X-Files Episode III
So I watched the critically acclaimed third ep of X.
From the first word uttered by the stoners in the woods, it was clear this was going to be fun, albeit not at all like an actual X-Files episode.
More a spoof. It's like what Saturday Night Live might choose to do with the show if they had an hour to kill.
Sheer genius, though, to bring in Rhys Darby as the "monster". Don't know if any of you are familiar with his work in Flight of the Conchords,, but he is a comic genius. His glorious New Zealand accent alone cracks me up. The man couldn't play it straight if his life depended on it.
Rhys is now, I fear, in danger of being typecast in creature roles, having previously played a very amusing and marginally deadly werewolf in the movie, What We Do In The Shadows.
Very clever the way this episode had Mulder so whimsically doubting himself, while confronting a monster in reverse - a strange forest creature awakened after 10,000 years to find himself miraculously morphing into, of all things, a human - a change he found truly monstrous.
Big tick, then, to the third episode. But a self-deprecating piss-take is still not going to bring me back next week, eager for more.
I guess I'm just too hard to please.
From the first word uttered by the stoners in the woods, it was clear this was going to be fun, albeit not at all like an actual X-Files episode.
More a spoof. It's like what Saturday Night Live might choose to do with the show if they had an hour to kill.
Sheer genius, though, to bring in Rhys Darby as the "monster". Don't know if any of you are familiar with his work in Flight of the Conchords,, but he is a comic genius. His glorious New Zealand accent alone cracks me up. The man couldn't play it straight if his life depended on it.
Rhys is now, I fear, in danger of being typecast in creature roles, having previously played a very amusing and marginally deadly werewolf in the movie, What We Do In The Shadows.
Very clever the way this episode had Mulder so whimsically doubting himself, while confronting a monster in reverse - a strange forest creature awakened after 10,000 years to find himself miraculously morphing into, of all things, a human - a change he found truly monstrous.
Big tick, then, to the third episode. But a self-deprecating piss-take is still not going to bring me back next week, eager for more.
I guess I'm just too hard to please.
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