Excellent video man. Been waiting for this one. Not only is this episode my favorite in the X-Files it's probably my favorite in any horror series. Love all the other episodes but this one feels so fucking visceral and real specially for someone like me who lives in the mountains and a partially rural area. These videos are killer!
This episode really fuck me up when i was a teenager... i never looked the countryside the same way ever again...... THANKS for the vids.. Love the channel!!!!!
This was another one I saw on the original air date, and at 12 years old, I was deeply disturbed by the whole thing. Its still one of the most classic episodes though, and I've re-watched it a good 4-5 times because its so well done. Just like you mentioned, I always found the death of the sheriff and his wife to be the most disturbing part, especially because they built him up as this really kind, folksy, middle America type guy (doesn't even carry a gun), then he and his wife get taken out in such a brutal way with that song playing and everything.
I first watched this when I was 20 and I nearly needed therapy after it. Unequivocally my favorite episode of the series. A very interesting point to consider: this episode achieves this level of horror and notoriety without ever delving into the supernatural or paranormal.
Take all the time you need bro! There is no schedule you need to stick to on youtube, you're on your own schedule. I remember the controversy surrounding this episode in the early 2000's. It's crazy rewatching it later on in my adult years and realizing just how fucked up it really was. That scene with the attack on the policeman and his wife always stuck with me, and the reveal with what was really going in that look on Mulder's face. Keep it up man. I loving this trip down memory lane.
I always thought how Mulder and Scully effectively screwed up this case 1. got the towns law enforcement completely wiped out 2. main suspects got away lol 🙄🙄🙄
@@JBSpookyReview they're so similar it's almost impossible to NOT be, but it think they both (and I'm sure many many other episodes from crime TV shows) more likely trace their inspiration to movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and real life serial killers like John Wayne Gacy (and Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs)
There was a huge build up to this episode back then. I remember exactly what I was doing. Was at a party and had my crush in bed and we were excited to watch this one, then her friend came in, then her little brother, then her mom, then Richie, then Adam, then like 15 more people.
Amazing video man, love this episode so much it's so dark but still has a bit of humour in it. God i miss good television (nothing in modern times comes close to peak x files)
By far the creepiest episode. When I realized that was the mother, I was like “Whoa… that’s some dark stuff there!”. I wish Neca would make Peacock family figures.
I remember watching this when it came on… it was my introduction to my girlfriend’s parents to the X-Files. Needless to say… dinner after was awkward. 😂
This episode is classic X-Files perfection. I was surprised to hear it was “banned” though, personally I didn’t see what the big deal was. (The 90’s were a totally different time though, I’m sure) The only thing that would’ve made this episode even better is if they’d kept that deleted scene in 😂
Yes we are all really lucky folks to watch your reviews. It had to be that a special review because it was that a special episode for us all back in the day. By the way you can still spot this famous house located at the 13287 Colebrook Road, Surrey, BC 😉
I just don't know what to say to this episode. I really don't feel the need to watch it again 😬The balls the producers had, though! 😶 Thanks so much for covering this one 🤗Must supplement your video on one point: Space Above and Beyond was a magnificent show, ahead of its time, and was mismarketed by its cable channel. So Morgan and Wong were able to return with their heads held high 😉
One of my favorite episodes - ever since I was a kid. Have always liked the darker fairytales and such, so this episode was right up my alley. Hate the fact that the main bad got away though. I might like darker stories, but I want to feel satisfied in some way at the end and didn't at the end of this episode. So while I really like this episode, it won't reach the absolute top for me. Also, love this kind of horror, where most things are just implied but never shown. Because what we can imagine will always be worse than anything they can show us.
Yeah they refused to re-air. Now it wasn't banned from every network. I know here in Canada it would get shown on the Space channel in re-runs, but Fox I guess had advertisers they had to listen to.
Oddly, Maulder and Scully seem at their most beautiful. The "baby" conversation on the bench always stuck w me. The strange moment for flirting over the poor dead baby was still refreshing. Also Maulder's baseball obsession makes its first appearance a great theme for Duchovny. "Shut up Scully were playing baseball" Aww!
That was one episode I barely managed to watch the first time around back than … I mean, good one… but oh it was gruesome…, thanks for your analisis as always 🌸
This never aired in South America Cable TV, when I found out about it the Internet was the place you logged by making a landline call... this download at 240 x180 or some miniature like that took almost a day and lots of luck that the call didn't hung.. Since there I always knew the in the future I'll talk to a machine and the TV will show what I want. turns out I hate voice recognition on either language (ENG - SPA) so almost made me realize the inevitable things to come. On the other hand and tottaly out of place: Who in his sane mind could ever Imagine what Star Wars has become. As allways love you bro JB.
I do have a question, given that you've referenced Millennium a few times here. Given that one of the X-files episodes is an merged finale for Millennium, are you planning on doing any Millennium reviews? I never watched the show back in the day but I am admittedly curious.
I've never actually seen Millennium myself either, outside of one single episode. I do have the show on my laptop and do own the DVD's just never got around to it. What I might do is one long retrospective instead of the individual episode, but that would take a long time to do.
