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Episode 13: Why I Rage-Quit The X-Files

Episode 13: Why I Rage-Quit The X-Files

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Sometimes your favorite show will break your heart, and not in a good way. The X-Files' 11th season began with an episode that left me disgusted. So much so that I have never revisited what had been my favorite show for over 20 years. Immediately after the episode aired in 2018 I wrote a blog post detailing what had turned me off the show. Does the blog post hold up? Will revisiting it lead me to feel more comfortable dipping my toe back into the X-Phile life? Join me on this week's episode to find the answers. The truth is out there but also here. As in...in this episode.

TW/CW: Mentions of rape, lack of consent, forced impregnation.

Special Segment: Coming Soon. The 2022 book The Trees by Percival Everett is being adapted into a series and I'm very excited about the casting news!

Link to Deadline article

The Entertainment Weekly article mentioned in the reading of the blog post has been taken down (iiiinteresting) but is referenced here.

Podcast music: “Couture Fantasy" and "Mid Western”, by Eino Toivanen, kongano.com Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0

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