Episode 20: Darkness Falls (And a kewpie doll if you know how to pronounce Jason Beghe's name)

This episode is, in monster-of-the-week tradition, a tight 45-minute horror movie, with an ecological message. Maybe episodic TV is not quite the place for Chris Carter to indulge absolutely all of his apocalyptic tendencies, as this episode's naturalistic "downer" tendency makes it feel needlessly ambiguous and somewhat unsatisfying...lacking in a particularly effective resolution.

But it does offer pleasures anyway. Mainly through well-executed tension, good atmosphere and excellent performances from a solid guest cast that includes Titus Welliver and Jason Beghe, who Daniel and I are both embarrassed to admit has a name we can't pronounce.

No matter...because the episode still gives us enough to talk about, and it's a good talk.

Dig in.

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