"Ten years ago, the six-episode 10th season premiered with "My Struggle," written and directed by X-Files creator Chris Carter, and picking up right where he left off with his ever-evolving mythology. It's clearly meant to evoke the show's glory days, reusing the same opening-credits sequence and revisiting one of the most famous UFO incidents of all time, the alleged 1947 crash of an alien vessel in Roswell, New Mexico."
"Original stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were both absent for lengthy stretches of time, while the long-running "mythology" storylines had grown far too convoluted, with multiple overlapping explanations for the vast alien-invasion conspiracies that FBI agents Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) investigated. The subsequent 2008 movie The X-Files: I Want to Believe didn't offer much of an improvement, despite bringing back Duchovny and Anderson and focusing on a standalone story."
By its 2002 finale the original nine-season run had lost momentum, with lead actors absent for long stretches and mythology storylines becoming overcomplicated with overlapping explanations for alien-invasion conspiracies. The 2008 film I Want to Believe failed to substantially improve the franchise's standing. The 2016 six-episode revival opened with "My Struggle," written and directed by Chris Carter, and revisited Roswell while reusing classic visual elements. The episode reoriented the series for a contemporary decade while retaining core features, and it foregrounded the politicization of conspiracy culture by introducing Tad O'Malley, an Alex Jones–like host who amplifies far-right talking points alongside UFO cover-up claims.
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