The last good episode of the series!!!

I'll make this short and to the point: This Is Not Happening is a stunning episode! It's fast paced and exciting, with an ending that leaves you breathless and teary-eyed. But from then on it's all downhill, in my opinion... I loathed most of season 8 (and 9 - its only redeeming factor the finale), but for 42 minutes my faith in the show and its writers came back when I watched TINH.
The second part of the two-parter - DeadAlive - is worth watching, if not for anything else then for the reunion.

Karen, Copenhagen.

a shame to begin season 9

this was an o.k episode, one of the average type ones you saw more in season 7, when some bad or moderate directing was displayed. whilst it remained a little interesting, and certainly a strange performance from lucy lawless, i felt the lack of mulder really let it down. i mean what happened after the kiss!? he just up and left! with monica and john dashing around back and forth complaining about a erased tape. i wasnt hooked.

Season Five

Season 5 for me is tha best season of the show. The stand alone episodes are in the whole very good, and the mythology ones are amazing, particuall Redux/Redux2.

In this season Mulder and Scullys relationship really evolves and the chemistry between them is buzzing. I found lots of the episodes funny.

For me this is the peak of the show, and even though the following series are good, they can't match the fun and brilliant story lines of series five.

Not the best but OK

***

This has been slated by some reviewers and each is entitled to their opinion. Mine is that this is a worthwhile addition to the X Files, no better than the best and no worse than the worst.

The series itself can't have every episode mind blowing even though the series is a true classic.

If you are an X files fan, then you need this if only because you are an X files fan.

***

Check your discs.

Well of course the X-Files collection is worth 5 stars but one of the discs in my set was missing. Well actally I had a missing disc and a duplicate. I should probably have checked when I received the set but didn't discover the missing disc until sometime later (it was in season 6) so amazon refused to replace it.
Schoolboy error? Perhaps.
Amazon customer service rubbish? No doubt.

lights, camera and lots and lots of action! :)

After the moaning and groaning of some fans before season 8, saying things like"ahhh its all over, mulders gone and the show will go bad", how wrong they were. Season 8 was (in my opinion) one of the finest seasons in the shows history, creating some wonderful new characters and brilliant episodes like (alone, per manum) and this 2 part finale entitled"existance". This is a brilliant finale with more twists and turns and some really exciting moments. My favourite scenes were between doggett and mulder as these characters are so different from one another but seem to work off eachother perfectly. The ever beautiful and brilliant Gillian Anderson turns in another fine performance, as does David Duchovny. Annabeth Gish really makes here mark in these two episodes, but i have to take my hat off to Robert Patrick who entered the lions den at the start of the season and has come up trumps, never missing a chance to shine :) ***** stars

A fantastic season

An all round great season made better as it's the last 'real' full X-Files season, as season 8 sees the disappearence of Mulder. Stand out episodes include All Things, a fabulously gorgeous and intelligent episode written by and diricted by Gillian, finally giving Scully a chance to choose the life she leads, a very important character development. The Amazing Maleeni sees some very funny and intelligent moments. X-Cops is a great spoof documentary giving some light hearted relief. Hungry is a classic monster of the week episode about eating brains. The Sixth Extinction, Amor Fati, Millennium, Rush, The Goldberg Variation, Orison, Je Souhaite and Requiem are the other standouts, whilst Hollywood AD is the only disapointing episode with only a few worthwhile moments.

Love the show, but amazon's info on this item is wrong!

On product details it says you get 7 disc. But you only get 1 disc, that will say: not the whole first season. Only a disc from it, so you can try and see if you like the show.

Amazon needs to change the info.