Great Tapes!!! The tapes were wonderful. Clear, and great quality. The really good news about receiving these tapes were that I got them in a timely manner...
Read this review Do you want to know how you're going to die? "Yes, I do..." No, you don't. The X-Files never reached greater heights of episode quality than on October 3, 1995, when it aired "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose". Bruckman (played by the incomparable Peter Boyle) is a middle-aged balding bachelor who recognizes life for the meaningless, empty game it is...and never has a television character carried such wisdom in every word, every gesture, every glance... This episode alone should warrant buying the video set (the others are of high quality as well, especially "War of the Coprophages", though I doubt the other episodes will appeal much to people who haven't followed the complicated mythology of the series). As another X-Files character once said, "Everything dies" - more than enough reason why the first episode in this set is a must--have.Great box set from the best season (#3) of the X Files This "wave" (5), along with 6, are the video representatives of the third season of the X Files. Since the X Files have set a standard of excellence that will most likely NEVER by equalled in television again, discussion of the merits of this or that particular episode/season should be qualified; in other words, even the BAD episodes (there aren't many) have something of interest in them. That being said, I feel that season three is the best overall season to date; although only 12 episodes have been chosen (as with the other seasons), they easily could have rounded up another 8 of similiar quality ( e.g. OUBLIETTE, GROTESQUE, SYZYGY,THE LIST,etc). The mythology 2-parters from the 3rd season are the absolute best to date. Newcomers to the X Files will be blown away by the production values these shows exhibit. Also included are writer Darrin Morgan's masterpieces, self-mocking,quirky and strangely moving. I can't recommend these episodes highly enough; it's a very rare phenomenon indeed when high art is extremely popular. The X Files IS such a phenomenon.