Definitely a crazy dark episode that probably did draw heavy inspiration from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes, and that documentary, but would also go on to probably inspire the Wrong Turn franchise as many of the same beats and style is seen throughout it. While I am not a big fan of this style of horror I think the playing of shadows throughout the episode while terrifying helps me get through it as while I can imagine the horror of the sheriff and his wife or the baby, not actually seeing it makes it more digestible than seeing saw the sight of the mother which is still hard to get through because on an instinctive level going all the way back ancient first world civilizations you'd be hard pressed to find one that would let a person still through like that as it really is not way to live, which also adds to the horror of the situation that even ancient man would have found fault with this family.
This one was banned? I mean, it's not that hard to believe nowadays but back then? I don't know what to say. Regardless, this one is definitely the best season four episode and up there with my favorite episodes. So powerful, so morbid, so vile and yet a great episode for anyone who has never seen the X-Files to watch. If it's too much, they'll be glad to know that it doesn't ever go this hard. If they love it, well, there's other episodes of this caliber in the series but few that go this dark.
@@JBSpookyReview : Okay, that makes sense because I could've sworn I've seen this on Sci Fi and BBC America before. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss cable. The randomness of it all was really something that I took from granted.
If I remember correctly the directors and producers who made this episode actually got threats about closing the X files serie all together cause parents to families found this episode to damn disturbing.
I love this episode in part because it shows how jaded and possibly sociopathic Mulder and Scully are. When the man is caught by the trap and "hyena style" brutalized, Mulder comments like he is watching a discovery channel episode and Scully shows no human emotions whatsoever. That established that these two former humans, Mulder and Scully, are now scientists who feel nothing no matter what horrific things they witness. And I'm okay with that. Sociopaths exist. Humans incapable of feeling any sympathy for other humans exist. And this series is about two of those inhumane humans who care nothing about anyone except possibly each other. It's different from other shows. It might be an X-Files exclusive portrayal of two monsters who have paired up in order to witness and shrug off the worst examples of humanity. Most of the time you see it in the "monster of the week" episodes, but it bleeds into the series as a whole. These are two humans who crack jokes at horrific things, because their motives and personal beliefs are more important than the sufferings of others. It's a very different take. I think the closest any other series has reached is "Bones," where the main character is supposedly so mentally special that she doesn't understand how "normal" humans are supposed to react. The X-Files did it first. They took two likeable characters and had them laugh and make "Babe" jokes minutes after likeable humans died in horrific ways because they don't care about humans, or about any living creatures at all. They're monsters joking at the expense of others. And that's fun to watch and follow because you didn't see that very often back when this series came out. Frankly, I find it amusing and amazing that people continued to see Mulder and Scully as "good people" after this episode. How many humans would say "Bah Rahm Yuu" to sheep after watching a man be beaten to death? Only a few whose names aren't Mulder and Scully.
For a long time this was my favorite episode. I still like it a lot, certainly in my Top 20. I, for one, am grateful that Home Again wasn't a sequel to Home. The X-Files rarely did sequels, and out of those did do, only Tooms is really good. Orison and Kitsunegari are major step downs from Irresistible and Pusher. Given the revival seasons were mostly embarrassing already, the chances of a sequel to Home living up to they hype were slim to none.
I think I've only seen this ep 2-3 twice. I think the first time I saw it... my brain didn't register a lot of it. I don't quite think I "got" the thing with the mother. (My brain is kind to me that way.) So I wasn't as freaked out about it as I had heard over and over that I would be. It's only been through the years as I've watched reviews / commentary that it has sunk in more and freaked me out more. Wait... why did they keep her under the bed like that? I'd never heard that Charlie Chaplin story. Nor did I know that was not the Johnny Mathis version of Wonderful, Wonderful! I am hoping my brain will once again erase this ep from my mind. Along with the later "revivals." UGH!
@@JBSpookyReview I guess I'm in the minority, but I liked some of the eps in Seasons 8-9. I liked Doggett & Reyes as characters. (And Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish as actors. I think they were treated so poorly by fans.) But it really was an entirely different show at that point. The revivals or whatever they were called that happened after Season 9 were godawful. Truly.
I hate when critics say low budget , budget has nothing to do with quality entertainment. Do your homework. Like I said before its about the skills not money and you agreed but still you say low budget for some riduculous reasons.
