Oubliette by Sarah Stegall Copyright ©1995 by Sarah Stegall Written by Charles Grant Craig Directed by Kim Manners This review very nearly didn’t get written. It took me several tries to get all the way through “Oubliette”. As the mother of two small daughters, who received their school pictures in the mail this week, who lives in the county where Richard Wade Davis will shortly go on trial for kidnapping a young girl out of her bedroom two years ago and leaving her body in a shallow roadside grave, this episode was nearly impossible for me to watch. It struck…
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The X-Files: “D.P.O.”
Lightning Dolt by Sarah Stegall copyright ©1995 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Howard Gordon Director: KimManners What happens when a total loser acquires supernatural powers and harnesses the lightning itself? We get “Beavis and Butthead meet ‘The X-Files’”. Friday night’s episode, “D.P.O.”, gave us a much needed breather after the hectic pace of the “Anasazi” trilogy, with a solid performance from Giovanni Ribisi married to a minimalist X-File plot. But before I get into the review, I must admit that I suffered from split personality watching the episode. I was distracted from the plot because I kept focusing too much on…