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The X-Files: “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space”

Six Degrees of Separation by Sarah Stegall copyright ©1995 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Darin Morgan Director: Rob Bowman “Weirdness!” — Frohike Someone please come take Darin Morgan gently by the hand and lead him away from “The X-Files”… …to his very own series. This man deserves a forum of his own. “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” is perhaps the last X-Files script we will get from Morgan, and if so, he’s going out with a bang. His twisted wit, his involuted sense of reality, and his razor-sharp perception are unparalleled not just in “The X-Files”, but in television writing in…

The X-Files: “The Walk”

Walking Wounded by Sarah Stegall Copyright ©1995 by Sarah Stegall “The Walk” Writer: John Shiban Director: Rob Bowman This one had “five stars” written all over it by the middle of Act One, and I’m not referring to the General’s stars. Once again “The X-Files” does what it does best–take people on the edge of our world and drag them before our noses, focrcing us to look at them with compassion and dread inextricably mixed. In this case, “The Walk”, by John Shiban presenting his first X-Files script, gets up close and personal with the anguish and pain of disabled…