In theory, this could have been a good idea.
Thankfully for most viewers, the latest premiere of The X Files eradicates much of season 10’s convoluted mythology, insisting that the apocalyptic events of “My Struggle II” never took place, but are instead visions of the future psychically transmitted to Scully from her gifted son William (Miles Robbins). St century conspiracy theory under the sun, from vaccine paranoia to chem trails. The season 10 finalé, “My Struggle II”, chose to divide its heroes for nearly the entire episode while unleashing “The Spartan Virus”, a global contagion involving seemingly every viral 21 The aptly titled premiere episode, “My Struggle”, is a tedious, anguished romp through the show’s mythological arch weighed down by stilted dialogue, disengaged acting from David Duchovny, and an incoherent, over-the-top conspiracy theory against humanity, courtesy of the show’s main antagonist, The Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Despite a couple of solid monster-of-the week episodes, a bizarre appearance from Tim Armstrong from Rancid, and the classic “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster”, the season will be largely remembered as a missed opportunity unable to survive off nostalgia alone. When The X Files returned to network television in early 2016, much of the landmark science fiction show’s 10 th season suffered at the hands of Chris Carter, its own creator.
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