Don’t Boggart That Cop by Sarah Stegall Copyright 2000 by Sarah Stegall. All rights reserved. “So, the first question we must ask ourselves is, what is a boggart?” Hermione put up her hand. “It’s a shape-shifter,” she said. “It can take the shape of whatever it thinks will frighten us most.” —Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban, by J. K. Rowling The first question we must ask ourselves about “X-Cops”, Vince Gilligan’s latest laugh-fest for “The X-Files”, is why didn’t someone think of this earlier? The marriage of the Fox Network’s ground-breaking “reality” show, “Cops”, and its first mainstream…
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The X-Files: “The 6th Extinction”
Extinction or Extermination? by Sarah Stegall Copyright 1999 by Sarah Stegall. All rights reserved. “I’m dying, you idiot.” — Fox Mulder to the Cigarette-Smoking Man “Biogenesis” written by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz, directed by Rob Bowman. “The Sixth Extinction” written by Chris Carter, directed by Kim Manners. “The Sixth Extinction: Amor Fati” written by David Duchovny and Chris Carter, directed by Michael Watkins. Something really is in danger of dying on The X-Files, and it’s not just Fox Mulder. The last episode of the sixth season of The X-Files (“Biogenesis”) started with the most visually stunning opening sequence I…