Product Description
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All twenty-five episodes from the second series of the popular
science-fiction series presented in a limited-edition box set. In
'Little Green Men' Mulder tries to make contact with a UFO. In
'The Host' Mulder and Scully go down into the New Jersey sewer
system in search of a genetic mutant. 'Blood' sees the duo
investigate some bizarre small town murders. 'less' has
Mulder meet a man who might just be able to use his dreams to
commit murder. 'Duane Barry' brings him face-to-face with a
man who cls to have been the subject of some alien
experiments. In 'Ascension' Mulder searches for a disappeared
Scully. '3' has him investigate a bunch of ritualistic murders.
And in 'One Breath', he gets closer to solving the mystery of
Scully's disappearence. 'Firewalker' finds the agents stalked by
a dangerous life form. 'Red Museum' sees them investigate the
activities of a sinister religious cult in a remote rural
community. In 'Excelsius Dei' they arrive at a nursing home to
take on a killer poltergeist. 'Aubrey' sees Mulder and Scully
help a pregnant woman who is being stalked by a serial killer.
'Irresistable' finds Mulder pursuing a dangerous fetishist. 'Die
Hand die Verletzt' has the duo take on a Satan-worshipping
substitute teacher. 'Fresh s' introduces them to a voodoo
priest who might be able to raise the dead. In the two-part
episode 'Colony/Endgame' Mulder uncovers a suprising secret about
his sister. 'Fearful Symmetry' finds the agents investigating the
mysterious impregnations of rare zoo animals. 'Dod Kalm' has the
agents effected by a other-worldly force which causes them to age
at an alarming rate. 'Humbug' follows the bizarre events which
surround a series of murders in a circus. 'Calusari' concerns a
case of exorcism and demonic possession. 'F. Emasculata' sees the
agents track down the causes of a viral epidemic which has been
unleashed in a prison. 'Soft Light' finds them on the trail of a
scientist who has turned his shadow into a means of instant
death. 'Our Town' has them look into the ties between a case of
cannibalism and the possibility of eternal life. And finally, in
'Anasazi', the duo discover the connection between a series of
secret government experiments and a UFO cover-up.
.co.uk Review
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Season Two, the 1994-95 run, of The X Files was the one where
creator Chris Carter, having had a surprise hit when he expected
a one-season wonder, started trying to make sense of all the
storylines he had thrown into the pile in the first year.
Moreover, he had to cope with Gillian Anderson's maternity leave
by having Scully get abducted by aliens (back then, a pretty
fresh device) for a few episodes and come back strangely altered.
The season also inaugurated the tradition of opening ("Little
Green Men") and closing ("Anasazi") with the show's worst
episodes, both pot-boiling attempts to keep the alien
infiltration/government conspiracy balls up in the air while
seeming to offer narrative forward-thrusts or revelations.
But it's also a show noticeably surer of itself than Season One,
with its stars reading from the same page in terms of their
characters' relationship and attitudes to the wondrous. Scully's
no-longer-workable scepticism finally starts to erode in the face
of Mulder's increasingly cracked belief. There are fewer
marking-time leftover-monster-of-the-week shows--although we do
get a human fluke ("The Host"), vampires ("3"), an invisible
rapist ("Excelsius Dei") voodoo ("Fresh s")--and the
flying-saucer stories at last seem to be going somewhere. The
powerful two-episode run ("Duane Barry", "Ascension") features
Steve Railsback as Mulder's possible future, an FBI agent burned
out after a UFO abduction who has become a hostage-taking
terrorist, which climaxes with Scully's disappearance into the
light. The standout episode is also a stand-alone--"Humbug"--the
first and still most successful of the show's self-parodies
(written by Darin Morgan, who had played the Flukeman in "The
Host"), in which the agents investigate a murder in a circus
freakshow, allowing the actors to make fun of the mannerisms they
have earnestly built up in a run of solemn, even somnolent,
explorations of the murk. Other worthy efforts: "Aubrey", about
genetic memory; "Irresistible", a rare (and creepy) straight
psycho-chiller with little paranormal content; and "The
Calusari", a good ghost/mystery. Rising deputy characters include
Nicholas Lea as the perfidious Krycek and Brian Thompson as the
shapeshifting alien bounty hunters. Notable guest stars: Charles
Martin Smith, C.C.H. Pounder, Leland Orser, Terry O'Quinn, Bruce
Weitz, Daniel Benzali, John Savage, Vincent Schiavelli, Tony
Shalhoub. --Kim Newman