Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543228585
Format: Box set
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Running Time: 904
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1993-09-10

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Spotlight customer reviews:

Customer Rating:

Summary: X-Files
Comment: I sent this DVD set to my daughter as a gift. She is an X-Files fan and enjoys the show very much.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Pretty Good!!!
Comment: I like the xfiles and my wife really likes them! the dvd arrived on time and the packaging is pretty cool as it doesnt take up too much room in my growing dvd collection. the season is broken up pretty good and there are some decent special features. all in all a great buy at 25.99 which is what i paid for it when it was on sale.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Great if you missed it the first time.
Comment: If you like the X - Files (I do) and missed some of the shows the first time around, this is great. Sculley and Mulder protecting the world from things the FBI doesn't want you to know about. Of course, the sparks are still flying between them.

Customer Rating:

Summary: A must have if your an X-File fan
Comment: This season has great stand alone episodes. Bad Blood is by far my favorite humorous episode of the whole series and The Post-Modern Prometheus is one of my all time favorite episodes. Also the mythology in this season is great.

Customer Rating:

Summary: The Turning Point...
Comment: This is where the series begins a downward trajectory that lasts until the end. Some very good episodes, admittedly, but not as great as the preceding seasons. My recommendations: Pine Bluff Variant, Folie A Deux, Minds' Eye, Travelers (even though it is a riff on sci-fi classic 'The Hidden."), Bad Blood (One of the best funny episodes of the show.), and Chinga (co-written by Stephen King and DISTURBING AS HELL!) Do yourself a favor and go no further, it's all downhill from here. Goodbye, X-Files, it seems we hardly knew ye...

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Editorial Reviews:

The midpoint of what would be a nine-season show, the fifth season of The X-Files (the first to be put on DVD in anamorphic widescreen format) gives fans a heavy heaping of what they love. For the mythology buffs, riveting episodes from the season bookends "Redux" and "The End" to several episodes in between tease with new revelations about the vast government conspiracies and alien invasion plot lines sketched in earlier seasons. But enough questions are left unanswered for the theatrical X-Files movie, which was released the subsequent summer, and the seasons that followed. Supporting characters like the Lone Gunmen, Agent Krycek, the Pusher Robert Modell, and Fox's father and sister Bill and Samantha Mulder are flushed out in more detail in several episodes that occasionally jump back in time to cover the prehistory of the X-files. New chess pieces are introduced, each raising new questions: the clairvoyant child Gibson Praise, Agent Spender, faceless alien resistance fighters with pyromaniacal tendencies, a child who may be Scully's, and Mulder's old flame, agent Diana Fowley (Mimi Rogers). All the time, no one knows who will be assassinated next, who is or isn't dead, just who isn't potentially a child of the Cigarette Smoking Man, and why the base of the neck is everyone's vulnerable spot. The creature feature stand-alone episodes vary in quality, but all are redeemed by the outrageously funny self-parody episode "Bad Blood," a fan favorite that guest stars Luke Wilson as a small-town sheriff who catches Scully's eye.

Finally, "shippers" (fans who would love nothing better than to see Mulder and Scully act upon their feelings for each other) get a heavy dose of the usual sexual innuendo and lingering, tender glances between the attractive costars. Mimi Rogers and Luke Wilson incite palpable jealousy between the leads; the appearance of a wedding band on Mulder's hand in a back story hints at stories not told; and the usual extreme and dimly lit crises illustrate just how far Mulder and Scully will go for each other. In the end, the complexities of their relationship may be the most tense and intriguing of all the mysteries explored by this epic television series. --Eugene Wei