What shows replicate this kino experience?

They botched the arc in the sense that it didn't make sense given what we'd been told previously.
It still succeeded at being an emotional climax.
No. X Files is one of a kind. Groundbreaking cinematography for tv coupled with scripts covering a variety of themes in unique ways, along with iconic leads and loveable side characters on top.
Hasn't been beaten since, and there's no sign anything will change.

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wooo wee woo wooo weee woooo
weee wooo wooo woo wee woooo

why was scully's sister so dumb

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Being married

>woman, i'm saying this thing is happening
>this thing is not going to happen
>thing happens
>we just imagined that thing happened. it never happened

kino post

She's the hottest character on the show though.
Wish they kept with the plan to make her a romantic interest of Mulder.

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that would have been cool but fans would have rioted back then seeing as they wanted scully and mulder together so much

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nothing because if you actually watch it back its not as good as you remember
theres loads of shows like it that were as good but you wont think they are

First 2 seasons of Supernatural

Lies.
The X Files was well ahead of any other tv show at the time.
The cinematography was perfect, simply put. It isn't as impressive as say Mr Robot's, but it made the atmosphere incredibly palpable. The blue effect that was created for some scenes still looks gorgeous.
The camera work was also the best around. Twin Peaks, a very innovative and inspiring show, still used 'multi-cam' stationary shots for the majority of its run time. The X Files came out only a few years later, but it looks like more than a decade has passed - the way the camera regularly moves with the characters gives it such a dynamic feeling. That seems to have been the aim of the 'noir-style', as I've read that was episode of The X Files was produced "like a one-hour movie." That's something tv shows to this very day still strive for.
And this is all without mentioning some of the feats The X Files achieved. There was nothing like Duane Barry (Carter's directorial debut, making it even more impressive) and Triangle (which has only recently been bested, and rarely matched) on tv.
The X Files truly was innovative. Saying it looks outdated really does it a disservice in my opinion. I've been rewatching it on Amazon Prime and I just keep thinking "this looks beautiful, I can't believe it's a 90s tv show."
The stellar score and writing elevates it to the best tv show ever.

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LMAO re-watching it right now
its literally just as good as i remember with some monster of the week duds

THE OUTER LIMITS

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Only watch up to season 5 for mytharc stuff. After that there’s plenty of good MotW ones.

was Mulder really masturbating to footage of Bigfoot?

>the twists and constant build up weren't kino
What a pleb. People have made extensive timelines of the series for people like you

Yeah but the writers have readily admitted the mytharc sputtered out and they mostly preferred writing standalone episodes.

Can you blame him?
youtu.be/vdD_mnnfEBM

what the hell is this? a show where the two main characters are white?!?!

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Doesn’t really apply. Most modern hit network series feature predominantly white casts. Things haven’t changed as drastically as /poltv/ narratives would have you believe.

Fuck off

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>The x-files ended with the first movie, as far as I'm concerned.

This. There were some good episodes in the LA era, but the aesthetic just wasn't the same after they moved out of the PNW.

x files? more like the kino files

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top 3 episodes
1.quagmire
2.goofy vampires one
3. high school teacher witches

fuck UFOs

Middle of season 9 is where I stopped. It was so garbage I couldn’t take it anymore. I want to finish it though and see 10 and 11 as well as the 2008 movie.

Post Modern Prometheus, The Unnatural and Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose are all top 10 for sure.

HOME

People always give me shit for preferring happy endings, but I blame the 90's Outer Limits for giving me such a hate boner for the downer ones. And the episodes I saw weren't even among the worst that show had to offer.

>fuck UFOs
The mytholofy episodes, especially early on, are outstanding user.
Season 10 is pretty bad, but definitrly try season 11. Some of the MOTW is brilliant (pic related is one of my favourites of the whole show) - it's bad reputation comes from the disasterous mythology, S11E01 in particular.

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Fuckin plebian incel go fuck yourself kiddo. Re-watched few weeks ago and it's fuckin glorious. Way ahead of its time. Still holds up really well.

>She's abducted
>No wait she's back
>No wait she's a clone
>No wait she's on a bee farm
>No wait that's another clone
>No wait she's with CSM
>No wait that's a clone too
>No wait she's REALLY with CSM
>No wait she's starlight in the night sky
Really makes you think

>IT'S WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL

is this one of the few show where the main cast fails to accomplish anything important?

