Further TV watching this last week:
X-Files: me and Missus are ploughing on with our big watch; all of the X-Files episodes, one or two a night. We started last year and broke for Christmas and New Year, resuming this week .
We skipped the infamously gruesome episode 'Home' about the Peacock 'family', as I knew the Missus would find it a hard and upsetting watch.
Carrying on, We got to Season 4 episode 5 last night - " The Field Where I died". Its about Mulder's previous life in the American Civil War, as well as modern day cult with a member who was also in Mulder's old life. The poem in the field is quite moving.
https://youtu.be/5WsqCuuV_IE?feature=shared
Civil War; I watched this modern American flick late one night on my own. And what a harrowing and wholly depressing carry-on it was too. Parts of the South verses the President's North if I understood it correctly. Kirsten Dunst's dour face said it all - could things really get this bad? It reminded me of the National Guard being mean in Earthquake [1974] but dialled up to Lethal: in the modern movie soldiers were simply killing fellow citizens at random. Could it really get this bad?
Longlegs: the name intrigued me so I thought it might be a sort of slender man horror. No. This wasn't really a horror film, more like a dark thriller in the vein of Se7en or Silence of the Lambs. A socially awkward FBI agent is tasked with finding a cold case killer called Longlegs, who has got up and started stretching his legs again, which is apparently never good for the town. SPOILER ALERT! The killer himself is really odd, a sort of flour-dusted hippy with red lips and a high-pitched voice who loves to sing instead of speak. I found it all a bit slow and boring. He didn't even have long legs!
Have you seen any of these readers? What are you watching?
The Field Where I died is an excellent episode, quite moving. The actress who plays the cult member who was involved with Mulder in a previous life was a regular in season 2 of Millennium, playing a great character who was disturbed by seeing angels before bad things happened!
ReplyDeleteWe may move onto Millennium when we're all X Filed Kev. I enjoyed the Field episode too. Oddly enough I've just read a review saying it was one of the more boring episodes! ha ha
DeleteMillennium is very good but stick with it, the first season is very procedural crime investigation, then it suddenly takes off to become the X Files!
DeleteSo funny to hear your comments about HOME, our absolutely favorite episode of The X-Files! The wife and I had the extreme fortune to view that episode on its infamous first broadcast. If you think the version that exists now in syndication is nasty, you should have seen the original airing, which contained an epilogue which was NEVER repeated. I'm surprised they got away with it the first time! SFZ
ReplyDeleteWow, even more gruesome! Blimey! I'll have to catch up with HOME late one night when the Missus is all tucked up. I have seen it before, just not sure when. I don't think it was that infamous debut like you guys! I wish I'd been there! Did you splutter in your popcorn!
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