Scully Nation: An X Files Rewatch Podcast
Join fresh-faced recruit Amanda and weathered, long-suffering fan Ella as we head back to the 90s to reopen the TV show The X-Files! Every week we discuss one episode in chronological order as we rediscover the thrills, chills, and spills of Mulder and Scully's investigations into the paranormal. Hop aboard our flying saucer! New episodes released every Tuesday.
Episodes
239 episodes
(BONUS #13) Revival of the Fittest: The Seasons 10 and 11 Wrap Battle
This week we are taking a look back at seasons 10 and 11 (whether we want to or not) for our revival series wrap-up episode! We rank the episodes, read some emails, and cast our own reboot series. We’re talking the surprising relevance of War o...
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Season 11
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Episode 11
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2:15:06
S11 E10: "I'm Struggling For 4 Right Now"
This week we are talking about the X-Files series finale as we jump into “My Struggle IV”! We’re talking half-good half-evil William, how impotent the threat to shut down the X-Files is by now, Mulder massacring a bunch of people, when it’s app...
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Season 11
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Episode 10
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2:14:35
S11 E9: "Nothing Lasts 5Ever (In Da Bronx)"
This week we are tracking down our sister in her organ-licking cult while we discuss “Nothing Lasts Forever”! We’re talking how much we don’t care for Juliet and her discount-Daredevil energy, how we want more of the random mountainous Swedish ...
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Season 11
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Episode 9
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1:26:00
S11 E8: "My Other Witch's Familiar Is A Porsche"
This week we are conjuring up terrifying children’s cartoon creatures while we discuss “Familiar”! We’re talking how off-putting these Bibbletiggles are, the single cop and his romantic endeavors in town, Tim Burton children running all over th...
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Season 11
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Episode 8
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1:24:26
S11 E7: "Rm 9'cha Glad I Tipped?"
This week we are on the run from murderous robotic sushi chefs while we discuss “Rm9sbG93ZXJz”! We’re talking unappetizing blob fish dinners, how it’s fair turnaround for Scully to be trapped in a car with a speeding driver, whether this can be...
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Season 11
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Episode 7
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1:24:10
S11 E6: "Not Now, Kitten, Daddy Is Confronting His Demons"
This week we are going AWOL and hunting down our old Vietnam buddies while we discuss “Kitten”! We’re talking how they really could have come up with a cooler evil-project name than MK NAOMI, that Kersh is back: meaner and balder than ever, how...
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Season 11
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Episode 6
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1:44:58
S11 E5: "Mr. Ghouli, Tear Down This Reality"
This week we are tracking down our long-lost son while we discuss “Ghouli”! We’re talking Detective Saw, Ghouli fanfiction, the continuing Ford car commercial, birthday boys, and Mulder and Scully’s son surprisingly being a bit of a player. We ...
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Season 11
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Episode 5
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1:32:59
S11 E4: "That's Not How I Remember The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat!"
This week we are sorting through our faulty collective memories while we discuss “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat”! We’re talking the Mandela/Mengele effect, how dangerous it is to hold Scully up when she’s hangry, the return of Chuck, Mulder’s ...
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Season 11
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Episode 4
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1:57:10
S11 E3: "Is It Still A Plus One If It's Your Doppelganger?"
This week we are avoiding our evil doppelgangers while we discuss “Plus One”! We’re talking our love for Dean Cavalier: Attorney at Law, how much Mulder would love Evil Scully, the strange nurses, and confounding bread pills. We wonder ex...
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Season 11
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Episode 3
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1:36:23
S11 E2: "Can't Touch This (Because It's A Simulation)"
This week we are on the run from long-dead friends while we discuss “This”! We’re talking the return of Cyber Langly, the Boo Crew suddenly turning into action stars, how we really could have used more of Mulder and Scully handcuffed-toge...
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Season 11
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Episode 2
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1:49:55
S11 E1: "My Struggle III: Still Strugglin'"
This week we are doing our very best just to make it through this episode intact while we regrettably discuss “My Struggle III”! We’re talking the episode titles reflecting our increasing struggle to watch these, CSM name drop without any forew...
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Season 11
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Episode 1
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2:11:05
S10 E6: "The Man from S.T.R.U.G.G.L.E. II"
This week we are trying to stop an apocalypse, develop a world-saving vaccine, locate our long-lost son, and find a good parking spot while we discuss “My Struggle II”! We’re talking Scully’s strange anti-vaxx turn, the tonally bizarre Guy Ritc...