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PNW is based. It's what gave the X-Files its comfiness, I agree.

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X-files only works because the population didn't have 4K Smartphones everywhere.

There was no livestreaming, facebook, twitter, youtube, etc

Reminder:

>"I'm a great consumer of Wong Kar Wai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Arnaud Desplechin, and David Lynch, but above all I hope there's something of the influence [in Private Fears in Public Places] of Kim Manners. He directed some 50 episodes of The X Files, and the virtuosity of his shot-breakdown technique and of his mise-en-scene, and the way in which he treated actors' performances, all of it impressed me. He's the best of the best. I'm not an expert in television series, but in Millennium, The Shield, The Sopranos, 24, and others, I find the cinematic syntax more rich and inventive than in the majority of cinema."
--Alain Resnais, in the November 2006 Positif

This is why the French are a joke to people

there's that feel you get when watching the first few seasons that no other show on television has replicated for me...
Maybe it was the 90s aesthetic? The fear of the unknown? who knows

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Same for Supernatural. So glad they stayed in Vancouver for the whole run.

>youtube.com/watch?v=YEnJ4GZ1RHo
kino music too

so the show is from the 50s huh

Based.
Kim Manners complemented Carter's vision perfrctly. The X Files was truly cinematic, to a level that many shows struggle to match today.

Truth. The first few seasons serve as an interesting time capsule for the early days of the internet and the paranoia surrounding the future.

The music and atmosphere is what made it great. It has a very noir style. Long camera shots. Dark lighting. Dutch angles.

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>Even X-Files S10/11 couldn't replicate its old self.
While true on the whole you're not doing it justice: s10e03 Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster and s11e08 Familiar do replicate the kino experience and are stand alone episodes.

Would recommend both.

>hit
Way to move the goalpost /leftypol/

>cardiacs
based

Stranger Things

How so? The X-Files was a hit network show as well. It’s a fair comparison.

Meant for

Why was Scully such a skeptic bitch even when shit happened literally every goddamn episode?

"Mulder you're delusional there are no such thing as aliens"
"We had several encounters with aliens already!"
"no they're brits. aliens are not real. stop playing around Mulder."

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Fear. She was too scared to accept the truth.

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I honestly think they should have ditched David Duchovny rather than move to LA, and evolved Scully's character into the believer, trying to convince a new partner of The Truth. Firstly, it would have made a lot more sense. Secondly, it would have been a way to keep the show going for years.

>(pic related is one of my favourites of the whole show)
based
>it's bad reputation comes from the disasterous mythology, S11E01 in particular.
Wasn't it more like the first two + the finale. The episode that just had Brian Huskey do his People of Earth (god I wish they hadn't canceled that) shtick but less, would have been good were it not for the existence of that show and the tiresome trump whining but as it was ended up being disappointing as well. Oh and let's not forget the forced insertion of Mulder and Scully junior.

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Based. BCJ leaves it's touch everywhere:

Manners left his directing job at Stephen J. Cannell Productions in 1993 to work on the television series The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. He directed 7 of the series' 27 episodes, more than any other director for the show. He joked that he was the series' "mascot director". He was happy with the work for the series, and felt that it "stretched" him creatively. He said, "It really woke me up as a director, almost spiritually…" and that directing for Brisco was a large contributing factor to his later success as a regular director on The X-Files.

Who cares
Scully canonically masturbates too

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>How so? The X-Files was a hit network show as well. It’s a fair comparison.
Because you're subverting his question by adding a new qualifier into the mix and are thus ignoring a huge part of the total shows produced.

One needs but listen to an episode of Nerdist's "the writers room" to know that forced diversity is a very real thing. (Does that podcast even exist anymore?)

>a show where the two main characters are white?!?!
>Most modern hit network series feature predominantly white casts.

>the cum files

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is this real

It sure is. S11E07.
Scully's got great taste in "personal massagers" too.

>50 years old

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S01E03 was a very good revival of an old fashioned Silly Episode.

kino

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Wasn't it super soldiers (???) in the end

I do not care at all desu, I'd let Scully do unholy things to me.

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I even had a crossover episode with this show.

