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EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
The X-Files - Season 11 Episode 08: Familiar
In the season premiere, Mulder and Scully learn they aren't the only ones desperately searching for their long-lost son, William; the fate of the world may ride on the outcome.
5 April 1961, New Brunswick, Canada
3 March 1961, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, USA
3 January 1981, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
24 November 1959, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
28 March 1966, Montréal, Québec, Canada
20 February 1964, Newport Beach, California, USA
12 September 1963, Caguas, Puerto Rico
11 April 1959, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
4 December 1954, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
7 May 1922, Spokane, Washington, USA
29 July 1965, Oak Bank, Manitoba, Canada
2 February 1970, Galt, Ontario, Canada
4 August 1944, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
7 December 1971, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, USA
26 October 1965, Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
March 08, 2018
There's something refreshing about how standalone this episode is - after so many episodes that doubled as commentary on The X-Files, here this season relaxes into the sort of unselfconscious story that made up the bulk of the show.
March 08, 2018
"Familiar" is a well-directed and performed X-Files episode, but it ultimately falls into a few too many screenwriting traps to ignore.
March 08, 2018
Actively, this is short-sighted, spotty-ass writing, beholden to high-concept ideas without the intelligence or imagination to give them weight, to anchor all the weirdness in anything but grim, typically grotesque bloodshed.
March 08, 2018
I kind of liked it? I mean, there's more to criticize, and we'll get to that, but up until the last five minutes or so, I enjoyed "Familiar," in no small part thanks to the predictable but deeply creepy set-pieces.
March 08, 2018
OK so it wasn't the cleanest path to the truth, but it was at times a gripping, if not campy, journey to get there. The episode did have some genuinely scary and disturbing moments.
March 08, 2018
In a perfect world there might be at least one or two more episodes like "Familiar" in the mix. But as always with The X-Files, we take what we get, and are more often than not grateful we're getting it at all.
March 08, 2018
"Familiar" works in a way no other "serious" episodes have lately. There's no incoherent William drama, no awkward struggle to incorporate fan-service cameos.