Trust No One by Sarah Stegall copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall “Trust no one….” —Deep Throat Writer: Chris Carter Director: R. W. Goodwin At last we have Chris Carter’s personal philosophy spelled out for us literally in the tagline: it’s a cold world out there, one where enemies wear a friendly face and even a friend can be suspect. “The Erlenmeyer Flask” opens with a car chase straight out of “Bullitt”, follows with police beating a suspect a la Rodney King (complete with ineffective taser shot), and includes such ripped-from-the-headlines story elements as the Human Genome project, and toxic blood…
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The X-Files: “Darkness Falls”
The Light in the Forest by Sarah Stegall Copyright ©1993 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Chris Carter Director: Joe Napolitano “Darkness Falls”, the episode of “The X-Files” re-run on Friday night, is not one of the show’s more popular episodes: it fell into about the middle third of the end-of-season poll of X-Philes’ preferences. However, it has several points to recommend it, and remains one of my favorites for various reasons. The best characters in this episode were non-human: the magnificent woods of British Columbia and the tiny insects responsible for the deaths of the loggers. The sequences in the woods…