I remember when Millennium premiered. It sounded like subject matter i would like, and i likes X Files, and i like Lance Henriksen. but after that first episode, i was disappointed
Woohoo! Y'a'int dead. Great start. Every day I wake up not dead is a good day to do some being alive in. Home, eh? yeah. This is on my skipisode list, but, not because it's bad, not at all, because it's creepy. Also, there's no supernatural element so. "We're Federal Agents, we're here to help you!" No wonder she's screaming in fear… And yes, yes, I was about to say exactly that, taking a baseball bat full on across the chest is going to break some bones, and that stops things from working even if you cannot feel pain, so, yeah, a nine millimeter doing mach one through the same area, that's not something to shrug off. I think maybe the plan was for their to be a Home 2, but, I mean I'm already not buying their isolation - you are not going to get me to believe you can make plaid cotton with zero industry - they HAVE to be getting some of their stuff from town. How in the hell is that car running if it doesn't get the occasional mechanical and at the very least, oil and fuel. So, them running, well, shuffling and rolling, off to a new place to set up home? How are they going to buy a new house? I mean, if nothing else they've got to be the most obvious wanted list suspects in the entire world, mutant boy and the human skateboard? How is that going to be missed? And yeah, they'd be on a wanted list, setting up traps in your own home is quasi legal at the best of times but doing so and having one of them bisect a family member, that is not going to be legal. I mentioned that thing about the accidental circuses… So, anyway, we were doing pre-production on a music video… This one… ruclips.net/video/FkF_XpA5P48/видео.html I'm in it, but I'll not say where. Anyhoo, we really, really wanted a circus as part of the whole background and went on a bender phoning round every travelling circus in the Semi-United Kingdom asking how they'd feel about coming down to Sussex to do a day's gig for no money but being prominently in a music video. Everyone told us to fudge cough, as well they should. Well, except for one, who thought it was a spiffy idea and they already liked the Professor, so, we told 'em they'd need to be set up for start of shooting which was inked in for ten in the aim. Had to be gone by seven peem because we'd sort of stolen the field in which we were shooting and their night security turned up at eight. In addition, every single steam-punk, goth, wierdo, street performer and generalised oddball had got their invitation to be a part of the crowd, and so, it's freezing, seven am, we're in a field trying to be quiet as the strangest fleet of discombobulated whack-a-doodles started turning up, expecting to be fed and watered, which we'd told them would be possible. Around nine the circus turns up and we're very happy, point them to their area, and let them have at it whilst we were working things out with the gorilla wrangler and the gorilla, who we'd worked with before, so, we'd almost remembered that she was actually a lady in a gorilla suit and needed things like, being talked to and let out of the suit from time to time because… Well, anyway, the circus got set up in less than an hour, but several of the waifs had brought portable stalls and things and they weren't set up, so, we're hip deep in getting all this lobstock set up, including a few arguments with a woman who didn't seem to understand that of the two things - filming a music video and her putting up her second hand clothing shop, the video was the important one, our runner, Cherry, having fallen in love with the pretty weasel wrangler who did the floaty balls thing, so, he stopped doing his job, and the choreographer struggling to get people to pay attention to the simple dance routine she'd worked out, and we're an hour late but that's kinda normal so, we're not stressing too much and then the circus turned up. No, the OTHER circus. See, we'd got one circus to agree to come down and all the others said no, except one of them had said no in such a way as we thought they were being just a bit sarcastic, along the lines of… "Lemme get this straight, you want me to pack up my entire travelling top, and a bunch of the performers, drive down to Sussex, which is two hundred miles away, set everything up, do stunts for your camera and we're not going to be paid, right?" So we took that as a no. Found out as his truck lumbered up the road that he was a very literal minded chap and if we'd just replied with 'Yes' he'd have just said 'OK'. So, we can't exactly tell him to sod off, so, we have an ad hoc replan and get them to set up on the eastern end of the fete as we started filming on the western end and planned to get to them as they got ready. We're in a total frenzy at this point, herding cats on a grand scale, but we're getting there, my little role gets thrown out because I'm having to do Cherry's job now, which is legging it at speed between various elements, but, Moog's getting things done and then our villain turns up on a unicycle, soaked with sweat because he thought Worthing was basically next door to Brighton, where he'd got the train to, so he'd done three hours of unicycling more or less uphill to get there several hours late, but, we were able to get him into a costume, and get the shots needed. Long day.
@@JBSpookyReview Heh. Her name is Linda, IIRC, and, to do the gorilla walk she wears these hand extender things, so, there's no way for her to remove her mask on her own. Thing is, she's so good at being a gorilla everyone forgets it's actually a nice lady in there so, there was more than one time we all had tea except we forgot the Gorilla. Mad thing, but, you know, a life of strange is a good life. And no, I was the one in the hat. ;-)
@@JBSpookyReview Ha ha! I apologized to my daughter last night for subjecting her to the X-Files when she was growing up. She said it made her scared, but she’s forgiven me. She’s one tough cookie.
Sorry but I can't stand people who purposefully don't lock their doors. Like it takes one second and you have nothing to lose doing it. What are you trying to prove with unlocked doors? Lock your doors! *end rant*
@JBSpookyReview it actually blows my mind when I dislike something greatly and I see someone else love it, in an odd way it makes me see new value in it that a variety of opinions can come from something. Great vid btw
my main question is why they chose this episode to start establishing scullys potential want to be a mother. the whole conversation between her and mrs peacock seemed so on the head, like she was giving her that typical "youre not fulfilling your womanly duties and you'll only understand once youre a mother" guilt, which seemed to have a legit effect on her. Ive only seen up until this episode, but i know that eventually she does have a kid, but it just seems like scully wouldnt value motherhood for herself, like she would not find satisfaction in it. i suppose that is just my interpretation of her character, and im sure a lot of it is projection, but still my main question stands. why this episode?? the one with incest?? like why not choose a scully-centric episode, like maybe in a scene that has something to do with her own mother. it just seems like a weird place to establish this
This was definitely one of my faves of the entire series. Worth waiting for this review! The only thing is now I'm not sure which X-files prop I'd rather have more, Mr Stabby or a pen light? 🤔
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Excellent video man. Been waiting for this one. Not only is this episode my favorite in the X-Files it's probably my favorite in any horror series. Love all the other episodes but this one feels so fucking visceral and real specially for someone like me who lives in the mountains and a partially rural area. These videos are killer!
