I wasn’t sure I could write about it at all, or whether it. My Dad died last April, which means that my reading of this episode is going to be very personal. Okay, fair warning: this episode hit me very hard. "Home Again" is memorable episode with potential of a classic episode it ends up being a bit less than that - and hopefully it will grow with time, just like "Closure" did - but even if it never reach the classic status of its counterpart "One Breath", it would be for a noble reason: it tried too much at the same time. Season 10, Episode 4: Home Again Written by Glen Morgan, Directed by Glen Morgan First Aired: February 8, 2016.
This season is heavily influenced by the arcs of the first 4 seasons (when James, Glen and Darin were still at the show) and the William arc in the end of the original run. Still, in the end they somehow relate both ideas, the whole episode has excellent commentary on both homeless people and motherhood and maybe the best thing in this revival, it's so faithful and delicade in showing the passage of time for Mulder and Scully. They still work well, but in other context, in a 24 episode season, they could have been 2 different episodes or even a 2 part one.
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The case is violent, dark and very, very scary, something X-Files wasn't since it left Vancouver and now it's scary as hell for the second time in 4 episodes (the other scary one was Founder's Mutation) The only problem is that in the end they are trying too much at the same time and it feels that both the drama part and the monster part end without reaching its full potential. The thing is, this is a dramatic mythology episode like One Breathe, but at the same time it has a creepy monster-of-the-week case, which works well too. Gillian Anderson suffering in hospitals is always something incredibly beautiful and tragic to watch in the X-Files (remember Memento Mori? Emily?) and she does another great job here - "Were-Monster" was a Mulder episode, this is hers. This is in many ways related to that episode (it even has flashbacks from it), but in a new perspective and with a different ending - even that lake is a reference. Once you get past this isn't "Home 2", you can directly compare to another episode wrote by Glen Morgan: "One Breath", from season 2.
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It's named "Home Again" because of Glen Morgan's supersticion: "Home" was his comeback to the X-Files after a season off making "Space Above And Beyond" now "Home Again" is his second comeback as a writer to the series after leaving in the end of season 4 to showrun with his partner James Wong the season 2 of Millennium.
But as Glen Morgan said in the interviews, it's unrelated. The title created lots of expectations in the fanbase - Home is the most controversial episode the show ever made and it's very loved by the fans. Even the themes are different - though both touches on maternity issues. First thing we need to clarify is: this isn't a sequel to Home.
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