The episode is tone deaf in a memorable what-the-hell-were-they-thinking sort of way.
“Home Again” pivots on two narratives, one of which is promising and occasionally quite chilling.
Duchovny has some wonderful moments in the prior episodes of the season, but this is the first time this season that he’s really come to play.
Mulder and Scully’s disregard for protocol is one of the more interesting, partially inadvertent frictions of bringing The X-Files into the present.
The episode’s most obvious sign of desperation is its reliance on slide shows to orient viewers.
If you eliminate almost all of the sci-fi elements, you’re left with The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
We are racing toward an apocalypse of our own creation. This is who we are.
Ignore Fox Mulder’s mantra: You can trust The Lone Gunmen.
“It’s just a game.” A game worth owning.
I prophesy: You will buy Millennium: Season One. You can’t stop it.