Yeah I'm more of a horror guy than anything, so when X-Files goes pure horror, I'm in bliss.
@@JBSpookyReview This episode formed the basis for a highly innovative tribute ruclips.net/video/P2VrEcm20QM/видео.htmlsi=DNVA-q-IdO-abllY
This episode really fuck me up when i was a teenager... i never looked the countryside the same way ever again...... THANKS for the vids.. Love the channel!!!!!
Haha this video makes me want to live in the country. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.
Cause cities are sooo much better right
This was another one I saw on the original air date, and at 12 years old, I was deeply disturbed by the whole thing. Its still one of the most classic episodes though, and I've re-watched it a good 4-5 times because its so well done. Just like you mentioned, I always found the death of the sheriff and his wife to be the most disturbing part, especially because they built him up as this really kind, folksy, middle America type guy (doesn't even carry a gun), then he and his wife get taken out in such a brutal way with that song playing and everything.
The death of the Sheriff and his wife really is sad. Small town folk are my kind of people.
I first watched this when I was 20 and I nearly needed therapy after it. Unequivocally my favorite episode of the series. A very interesting point to consider: this episode achieves this level of horror and notoriety without ever delving into the supernatural or paranormal.
That's a good point to make. This is more the darker side of humanity than something that goes bump in the night.
Be thankful, I was 12 when I saw it and this episode still sticks with me.
I think I was 10 when I saw this episode. The best of season 4 without a doubt and one of the best of the series.
Take all the time you need bro! There is no schedule you need to stick to on youtube, you're on your own schedule.
I remember the controversy surrounding this episode in the early 2000's. It's crazy rewatching it later on in my adult years and realizing just how fucked up it really was. That scene with the attack on the policeman and his wife always stuck with me, and the reveal with what was really going in that look on Mulder's face.
Keep it up man. I loving this trip down memory lane.
I appreciate it, I just don't want to X-Files stuff to take 10 years and I have a million other videos I want to do as well.
We had it made in the 90s. Network television kicked ass back then
Everything was better then.
The greatest X-Files episode ever...
I have to agree with you.
I always thought how Mulder and Scully
effectively screwed up this case
1. got the towns law enforcement completely wiped out
2. main suspects got away lol 🙄🙄🙄
Yeah they really dropped the ball LMAO
Great episode! That Wonderful, Wonderful song at the end still gives me chills
Older music always has a haunting quality to it and I can't listen to that song now without thinking of this episode.
I can't believe I missed you posting this, hands down one of the best episodes (and I just rewatched "The Benders" episode of Supernatural last week).
I read that the Benders is supposed to be loosely inspired by this episode, but I couldn't find anything that confirmed it.
@@JBSpookyReview they're so similar it's almost impossible to NOT be, but it think they both (and I'm sure many many other episodes from crime TV shows) more likely trace their inspiration to movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and real life serial killers like John Wayne Gacy (and Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs)
@@schulzbrianr You were hot back in the day if that pic is of you. (Sorry, couldn't help myself haha)
Your enthusiasm for this episode won me over.
I love this episode and I love this show, as silly as it can be at times.
1:16 that actually reminds me of Child’s Play 2 when Chucky buries Tommy under the swing set
Oh nice pull.
There was a huge build up to this episode back then. I remember exactly what I was doing. Was at a party and had my crush in bed and we were excited to watch this one, then her friend came in, then her little brother, then her mom, then Richie, then Adam, then like 15 more people.
Haha sounds like a good time.
Welcome back man! Awesome video as usual!
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Had no idea of the horror awaiting me when watching this ep for the first time last year!
Haha when you compare it to what came before it is quite the shock.
Amazing video man, love this episode so much it's so dark but still has a bit of humour in it. God i miss good television (nothing in modern times comes close to peak x files)
I don't watch modern television. It's all about politics and there's zero escapism anymore.
@@JBSpookyReview I'm with you the only new show I watch is criminal minds and the antiques roadshow lol
By far the creepiest episode. When I realized that was the mother, I was like “Whoa… that’s some dark stuff there!”. I wish Neca would make Peacock family figures.
Yeah when it hits you, it really hits you.
I sent a couple of pictures to her talent agency in Canada and she was kind enough to sign them for me.
My favorite part of this episode is the Flintstones-style old timey bashing club that the inbred guy uses to dispatch the sheriff.
Haha I love that you can see it's all clearly hand carved.
Welcome back! We missed you. Glad you are still keeping it Spooky 🎉
Oh I'm not going anywhere don't you worry.