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Season 10
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Episode 6
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1:52:47
S10 E5: "Honky Tonk, Babylonkadonk"
This week we are taking mushrooms and trying to contact comatose men while we discuss “Babylon”! We’re talking Mulder dancing at the Badonkadonk, how real it is that Skinner’s migraines are caused by Mulder, wonder who exactly Miller and ...
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Season 10
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Episode 5
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1:39:59
S10 E4: "Home Again 2: Lost in Philadelphia"
This week we are trying to solve the mystery of a coin necklace by our mother’s bedside while we discuss “Home Again”! We’re talking unreuniting with beloved guest actresses as quickly as we reunite with them, Mulder being classic goofy, the Ba...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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1:38:17
S10 E3: "We're Were-Monsters, Not Swear-Monsters"
This week we are turning from lizard to man and back to lizard again as we discuss “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster”! We’re talking the return of Darin Morgan, our long-awaited jokes about Mulder and cell phones, the Kim Manners t...
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Season 10
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Episode 3
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1:29:57
S10 E2: "Folger's Mutation"
This week we are bleeding from the ears from high-pitched screeching sounds while we discuss “Founder’s Mutation”! We’re talking the return of James Wong, our love for the strangely blase coworker, Gupta From My Phone, Mulder giving off the wro...
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Season 10
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Episode 2
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1:35:45
S10 E1: "My (Tad's) Struggle Limo Part 1"
This week we are rebooting the show, our careers, and our relationships while we discuss “My Struggle I”! We’re talking the 400th key to the X-Files, whether Annet Mahendru gets a worse fate here or on The Americans, Chris Carter dictatin...
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Season 10
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Episode 1
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1:50:39
The X-Files: I Can't Believe It's Not Super-Soldiers (2008)
This week we are swapping heads and bodies willy-nilly while we discuss the 2008 movie “The X-Files: I Want to Believe”! We’re talking poor Scully being Mulder’s publicity agent, the inexplicable George W. Bush alien theme sting, the specter of...
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Season 9
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Episode 21
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2:31:21
(BONUS #12) New Phone, Who Doggett (and Reyes): Season 9 In Decline
This week we are pausing and taking a look back at Season 9 as a whole! We review special features, read emails, rank the episodes, share our thoughts on the season, and play a Seinfeld-related game. We’re talking our growing love for Kim Manne...
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Season 9
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Episode 20
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1:57:00
S9 E19: "We Can't Handle The Truth"
This week we are trying to discover the difference between the Seinfeld finale and this X-Files finale while we discuss “The Truth”! We’re talking Gothic heroine Knowle Rohrer, how much Mulder loves his corner, Skinner awkwardly third-whe...
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Season 9
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Episode 19
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2:30:02
S9 E18: "Sunshine Days of Interest"
This week we are teleporting into Windows screensavers while we discuss “Sunshine Days”! We’re talking some patented Vince Burnouts, Michael Emerson: TV Royalty joining the show, 0 days since the last Mulder mention, the theme of abandoning kid...
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Season 9
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Episode 18
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1:28:24
S9 E17: "Release the Dogs-ett"
This week we are wrapping up the second child storyline in as many weeks as we discuss “Release”! We’re talking Scully teaching her class for once and the real reason she’s been avoiding it, Rudolph being able to see shrimp colors, the awkward ...
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Season 9
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Episode 17
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1:47:53
S9 E16: "Sweet Willy"
This week we are foisting our alien children off on unsuspecting Wyoming couples while we discuss “William”! We’re talking how whimsical Doggett is in this one, how unbelievable it is that Spender could beat Doggett in a fight, the hysterical s...
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Season 9
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Episode 16
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1:51:31
S9 E15: "Disembark the Shark!"
This week we are wrapping up The Lone Gunmen’s story (and lives) while we discuss “Jump the Shark”! We’re talking the surprising return of Jimmy and Yves, the real reason why Chuck McGill hates Jimmy McGill, that they couldn’t let The Lon...
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Season 9
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Episode 15
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1:32:03
S9 E14: "The Scary Monsters at the End of This Show"
This week we are stranding ourselves in a snowy mountain cabin and trying to babysit while we discuss “Scary Monsters”! We’re talking Scully’s zombie horde of a class and how all she wants is just to eat her sandwich, the return of Leyla, the i...
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Season 9
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Episode 14
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1:28:25