The X-Files

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Season 6
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 10, 1993
Season #: 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 72 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 64 out of 72
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 72
  3. Negative: 2 out of 72
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  1. drlowdon
    Aug 20, 2018
    9
    By this sixth season The X-Files mythology had started to become too complex for its own good, the writers desperately trying to offer long time viewers something without providing the complete closure that would potentially end the series. Apparently creator Chris Carter had a five year plan for the series and it becomes clear that from this point onwards elements of the mythology areBy this sixth season The X-Files mythology had started to become too complex for its own good, the writers desperately trying to offer long time viewers something without providing the complete closure that would potentially end the series. Apparently creator Chris Carter had a five year plan for the series and it becomes clear that from this point onwards elements of the mythology are being changed and stretched to keep things going.

    Having said all that this is still a great series of television featuring a number of memorable episodes. The writers generally opt for a lighter tone, particularly in the first half of this season, that demonstrate a great self-awareness of the shows established tropes and, most importantly, focus on the Mulder/Scully dynamic that has always been the real key to the shows success.    … Expand
  2. bsmith
    Mar 16, 2014
    8
    This sixth season of The X-Files features some highly memorable moments, and it never fails to entertain. Mulder and Scully pursue the truth, no matter the cost. Their characters stay true to their beliefs, and some aspects of season six allows viewers to witness this in the most radical of ways. It's enough to keep fans on the edge.
  3. MorbidPig
    Aug 17, 2014
    8
    This sixth season of The X-Files features some highly memorable moments, and it never fails to entertain. Mulder and Scully pursue the truth, no matter the cost. Their characters stay true to their beliefs, and some aspects of season six allows viewers to witness this in the most radical of ways. It's enough to keep fans on the edge.
  4. fbtimes
    Mar 30, 2015
    8
    This sixth season of The X-Files features some highly memorable moments, and it never fails to entertain. Mulder and Scully pursue the truth, no matter the cost. Their characters stay true to their beliefs, and some aspects of season six allows viewers to witness this in the most radical of ways. It's enough to keep fans on the edge.
  5. fbtimesofficial
    Sep 1, 2015
    8
    This sixth season of The X-Files features some highly memorable moments, and it never fails to entertain. Mulder and Scully pursue the truth, no matter the cost. Their characters stay true to their beliefs, and some aspects of season six allows viewers to witness this in the most radical of ways. It's enough to keep fans on the edge.
  6. bsmith94
    Dec 15, 2015
    8
    This sixth season of The X-Files features some highly memorable moments, and it never fails to entertain. Mulder and Scully pursue the truth, no matter the cost. Their characters stay true to their beliefs, and some aspects of season six allows viewers to witness this in the most radical of ways. It's enough to keep fans on the edge.
  7. MovieMasterEd
    Mar 22, 2016
    7
    The sixth season of The X-Files is notable for many different reasons. It was the first season after the release of The X-Files: Fight the Future. It was the first season following the move to Los Angeles. It saw the “end” (at least nominally) of the show’s conspiracy mythology in the massive Two Fathers and One Son two-parter. It was the first season to begin closer to the end of theThe sixth season of The X-Files is notable for many different reasons. It was the first season after the release of The X-Files: Fight the Future. It was the first season following the move to Los Angeles. It saw the “end” (at least nominally) of the show’s conspiracy mythology in the massive Two Fathers and One Son two-parter. It was the first season to begin closer to the end of the show’s nine-year run than to the beginning. It was also the first season to open past the hundred-episode mark.

    That last landmark is important, because it marks the point at which The X-Files could effectively be sold into syndication. One hundred episodes meant that a network could air the show five nights a week for twenty weeks, filling up almost half a year’s worth of broadcasting slots. Reaching the one hundred episode mark meant that a show was a bona fides success, and that anything else was really just gravy on top. The bulk of the work had been done. The X-Files would be a rare prime-time drama to pass two hundred episodes.

    Of course, times have changed. By 2011, the number of episodes required for a syndication deal had slipped from one hundred to a mere eighty-eight, with the goal being four seasons of twenty-two episodes. (This trend happened while The X-Files was on the air, with the show dropping from twenty-four or twenty-five episodes in a season at the start of its run to twenty-two or twenty towards the end.) Even then, streaming has changed the media landscape, making it more possible than ever to syndicate show with shorter runs, like Community.

    So syndication beckoned for The X-Files. In fact, syndication would pose no shortage of trouble for the show in the years ahead. During the seventh season, David Duchovny would file a lawsuit against Fox alleging that the company’s syndication policy had cost him financially. After the show went off the air, Carter would find himself embroiled in a similar lawsuit over syndication rights, delaying production of The X-Files: I Want to Believe. There are worse ways to argue that The X-Files was a victim of its own success than to look at the syndication of the show.

    Nevertheless, it was clear that The X-Files had accomplished everything that it could ever want by the start of the sixth season. Chris Carter had his five seasons and a movie. Fox had a show they could syndicate. David Duchovny had forced the production to move to Los Angeles so that he could spend time with his family. Although nobody knew it at the time, the fifth season secured the highest rankings that a season of The X-Files would enjoy in the Nielsen Ratings. So going into the sixth season of The X-Files, there was only one question hanging in the air.

    Six years is a long time in the life of anything, let alone a television show. Television is a very dynamic and cut-throat medium; with many show lucky to last a single season, let alone five. In six years, the entire medium can change dramatically. With its weekly schedules and its tight production deadlines, television is a medium that seems to be in a constant state of evolution and growth. With each pilot season, ideas tend to get thrown at the wall. The good ideas stick, the bad ideas sink.

    There was a very clear sense that The X-Files could never end. Carter has talked at length about how his ideal version of The X-Files would have ran for five seasons before spawning a movie franchise, so the fact that Fox signed everybody for a sixth and seventh season suggests that those plans were lost to history. The show’s possible immortality became a recurring motif in the sixth season, creating a sense that the writers hoped (or feared) that the series could run forever.

    The X-Files had become a veteran television show, one that had outlasted many of its contemporaries. Although the sixth season feels playful and adventurous in style and tone, these elements serve to conceal a very real and deep-seated fear of change. That is not an issue in this run of episodes, where The X-Files is still riding the crest of the wave it spent four years building. However, change is coming.    … Expand
  8. ForReals13
    Apr 7, 2018
    9
    The Beginning B+. Drive A-. Triangle A. Dreamland A.
    Dreamland II A. How The Ghosts Stole Christmas B+.
    Terms Of Endearment B. The Rain King B-. S.R. 819 B+.
    Tithonus A-. Two Fathers A. One Son A. Agua Mala B-.
    Monday A. Arcadia A-. Alpha C-. Trevor B-. Milagro B+.
    The Unnatural A-. Three Of A Kind B+. Field Trip A.
    Biogenesis A-.
  9. Pedrohenriwuef
    Aug 2, 2021
    10
    Ótima temporada a melhor da serie apesar de ter um tom diferente das outras temporadas como pouquíssimos episódios mitológicos e os episódios dos monstros da semanas serem substituído por episódios de Tom mais leve e engraçado, esta nova mudança na minha opinião, foi ótima para a serie .