I remember watching this when it came on… it was my introduction to my girlfriend’s parents to the X-Files. Needless to say… dinner after was awkward. 😂
Oh geeze haha, what an introduction.
Thank you, I've been so waiting for more of these.
Sorry for the long wait.
I've never been able to track down this episode on reruns, it has to be one of those you can only see on blu ray
Perfect Timing…Welcome Back 🎉🎉
Thank you so much. I hope you enjoyed the video.
You missed some of the best lines!
Mulder: We’re gonna get you home.
Skully: Mulder, she is home.
and
Creepy Mom: The luuuuv, the pride.
There's always so much I could include, but I do want people watching the show.
@@JBSpookyReview For sure! It was an awesome recap and I’m sure made everyone want to watch it again! 👍🏻
Anytime I hear that “Wonderful Wonderful” song it brings me back to this episode.
It's all I think about.
I love your music choice for the episode. Very fitting.
Haha I had to find something that would feel country for the beginning and just kept it throughout the recap.
Oh, god . . . ! This frightened me for years as a child.
It would be pretty traumatizing for a kid.
This episode is classic X-Files perfection. I was surprised to hear it was “banned” though, personally I didn’t see what the big deal was. (The 90’s were a totally different time though, I’m sure)
The only thing that would’ve made this episode even better is if they’d kept that deleted scene in 😂
Haha I can't believe they even filmed that scene given the context of what they were doing at the time.
@@JBSpookyReviewwhat scene was it
i think about this episode even all these years later lol. The mom under the bed was freaky stuff
Yes we are all really lucky folks to watch your reviews. It had to be that a special review because it was that a special episode for us all back in the day. By the way you can still spot this famous house located at the 13287 Colebrook Road, Surrey, BC 😉
I should go see it before I die lol.
Now that's what I call a sticky situation.
sticky, grimy and gross all around.
I just don't know what to say to this episode. I really don't feel the need to watch it again 😬The balls the producers had, though! 😶 Thanks so much for covering this one 🤗Must supplement your video on one point: Space Above and Beyond was a magnificent show, ahead of its time, and was mismarketed by its cable channel. So Morgan and Wong were able to return with their heads held high 😉
Haha I was just joking around when I said they came back with their tails between their legs, begging for work.
One of my favorite episodes - ever since I was a kid. Have always liked the darker fairytales and such, so this episode was right up my alley. Hate the fact that the main bad got away though. I might like darker stories, but I want to feel satisfied in some way at the end and didn't at the end of this episode. So while I really like this episode, it won't reach the absolute top for me.
Also, love this kind of horror, where most things are just implied but never shown. Because what we can imagine will always be worse than anything they can show us.
I wonder why they had the peacocks get away if they never intended on going back to them, at least in the X-Files anyways.
@@JBSpookyReview
Fully agree. I never understood that choice. It's an "unfinished" plotline.
This episode gave me nightmares as a kid for years.
Haha I can definitely see why.
I got to see it one strange afternoon. I never knew it was BANNED.
Yeah they refused to re-air. Now it wasn't banned from every network. I know here in Canada it would get shown on the Space channel in re-runs, but Fox I guess had advertisers they had to listen to.
@@JBSpookyReview Its airing on network TV is how I ever knew of it actually. FOX I think allowed it on. Was I lucky or non? lolol
Oddly, Maulder and Scully seem at their most beautiful.
The "baby" conversation on the bench always stuck w me. The strange moment for flirting over the poor dead baby was still refreshing.
Also Maulder's baseball obsession makes its first appearance a great theme for Duchovny. "Shut up Scully were playing baseball" Aww!
I think season 4 is there peak personally.
That was one episode I barely managed to watch the first time around back than … I mean, good one… but oh it was gruesome…, thanks for your analisis as always 🌸
I was a weird kid so this was my jam.
No matter the context or situation, I love to see a classic car.
way better than today's cars.
@@JBSpookyReview Indeed!
Can you make a video about the bad blood episode
I'm doing the videos in order and will get to Bad Blood eventually.
My all-time favorite and THE BEST X-FILES episode, ever!!!!
I have to agree with you.
Hilarious! "Sponsored by toothpaste" excellent! Home is my favorite episode! Poor Sheriff Taylor 😢
The Sheriff and his wife didn't deserve what happened to them.
Great stuff. Loads more great episodes to go
Oh yeah we have a bit before things really go sideways.
One of the best episodes
I love it.
Its true " You cant keep a peacock down" lol
Haha apparently not.
I have a 5 month old, babies dying hits different now 😢
I can only imagine how having kids would change the perspective.
This never aired in South America Cable TV, when I found out about it the Internet was the place you logged by making a landline call... this download at 240 x180 or some miniature like that took almost a day and lots of luck that the call didn't hung.. Since there I always knew the in the future I'll talk to a machine and the TV will show what I want. turns out I hate voice recognition on either language (ENG - SPA) so almost made me realize the inevitable things to come. On the other hand and tottaly out of place: Who in his sane mind could ever Imagine what Star Wars has become. As allways love you bro JB.
I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan. I enjoyed the original trilogy growing up, but everything after wasn't for me. But to see where it is now... ouch.
