After returning to television for a six-episode series last year, Scully and Mulder will resume their hunt for THE TRUTH. Chris Carter, Gillian Anderson, and David Duchovny will all be back for a ten-episode “event series” sometime in the 2017-2018 season.
The last event series added a new, wistful tone to the detectives’ relationship, along with new recurring character Tad O’Malley, a bloviating conspiracy theorist played by Joel McHale, new mini-agents Miller and Einstein, and a few great scenes of Mitch Pileggi’s A.D. Skinner. It will be interesting to see if they return given the expanded ten-episode format the show has to play with. The last series also delved more into Scully and Mulder’s past together and the fate of their child, William, so it seems inevitable that he’ll figure into the new mini-season.
You can read more about the new series over at EW! What do you want to see when The X-Files returns…again?
Ditch Chris Carter and maybe I’ll be interested.
I want more Mulder on shrooms, and -if we can skip the casual transphobia, please, this time- more of the weremonster and maybe a tale about bigfoot or something woodsy. I always liked X-Files campier episodes and folk-monster freaks of the week tales. I know that the aliens were always where the X-files started but I found the big conspiracy and the aliens stuff to be a bit boring, so I’m hoping for a quick resolve on that and onto something campy and fun.
Chris Carter coming back as show-runner is less important to me than Glen Wong and the Morgan brothers returning as part of the writing crew, which is not made at all clear from the EW article. So my optimism is guarded. Still looking forward to it, though….
—Keith R.A. DeCandido