much to be shoved into an hour long episode. But it was so great to have Mulder and Scully back that I didn't really care. And the ending had me so ramped up ya'll, I was LIVING.

Episode Two - Founder's Mutation

This one was MUCH better. It was a one off monster style episode starting out with a doctor working at the headquarters of Nugenics Technology. He keeps hearing this awful high pitched noise and weird voices, he ends up shoving a letter opener right into his brain to stop it and killing himself. Mulder and Scully investigate and become suspicious right away when the Department of Defense basically shuts down the crime scene and forces them to stop investigating. But these two are smarty pants and using every trick in the book they trace it all back to the founder of the organization who is secretly mutilating children and experimenting on pregnant women trying to create some sort of super kids.

I loved every moment of this episode, it was so fun and old school. I loved the super kids with their X-Men like powers, and I was heartbroken when Mulder and Scully reminisced about their own child, William. It was super great and honestly I just can't wait to watch the next four episodes and see where it all goes!!

So that's it! I love the new episodes, I'm just thrilled to have them, I'm emotionally unstable about Mulder and Scully being back together, and I think everyone needs to lower their expectations, chill, and enjoy what we have.

Stay Spooky....the truth is out there!