@@JBSpookyReviewthe Satr Wars analogy was just for the bad taste the acolyte just left on me…
I do have a question, given that you've referenced Millennium a few times here. Given that one of the X-files episodes is an merged finale for Millennium, are you planning on doing any Millennium reviews? I never watched the show back in the day but I am admittedly curious.
I've never actually seen Millennium myself either, outside of one single episode. I do have the show on my laptop and do own the DVD's just never got around to it.
What I might do is one long retrospective instead of the individual episode, but that would take a long time to do.
The scariest monsters of the week of ALL TIME: The Lannister Hillbillies.
Hahaha you're not wrong.
This episode scares me to Bejesus and Back so I love it too
It scared me when I first watched it back in the day too.
Damn dude still can't believe kids used to play baseball 😂 seriously that episode was off the rails, it wasn't a X-File it was just crazy time.
I NEVER see kids playing baseball anymore and I live right by a park with a baseball diamond.
Definitely a crazy dark episode that probably did draw heavy inspiration from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes, and that documentary, but would also go on to probably inspire the Wrong Turn franchise as many of the same beats and style is seen throughout it. While I am not a big fan of this style of horror I think the playing of shadows throughout the episode while terrifying helps me get through it as while I can imagine the horror of the sheriff and his wife or the baby, not actually seeing it makes it more digestible than seeing saw the sight of the mother which is still hard to get through because on an instinctive level going all the way back ancient first world civilizations you'd be hard pressed to find one that would let a person still through like that as it really is not way to live, which also adds to the horror of the situation that even ancient man would have found fault with this family.
I can understand this one not being for everyone, but I'm more of a horror guy than anything, so this is right in my wheelhouse.
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Thank you, I was never really going anywhere.
This one was banned? I mean, it's not that hard to believe nowadays but back then? I don't know what to say. Regardless, this one is definitely the best season four episode and up there with my favorite episodes. So powerful, so morbid, so vile and yet a great episode for anyone who has never seen the X-Files to watch. If it's too much, they'll be glad to know that it doesn't ever go this hard. If they love it, well, there's other episodes of this caliber in the series but few that go this dark.
It was really only banned on Fox itself. It was still shown on other channels I believe.
@@JBSpookyReview : Okay, that makes sense because I could've sworn I've seen this on Sci Fi and BBC America before. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss cable. The randomness of it all was really something that I took from granted.
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Thank you so much, I never was going anywhere.
Loved this episode!
It's so good.
hidden video?
No hidden videos?
This episode was so vile! I hate that I enjoyed it as much as I did.
haha it's nasty, but I love it.
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Thank you, I was never going anywhere.
If I remember correctly the directors and producers who made this episode actually got threats about closing the X files serie all together cause parents to families found this episode to damn disturbing.
Oh wow I never heard that before.
R.I.P. DEPUTY BARNEY!
He was a tad too gung ho.
It was aired in Houston TX but ueah ot was weird.
Very weird.
There strangest episode shown
It's pretty out there.
I love this episode in part because it shows how jaded and possibly sociopathic Mulder and Scully are. When the man is caught by the trap and "hyena style" brutalized, Mulder comments like he is watching a discovery channel episode and Scully shows no human emotions whatsoever. That established that these two former humans, Mulder and Scully, are now scientists who feel nothing no matter what horrific things they witness. And I'm okay with that. Sociopaths exist. Humans incapable of feeling any sympathy for other humans exist. And this series is about two of those inhumane humans who care nothing about anyone except possibly each other. It's different from other shows. It might be an X-Files exclusive portrayal of two monsters who have paired up in order to witness and shrug off the worst examples of humanity. Most of the time you see it in the "monster of the week" episodes, but it bleeds into the series as a whole. These are two humans who crack jokes at horrific things, because their motives and personal beliefs are more important than the sufferings of others. It's a very different take. I think the closest any other series has reached is "Bones," where the main character is supposedly so mentally special that she doesn't understand how "normal" humans are supposed to react. The X-Files did it first. They took two likeable characters and had them laugh and make "Babe" jokes minutes after likeable humans died in horrific ways because they don't care about humans, or about any living creatures at all. They're monsters joking at the expense of others. And that's fun to watch and follow because you didn't see that very often back when this series came out.
Frankly, I find it amusing and amazing that people continued to see Mulder and Scully as "good people" after this episode. How many humans would say "Bah Rahm Yuu" to sheep after watching a man be beaten to death? Only a few whose names aren't Mulder and Scully.
They do act a little oddly in this one.
Humbug is just so good.
It’s a tv show! My god people are insane
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@@JBSpookyReview YEAH MAN, DOPE VIDEO!
I’ve always wondered, if they don’t feel pain, why was she screaming while giving birth? Hmmm 🤔
Hey good point. I guess for dramatic purpose.
*Banjo music intensifies*
I wanted to use dueling banjos, but I figured I would get copyright struck.
@@JBSpookyReview then you should have used the dueling farts version from family guy
Love this episode
Me too.
For a long time this was my favorite episode. I still like it a lot, certainly in my Top 20.
