![]() The aliens’ character design remains generic. Six episodes in, Invasion still hasn’t revealed enough about what the hell is actually happening, and y’all, my patience! On all fronts! Is being tested! It generates tension between characters we already know, trust, and like, and it leads us into the labyrinth of whom to trust and whom to suspect. It makes plain what will happen if Mulder and Scully don’t stop this thing from getting out into the rest of the world. “Ice” makes the stakes clear about who, or what, is presenting a threat. I cite The X-Files season-one episode “Ice” specifically because it accomplishes numerous things Invasion’s sixth episode, “Home Invasion” - a tiring bottle episode that somehow feels laborious despite a half-hour running time - does not. ![]() ![]() Shout-out to the best TV bottle episodes: Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine waiting on their Chinese-restaurant reservation Peggy and Don arguing about what the money is for Mulder and Scully stuck in Alaska with an alien parasite intent on takeover. ![]()
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