The X Files S10E03: "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster"
A lot of people feel that this season's Darin Morgan episode was great, or even enough to justify the rest of the season. I am not one of these people.
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- This is a story of mid-life white male crisis, which is not, I have to admit, a topic that particularly interests me to begin with. Here, as in many other places, it's treated as a universal human experience, rather than an experience that's very culturally and socially specific. Mulder's mid life crisis is paralleled by the were-monster's mid-life crisis, which is treated as an allegory for life in the 21st century: Get born into a world you don't understand. Get a life you don't understand. Feel an immediate attraction to women and feel an inexplicable impulse to lie about your sex life.
- I don't find the conversation where Mulder takes both sides of the argument hilarious. I find it an example of mansplaining so extreme the woman doesn't even get to speak before being splained to.
- Comic relief drug-addicted black trans woman prostitute.
- What the fuck is up with that psychiatrist?
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