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Dark > Stranger things.

Season 2 of Stranger Things was horrendous and aren't the Duffy Brothers currently being sued for plagiarism in regard to season 1?

Tried to get into this but couldn't. For some reason I did like Harsh Realm though..

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Dark was so fucking bad. Nobody's motivations made any sense, and the police detective main character seemed to have been originally written as a mere civilian aggrieved father because he drew on his police powers precisely zero times.

>episodes about aliens and conspiracies are top notch with great acting, atmosphere etc.
>"religious" episodes feel like something out of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
What happened

Let me guess, you're a murican who watched the dubbed version. Yeah I'd think it were terrible too then.

>implying Die Hand Die Verletzt wasn't kino

I watched the German version. Subtitles don't change trash characters.

>>"religious" episodes feel like something out of Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Makes perfect sense to be honest, that's exactly were religion fits in: fantasy.

This show is about aliens planning an invasion of Earth and was created by Larry Cohen.

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>Subtitles don't change trash characters.
Which motivation did not make sense then? I would immediately agree with you if you said they went with too much characters to give off a false impression of being a complex/smart show or if you were to critique the ending but I honestly wouldn't know what characters you're referring to now.

>scully stop jiggling your boobs all over i'm trying to masturbate to this ufo pic

Well if we're recommending alien invasion shows..

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unfortunately fpbp sorry op

Bra technology has sadly come a long way

>tfw you haven't watched this since you were a kid
>tfw you didn't even watch all of the episodes
>tfw you look for some torrents
>tfw all have 0 seeds or fewer

How the fuck do you zoomers torrent things these days?

You must be pretty bad at torrenting user

Never mind that, help me out, dawg.

I started watching this show when it debuted on Fox in '93 at the age of 11 and I can fully pin my redhead lust on Gillian Anderson.

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>drinking wine
>aged like wine

pottery.

Agreed user; it became far too predictable and forgone to be enjoyable. At least with the Twilight Zone there was the possibility of a happy ending here and there

I vaguely recall some kind of ripoff of the x files that Dan akroyd had ties to.

imagine the smell

There are other 90s TV shows with that distinctive early-to-mid 90s comfy kino feel, but none of them (except maybe Twin Peaks) bring on ose overwhelming waves of nostalgia like X-Files. Everything about it fell right into place. The premise and various plots, full of the unknown, conspiracies and things that shouldn't exist. The characters were compelling and the cast was top notch. The PNW filming locations provided the perfect overcast setting for a show dealing with the subject matter that it did -- the omnipresent grey clouds gave the impression that even they had something to hide. The cinematography was kino and Mark Snow's score always captured that feeling of spookiness and dread. Everything was perfect.

And then Duchovny went and fucked it up be becoming a diva and forcing them to relocate to LA to shoot. Good job, dickhead.

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The X-Files was a network series so I’m comparing it to modern network series. Supernatural is the spiritual successor to The X-Files and that show has had white male leads for going on 15 years now.

>The X-Files was a network series so I’m comparing it to modern network series
No you're comparing it to HIT network series, this you explicitly state. And now you're comparing it to a series that started >10 years ago, (quite likely intentionally) missing the point of the user you responded to originally even more.

So what do you want me to compare it to? Zoomer shows on Netflix or Hulu that fit your “SJWs are ruining everything” narrative?

To be honest I can't remember well. My impression was that the show was a lot stupider than I had been led to believe. I was particularly pissed off with the way the police detective character was handled. He was running around screaming at the gates of the nuke plant and doing everything himself. He didn't seem to be a cop at all. He was written as a generic outsider "driven father" character when it didn't make sense. It's coming back to me now a bit. Wasn't there a thing about the city bigshots trying to cover everything up to promote tourism? That seemed all very fake. Nothing seemed real.

what a woman.

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Didn’t list ‘Harsh Realm’

The main characters on ‘Fringe’ were white.
There were just also a light skinned and a dark skinned African American characters in the main cast as well.

>So what do you want me to compare it to? Zoomer shows on Netflix or Hulu that fit your “SJWs are ruining everything” narrative?

Did you even read? Are you just trolling?

>Because you're subverting his question by adding a new qualifier into the mix and are thus ignoring a huge part of the total shows produced.