Dinara Tengri

First, a little announcement. I will be going to the Montreal Comic Con this July. David Duchovny, William B. Davis and Pileggi will be among the guests. As well as James Marsters, a.k.a. Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer . To say that I'm excited is an understatement. This will be my first visit to North America, and my first real Comic Con. I still haven't decided if I'm going to cosplay or just go as myself.  And now to the review. It's the grand finale, baby!  Just like the previous three obligatory mythology episodes, "My Struggle IV" opens with a monologue by one of the main characters. It's William's turn to tell his story. In Ghouli, we were introduced to a complicated young man who had trouble controlling his superpowers. And here we learn through flashbacks just how much trouble William's superpowers have caused him and his loved ones. William is now on the run from the law, wrongfully accused for murdering his adopted ...

So, we've come to this: the bottom of the barrel. Season ten had "Babylon". Season eleven has "Nothing Lasts Forever". Luckily, neither does this episode. Written by Karen Nielsen and directed by the show veteran James Wong, this second to last X-file takes us to the Bronx where a series of what looks like ritualistic murders attracts the attention of our heroes. The victims were surgeons who were harvesting organs when they were staked through the heart by a young woman – Juliet, who was quoting from a biblical psalm. The woman then left the harvested organs at the door of a nearby hospital with a note that said, "I will repay".  Turns out, the surgeons were part of a cult of cannibals who have been prolonging their lives and fixing their physical deformities by consuming human flesh and blood. One of the cult's latest recruits is Juliet’s sister, Olivia, and now we know the cause behind Juliet’s crusade.  All the mystery is thrown ou...

"Familiar" is the eighth episode of season eleven of The  X-Files. It was written by Benjamin Van Allen and directed by Holly Dale.   After the genre experiment that was " RM9SBG93ZXJZ ", "Familiar" takes us back to the world where  The X-Files  feels the most at home: in a small town plagued by monsters, serial killers and viral paranoia. It's a classic monster of the week that provides us with some good old-fashioned horror and asks interesting questions about human nature. A little boy named Andrew is brutally killed in the small town of Eastwood, Connecticut. Since Andrew was the son of a local police officer, the case falls in the FBI:s jurisdiction, so agents Scully and Mulder are called in to investigate. The local police conclude that it was an animal attack, but the agents have their own theories.  Given the town's history of witch trials and legends of an actual witch who spontaneously self-combusted, Mulder suspec...