Episode Rankings: The X-Files

The X-Files is such a brilliantly experimental show, constantly jumping between a complicated and at times convoluted serialized myth arc and episodic storylines so varied and separate that you could easily call X-Files an anthology. Anchored by two phenomenal main leads with fantastic chemistry, The X-Files has managed to accomplish a lot, from its many iconic moments and monsters, to its cult status when it was at the height of its popularity, to the sheer amount of screenwriters (Darin Morgan) and directors (Vince Gilligan) it brought into the spotlight. This show may be uneven, but its heights are some of the best episodes in TV history. Just don't go past Season 6, it's for the best. Here's my ranking of the X-Files episodes I've seen and reviewed:

1. Jose Chung's From Outer Space (S3.20)
2. Bad Blood (S5.12)
3. Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose (S3.04)
4. Triangle (S6.03)
5. Ice (S1.08)
6. Pusher (S3.17)
7. Redux II (S5.02)
8. Paper Hearts (S4.10)
9. Paper Clip (S3.02)
10. Humbug (S2.20)
11. Small Potatoes (S4.20)
12. Drive (S6.02)
13. One Breath (S2.08)
14. Folie A Deux (S5.18)
15. The Post-Modern Prometheus (S5.05)
16. The Erlenmeyer Flask (S1.24)
17. One Son (S6.12)
18. Soft Light (S2.23)
19. Duane Barry (S2.05)
20. Tooms (S1.21)
21. Herrenvolk (S4.01)
22. Gethsemane (S4.24)
23. 731 (S3.10)
24. Squeeze (S1.03)
25. Musings Of A Cigarette Smoking Man (S4.07)
26. The Red And The Black (S5.14)
27. The End (S5.20)
28. Beyond The Sea (S1.13)
29. Apocrypha (S3.16)
30. Unusual Suspects (S5.03)
31. War Of The Coprophages (S3.12)
32. Memento Mori (S4.14)
33. Anasazi (S2.25)
34. Two Fathers (S6.11)
35. Ascension (S2.06)
36. The Pine Bluff Variant (S5.18)
37. Nisei (S3.09)
38. Kitsunegari (S5.08)
39. EBE (S1.17)
40. End Game (S2.17)
41. Kill Switch (S5.11)
42. Little Green Men (S2.01)
43. Redux (S5.01)
44. