Revisiting The X-Files: In 2020, It Is More Relevant than Ever

Kait O'Brien
10 min readSep 10, 2020
Ed Araquel/Fox

If you are reading this, you probably love The X-Files as much as I do. It deftly veers between camp and devastating drama, genre satire and truly bone-chilling horror. There are moments that take the mundane acts of life, such as changing a lightbulb in Darkness Falls, into mesmerizingly suspenseful heights. It explores the interior, the backwater, of Americana with sensitivity and…

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Kait O'Brien

Kait is a writer, artist, and explorer of ideas based out of Albuquerque, NM. She holds a BA in Psychology from City College in New York.