Plus: The return of the Entertainment Geekly podcast!
Still, its hard to imagine a show likeThe X-Filesever running 200 episodes again.
This is because it has never been easy to define what kind of showX-Fileswas to begin with.

Credit: Fox
But those binary definitions dont really capture the full sweep of the show.
In its prime and past it,The X-Filescould tell almost any kind of story.
Because of its long run, there are whole subgenres ofX-Filesepisodes.
An episode like The Host is remembered now for the pure goopy horror of the monstrous Fluke Man.
So its uniquely challenging and fun!
to come up with your list of the essentialX-Filesepisodes.
We also talk about the new season.
(ReadJeffs recap hereandmy review here.)
Listen to the full podcast below it will be on iTunes shortly!