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Netflix's Best Kept Secret

A recommendation for a show that is tragically under watched by my peers.

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Netflix's Best Kept Secret
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Netflix has a lot to offer, now more than ever, with new quality shows being added to the service seemingly every day. But there is always a limit to what it can offer in new content, and not everything that it offers may be your style. Say you just finished "Stranger Things", "Narcos", and "Black Mirror", and "The Get Down" isn't really your style (maybe Jaden Smith ruined "The Karate Kid" for you). It's time you delved into Netflix's catalog, to find something just as good and a bit less new. But maybe I can save you the search, and let you get straight into bingeing.

Ladies and gentleman, I introduce to you... "The X-Files", starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. It ran from 1993 to 2002, making it one of the longest running sci-fi tv shows ever. The premise is that agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), a brilliant criminal profiler with a strong belief in the supernatural, and agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), a highly skeptical medical doctor, are assigned to a series of cold cases held by the FBI called the x-files. Together they embark on hundreds of investigations guided by these case files, coming face to face with cryptids, mutants, ghosts, and aliens... or easily explained natural phenomena, as Scully would have you believe.

This show can satisfy all the cravings left to you by the shows you've recently finished. Addicted to Narcos? This show is honestly one of my favorite cop shows of all time, with plenty of police action, and the partner dynamic of Mulder and Scully is very similar to that of Murphy and Javi. Stranger Things left you far too soon? "The X-Files" has all the supernatural action you can handle, plus the nostalgia from its setting in the nineties. Obsessed with Black Mirror? This show is about as anti-government and cynical as possible, with the federal government up to all sorts of morally questionable hi jinks. But arguably the best part of this show is the whopping 202 episodes it pumped out in its nine-year lifetime. With an average run time of 44 minutes, you won't be running out anytime soon. And I'm not even mentioning the two movies the show spawned, and the revival in 2016, featuring a tenth season with six episodes, and a chance at another revival sometime soon.

The show does have it's weak points. After the second season, the show's overarching storyline begins to become very confusing, even for an X-Files fan like me, and because of this, I ended up skipping some episodes altogether. But within it's occasionally muddled storyline hide some of the best TV on Netflix, and you don't have to be a sci-fi nerd to appreciate that.


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