Critic, Sir! logoCritic, Sir!
The X-Files
The X-Files
TV ShowEnded

The X-Files

“The truth is out there.”

8.4 / 10
1993
11 seasons
218 episodes
MysterySci-Fi & FantasyCrime

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

Sign in to add to your list

What critics are saying

Verdicts use the same scale as your list: highly recommended through avoid — plus optional scores and blurbs.

Highly recommended Recommend Give it a go Neutral Avoid

Nobody on Critic, Sir! has logged a verdict for this title yet. The silence is either respectful or suspicious.

Sign in and use Add to My List below to share your own verdict.

Trailer

THE X-FILES Season 11 Official Trailer (2018) TV Show HD

Where to Watch(AU)

Hulu
Hulu

Streaming data provided by JustWatch via TMDB.

Cast

David Duchovny

Gillian Anderson

Mitch Pileggi

William B. Davis

Robert Patrick

Tom Braidwood

Bruce Harwood

Dean Haglund

Annabeth Gish

Nicholas Lea

James Pickens Jr.

Sheila Larken

Seasons

Two agents from vastly different backgrounds join forces to solve cases the FBI has labeled X-Files, involving paranormal or unexplained phenomena. Both are determined to uncover hidden truths — one searching for otherworldly answers, the other for more earthbound scientific explanations. Together they will make discoveries neither could have ever imagined.

  • Pilot

    1.Pilot

    8.0
    10-09-199349m

    Agent Dana Scully is assigned to work with Agent Fox Mulder on the X-Files in an attempt to debunk his work on the paranormal. Their first case takes them to Oregon to investigate...

  • Deep Throat

    2.Deep Throat

    7.8
    17-09-199346m

    Mulder and Scully investigate the mysterious case of a military test pilot who disappeared after experiencing strange psychotic behavior. While on the case, Mulder meets a mysterio...

  • Squeeze

    3.Squeeze

    8.2
    24-09-199343m

    Mulder and Scully search for a killer whose savage murder spree reoccurs every thirty years, where there appears to be no tangible method for the murderer's entrance and escape.

  • Conduit

    4.Conduit

    7.4
    01-10-199345m

    As Section Chief Blevins expresses his concern with the direction of the X-Files, Mulder becomes obsessed with solving a case that closely parallels an encounter he experienced as...

  • The Jersey Devil

    5.The Jersey Devil

    6.9
    08-10-199345m

    Mulder and Scully track a legendary creature that has roamed the New Jersey countryside for over forty years..

  • Shadows

    6.Shadows

    7.3
    22-10-199346m

    Mulder and Scully investigate the deaths of two men believed to have been killed by a powerful psychokinetic force.

  • Ghost in the Machine

    7.Ghost in the Machine

    6.9
    29-10-199346m

    It's Halloween, and Mulder and Scully are investigating the strange death of a corporate executive in a sophisticated high-tech building.

  • Ice

    8.Ice

    8.4
    05-11-199346m

    In the claustrophobic isolation of a remote outpost in Alaska, Mulder and Scully investigate the horrifying deaths of scientists.

  • Space

    9.Space

    6.5
    12-11-199347m

    Mulder and Scully are contacted by a communications specialist from NASA who shows them evidence of sabotage in the space programme.

  • Fallen Angel

    10.Fallen Angel

    7.7
    19-11-199346m

    Mulder puts the future of the X-Files in jeopardy when he heads to a UFO crash site being rapidly covered up by the military. He is arrested, and while in jail he meets Max Fenig,...

  • Eve

    11.Eve

    7.9
    10-12-199346m

    When two fathers on opposite sides of the country are inexplicably murdered at the exact same time in the exact same way, Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate. When they...

  • Fire

    12.Fire

    7.1
    17-12-199346m

    An old Oxford girlfriend of Mulder's asks for his help on an international case concerning the unexplainable execution of several British dignitaries, and they encounter an assassi...

  • Beyond the Sea

    13.Beyond the Sea

    7.9
    07-01-199446m

    When death row inmate Luther Lee Boggs claims to be psychic and can lead Mulder to a serial killer in return for a lesser sentence of life in prison, Scully becomes an unwilling be...

  • Gender Bender

    14.Gender Bender

    7.1
    21-01-199445m

    A series of sexually-oriented murders, which are identical except that the killer appears to be both male and female, draws Scully and Mulder to an Amish-type community of people c...

  • Lazarus

    15.Lazarus

    7.0
    04-02-199446m

    When FBI Agent Jack Willis and bank robber Warren Dupre are both shot at the same time during a robbery attempt, Dupre dies when Willis is brought back to life. When Willis rushes...

  • Young at Heart

    16.Young at Heart

    7.2
    11-02-199446m

    Mulder becomes the target of someone from his past named John Barnett. He was a jewelry store robber with an itchy trigger finger that Mulder sent to prison when he first joined th...

  • E.B.E.

    17.E.B.E.

    8.1
    18-02-199445m

    Mulder and Scully receive information from Deep Throat about a UFO that was shot down over Iraq and has been secretly transported to the US. However, Deep Throat then intentionally...

  • Miracle Man

    18.Miracle Man

    7.2
    18-03-199446m

    A young man who has the power to heal people with his touch begins to question his gift when people start dying after he has supposedly healed them.

  • Shapes

    19.Shapes

    7.1
    01-04-199446m

    Mulder and Scully travel to a Native American reservation to investigate the death of a man who was mistaken for a wild animal and may have been the legendary Manitou, a man who ca...

  • Darkness Falls

    20.Darkness Falls

    8.0
    15-04-199444m

    When a group of loggers in the Washington State National Forest disappear in the same way that another group disappeared 50 years ago, Mulder and Scully go along to investigate and...

  • Tooms

    21.Tooms

    8.2
    22-04-199446m

    Eugene Tooms is released from the sanitarium, and Mulder becomes personally involved to ensure that he is caught in the act of getting the last human liver he needs to go into hibe...

  • Born Again

    22.Born Again

    7.0
    29-04-199445m

    After a detective and his former partner die in unexplained circumstances, the accidents are linked to a little girl who witnessed both deaths. Mulder believes that she may be the...

  • Roland

    23.Roland

    7.4
    06-05-199446m

    Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a scientist working on advanced propulsion technology. The mentally challenged janitor Roland, who has secretly been completing the scien...

  • The Erlenmeyer Flask

    24.The Erlenmeyer Flask

    8.7
    13-05-199446m

    When Deep Throat points out a news story about a fugitive who apparently drowned, Mulder and Scully cannot see what makes the case special but follow it up anyway. With Deep Throat...

Watching Lists

Sign in to create and edit public lists.

Loading lists…

Purchase & Discovery

Find this title on Amazon

Digital

Prime Video & digital

Amazon mixes rent, buy, and Prime in one place — one search covers the usual options.

Physical edition

4K Blu-ray & physical releasesSearch on Amazon

Official merchandise

Official-style merch searchApparel, collectibles, and more

As an Amazon Associate, Critic, Sir! earns from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure