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Faux Memories: The X-Files S11x4: "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" Review

January 27, 2018 at ii:01 PM | Posted in Idiot box | Leave a comment
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SPOILER Alert: This review contains major spoilers of The X-Files season 11. Read at your own hazard!

This episode felt like a self-parody of The Ten-Files in its entirety as it poked fun of the things that the testify were famous for. It's light and entertaining at best, given that it's written past 10-Files veteran Darin Morgan – the same writer who gave u.s.a. classic comedic episodes like "Minor Potatoes" and "Jose Chung'southward From Outer Space."

However, in that location wasn't annihilation substantial in "The Lost Fine art of Forehead Sweat" in terms of plot. At that place was no crime for Mulder and Scully to solve; no UFO sighting to investigate. There was only this jittery guy named Reggie Something who asked Mulder to help him testify that he's real. Reggie claimed that he used to work with Mulder and Scully but that "they" (a shadowy "group") erased the duo's memories then Mulder and Scully couldn't call back him. Co-ordinate to him, there'south a government conspiracy that were trying to erase him from people's memories.

The episode took on the popular Mandela Outcome theory, in which groups of people misremember the same things. The theory is relatively new and is a popular Internet urban legend.

At outset Mulder regarded Reggie equally crazy during their offset secret rendezvous. Reggie tried to bear witness his example by maxim that Mulder's favorite episode of The Twilight Zone called "The Lost Martian" never existed. It was just a false memory. Mulder tried to search for the episode in his collection of VHS tapes to prove him wrong only to no avail. Reggie as well reached out to Scully and handed her a box of Goop-O ABC – her favorite babyhood jelly. But according to Scully, when she tried to find it in stores over the years, people often told her in that location was no such matter and that she must be looking for Clot-O 123 instead.

Afterwards in the episode, Mulder and Scully met with Reggie in the parking garage where most of their interactions happened. Reggie shared more of his discoveries virtually a cover-up past "they" on altered memories. When Mulder suggested that he's experiencing the Mandela Outcome theory, Reggie corrected him and claimed that the term was actually called Mengele Outcome. He also revealed the existent identity of "they." Information technology turned out that a guy named Dr. They was the mastermind of the Mengele Issue. Apparently, Dr. They altered people'due south memories years agone that's why they couldn't even remember him.

But Mulder and Scully were not buying Reggie's story so he dropped the ultimate bomb on them: he was office of the X-Files division in the FBI. Mulder and Scully were shocked of form.

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At present the episode took the one-act in the story farther by cut the scene midway and showing The Ten-Files' opening credits, simply this time with Reggie in it. Not only that, the succeeding scenes showed Reggie inserted into scenes taken from the evidence's classic episodes such every bit the Pilot, "Tooms," "Clyde Bruckman'south Terminal Placidity," "Dwelling house," and "Pocket-size Potatoes." I plant this rather self-indulgent and overkill (Darin Morgan wrote two of these episodes and also guest-starred in one) only most fans idea it was a funny homage to the show.

When a frustrated Mulder tried to make sense of what Reggie said, he suddenly got a call from Dr. They himself who decided to show upwards and see him at a public place. Reggie'due south claims nigh Dr. They were validated when the doctor himself admitted to Mulder virtually masterminding the Mengele Effect and twisting the facts. To what end? Apparently, to control the future.

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The episode got a bit serious when Mulder and Dr. They had a deep conversation most what constitutes truth when at that place's a proliferation of fake news in this solar day and age. Dr. They claimed that no affair if people are presented with the truth, they're even so left with a choice whether to believe information technology or non. People choose what they want to believe.

Does this mean that Reggie was right about everything all along? Not exactly. Mulder and Scully later plant out that Reggie was really a quondam government employee who served under diverse agencies including the National Security Agency (NSA). Apparently, Reggie had a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized. He only knew about Mulder and Scully and the Ten-Files sectionalization considering he illegally wiretapped them in their office. In short, Reggie was mentally sick earlier he escaped from the hospital and made contact with Mulder. He was never a part of the X-Files segmentation.

Just what I don't get here is that if Reggie'southward claims were just a product of his mentally unstable condition, and so where did Dr. They cistron in all of this? Mulder had a personal interaction with the dr. himself so at that place might be some kind of truth in what Reggie said. Unless Dr. They was a mental patient himself in the same hospital equally Reggie and escaped with him. That could explain information technology. As for Skinner knowing Reggie, I really think he could've met him through his various interactions with the other agencies in the government.

What I didn't like well-nigh the episode was the ending where Reggie recounted his "last case" together with Mulder and Scully. The "concluding case" involved a UFO landing on Earth in which Mulder, Scully and Reggie had an run across with the alien. It was all rather silly for me and there was too much Trump reference in the episode in general.

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I didn't love "The Lost Art of Brow Sweat" just I didn't hate information technology either. I guess information technology wasn't just as funny as flavor 10's "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster" or Morgan's episodes in previous seasons.

But I beloved what Scully said in the cease when she said, "I want to call up how it was." For me, I'd similar to remember the show how it was:  just Mulder and Scully solving paranormal cases together – no Reggie in the movie.

Side Notes

• I loved the opening scene where Mulder merely arrived from "squatchin'".
• Mulder got indignant when Scully causeless he confused The Twilight Zone with The Outer Limits. I loved The Outer Limits by the way.
• That scene of Mulder's head on an eight-year-sometime boy'south body — fantastic shot.
• Mulder'due south idea of a engagement was a stake out in a parking garage. Oh come on Mulder, you tin can practise amend than that!
• Spotnitz Sanitarium, the name written at the back of the ambulance – an obvious shoutout to fellow X-Files writer Frank Spotnitz.

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