On January 24, 2016, The X-Files six-part miniseries aired on The Fox network at 9:00 P.M. The stars of The X-Files reboot David Duchovny, of Californication fame, and Gillian Anderson, who had starred in Princess Mononoke and Hannibal, reprised their roles from the original series that had first aired on September 10,1993, which had nine seasons and two movies. Nik Kay, a junior, had said, “I am very excited for the miniseries and I hope it’ll be a worthy successor, but I won’t be banking on this being too great.”

The show had focused on the FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) throughout their investigations on unsolved cases, known as x-files. Fox Mulder is a strong believer in extraterrestrial beings and held the belief that there was a government conspiracy that tried to hide the existence of these inhuman beings. His belief stems from when he was twelve years old and his younger sister had, as he had believed, been abducted by aliens.

Scully, a skeptic and firm believer in science, posed as Fox’s complete opposite. Scully had originally joined the x-files as a way for the FBI to monitor and keep Mulder in check. Scully always offered a scientific explanation to what was happening, which opposed Mulder’s more fantastical answer. Yet this dynamic never pushed these two characters apart; it brought them closer.

Nik Kay also stated, in regard to his favorite character, character development, and the show’s writing, “I can’t really choose because I was interested how each character turned out and I am unable to choose whom I think I liked from the story the most… I suppose just seeing how interesting the show was after watching that first episode inspired me to watch more.”

The series had started as cult hit, but later had been deemed as cultural touchstone that would later TV series like Lost, Fringe, Warehouse 13, Supernatural, Gravity Falls, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

If you are interested in watching this tv classic, it is available on Netflix and Hulu. Also, if you currently don’t the time to watch the entire series and watch two films, you can check out the X-Files Wiki if you can get around the school’s web filter.  If not, you can check out the X-Files wikipedia page here.