I, for one, am grateful that Home Again wasn't a sequel to Home. The X-Files rarely did sequels, and out of those did do, only Tooms is really good. Orison and Kitsunegari are major step downs from Irresistible and Pusher. Given the revival seasons were mostly embarrassing already, the chances of a sequel to Home living up to they hype were slim to none.
Yeah I think you're right, there's no way it would have lived up to our expectations.
JB's back!
Haha I was never really going anywhere.
Man, brilliant doctor but paranormal skeptic Dana Skully looked really hot in this episode.
She looked so good. She's a beautiful woman obviously, but sometimes she just looks extra gorgeous.
I think I've only seen this ep 2-3 twice. I think the first time I saw it... my brain didn't register a lot of it. I don't quite think I "got" the thing with the mother. (My brain is kind to me that way.) So I wasn't as freaked out about it as I had heard over and over that I would be. It's only been through the years as I've watched reviews / commentary that it has sunk in more and freaked me out more.
Wait... why did they keep her under the bed like that?
I'd never heard that Charlie Chaplin story. Nor did I know that was not the Johnny Mathis version of Wonderful, Wonderful!
I am hoping my brain will once again erase this ep from my mind. Along with the later "revivals." UGH!
I'm not looking forward to the later seasons honestly, but I guess I can make fun of them lol.
@@JBSpookyReview I guess I'm in the minority, but I liked some of the eps in Seasons 8-9. I liked Doggett & Reyes as characters. (And Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish as actors. I think they were treated so poorly by fans.)
But it really was an entirely different show at that point. The revivals or whatever they were called that happened after Season 9 were godawful. Truly.
I hate when critics say low budget , budget has nothing to do with quality entertainment. Do your homework. Like I said before its about the skills not money and you agreed but still you say low budget for some riduculous reasons.
I never said budget had anything to do with quality.
Honestly scully and mulder got the cops and wife killed lmfao you think they’d feel bad about it
It really was all of their fault. If Mulder and Scully never showed up nothing would have happened.
@@JBSpookyReviewnot even showed up just going into their house without a warrant / talking about it in the house and going without backup
I'M HUNGREY.......
I love the way she says it.
He crawled into a trunk and did mommy. He said I luv ya ...ma
Uh yeah all he did was tell her he loved her...
I remember when Millennium premiered. It sounded like subject matter i would like, and i likes X Files, and i like Lance Henriksen. but after that first episode, i was disappointed
I've only seen a couple episodes, but I'll probably cover it at some point.
Ahh..
Haha hope you enjoyed it!
Woohoo! Y'a'int dead. Great start. Every day I wake up not dead is a good day to do some being alive in.
Home, eh? yeah. This is on my skipisode list, but, not because it's bad, not at all, because it's creepy. Also, there's no supernatural element so.
"We're Federal Agents, we're here to help you!" No wonder she's screaming in fear…
And yes, yes, I was about to say exactly that, taking a baseball bat full on across the chest is going to break some bones, and that stops things from working even if you cannot feel pain, so, yeah, a nine millimeter doing mach one through the same area, that's not something to shrug off.
I think maybe the plan was for their to be a Home 2, but, I mean I'm already not buying their isolation - you are not going to get me to believe you can make plaid cotton with zero industry - they HAVE to be getting some of their stuff from town. How in the hell is that car running if it doesn't get the occasional mechanical and at the very least, oil and fuel. So, them running, well, shuffling and rolling, off to a new place to set up home? How are they going to buy a new house? I mean, if nothing else they've got to be the most obvious wanted list suspects in the entire world, mutant boy and the human skateboard? How is that going to be missed? And yeah, they'd be on a wanted list, setting up traps in your own home is quasi legal at the best of times but doing so and having one of them bisect a family member, that is not going to be legal.
I mentioned that thing about the accidental circuses…
So, anyway, we were doing pre-production on a music video…
This one… ruclips.net/video/FkF_XpA5P48/видео.html
I'm in it, but I'll not say where.
Anyhoo, we really, really wanted a circus as part of the whole background and went on a bender phoning round every travelling circus in the Semi-United Kingdom asking how they'd feel about coming down to Sussex to do a day's gig for no money but being prominently in a music video. Everyone told us to fudge cough, as well they should. Well, except for one, who thought it was a spiffy idea and they already liked the Professor, so, we told 'em they'd need to be set up for start of shooting which was inked in for ten in the aim. Had to be gone by seven peem because we'd sort of stolen the field in which we were shooting and their night security turned up at eight. In addition, every single steam-punk, goth, wierdo, street performer and generalised oddball had got their invitation to be a part of the crowd, and so, it's freezing, seven am, we're in a field trying to be quiet as the strangest fleet of discombobulated whack-a-doodles started turning up, expecting to be fed and watered, which we'd told them would be possible. Around nine the circus turns up and we're very happy, point them to their area, and let them have at it whilst we were working things out with the gorilla wrangler and the gorilla, who we'd worked with before, so, we'd almost remembered that she was actually a lady in a gorilla suit and needed things like, being talked to and let out of the suit from time to time because…
Well, anyway, the circus got set up in less than an hour, but several of the waifs had brought portable stalls and things and they weren't set up, so, we're hip deep in getting all this lobstock set up, including a few arguments with a woman who didn't seem to understand that of the two things - filming a music video and her putting up her second hand clothing shop, the video was the important one, our runner, Cherry, having fallen in love with the pretty weasel wrangler who did the floaty balls thing, so, he stopped doing his job, and the choreographer struggling to get people to pay attention to the simple dance routine she'd worked out, and we're an hour late but that's kinda normal so, we're not stressing too much and then the circus turned up.
No, the OTHER circus.
See, we'd got one circus to agree to come down and all the others said no, except one of them had said no in such a way as we thought they were being just a bit sarcastic, along the lines of…
"Lemme get this straight, you want me to pack up my entire travelling top, and a bunch of the performers, drive down to Sussex, which is two hundred miles away, set everything up, do stunts for your camera and we're not going to be paid, right?"
So we took that as a no. Found out as his truck lumbered up the road that he was a very literal minded chap and if we'd just replied with 'Yes' he'd have just said 'OK'.
So, we can't exactly tell him to sod off, so, we have an ad hoc replan and get them to set up on the eastern end of the fete as we started filming on the western end and planned to get to them as they got ready.
We're in a total frenzy at this point, herding cats on a grand scale, but we're getting there, my little role gets thrown out because I'm having to do Cherry's job now, which is legging it at speed between various elements, but, Moog's getting things done and then our villain turns up on a unicycle, soaked with sweat because he thought Worthing was basically next door to Brighton, where he'd got the train to, so he'd done three hours of unicycling more or less uphill to get there several hours late, but, we were able to get him into a costume, and get the shots needed.
Long day.
Nice try, but I know that was you in the Gorilla suit.
@@JBSpookyReview Heh. Her name is Linda, IIRC, and, to do the gorilla walk she wears these hand extender things, so, there's no way for her to remove her mask on her own. Thing is, she's so good at being a gorilla everyone forgets it's actually a nice lady in there so, there was more than one time we all had tea except we forgot the Gorilla. Mad thing, but, you know, a life of strange is a good life.
And no, I was the one in the hat. ;-)
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ALL HAIL REYNARD MULDRAKE!
The best there is.
Welcome hodalleeome neighboreeno
Haha shut up Flanders.
Yeah this episode was wild. Still enjoyable af tho.
Yeah home again click bait me too 😭
My favorite episode is "Orison" season 7 ep 7. Only ep I had to rewatch right after watching
Orison is a pretty good episode especially for a season that has some real stinkers.
I can't wait for you to get the season 10's Babylon. Worst episode ever!!!
Oh no, for me it's season 7's fight club. Whoever thought to add not one, but two kathy griffins should have been fired.
@@JBSpookyReviewshe is the absolute worst
This one is for the whole family. Not.
The kiddies love this one.
@@JBSpookyReview Ha ha! I apologized to my daughter last night for subjecting her to the X-Files when she was growing up. She said it made her scared, but she’s forgiven me. She’s one tough cookie.
Sorry but I can't stand people who purposefully don't lock their doors. Like it takes one second and you have nothing to lose doing it. What are you trying to prove with unlocked doors? Lock your doors! *end rant*
I can't sleep with my doors unlocked.
Lol forgot the Babe movie reference. Worst/ /Best episode.
babe must have been popular at that time.
As much as I like Morgan & Wong episodes, this one is a bit too nasty even for me.
I love it, but I totally understand why you wouldn't and I don't blame you.
Soreey
For?
@@JBSpookyReview just poking fun at your accent.
Oh haha that's fine I make fun of it myself.
Oh I thought this was the worst episode ever lmao
Haha I don't blame you in the slightest for feeling that way.
@JBSpookyReview it actually blows my mind when I dislike something greatly and I see someone else love it, in an odd way it makes me see new value in it that a variety of opinions can come from something. Great vid btw
That's why I love this show, it has a little bit for everyone.
my main question is why they chose this episode to start establishing scullys potential want to be a mother. the whole conversation between her and mrs peacock seemed so on the head, like she was giving her that typical "youre not fulfilling your womanly duties and you'll only understand once youre a mother" guilt, which seemed to have a legit effect on her. Ive only seen up until this episode, but i know that eventually she does have a kid, but it just seems like scully wouldnt value motherhood for herself, like she would not find satisfaction in it. i suppose that is just my interpretation of her character, and im sure a lot of it is projection, but still my main question stands. why this episode?? the one with incest?? like why not choose a scully-centric episode, like maybe in a scene that has something to do with her own mother. it just seems like a weird place to establish this
I'm assuming it's just more growth for the character and maybe setting up what is to come.
Just missing a Trump flag outside the Peacock house
Ouch.
The best thing about your channel doesn't exist.
what's that?
This was definitely one of my faves of the entire series. Worth waiting for this review! The only thing is now I'm not sure which X-files prop I'd rather have more, Mr Stabby or a pen light? 🤔
I would rather have Mr Stabby haha.
@@JBSpookyReview same lol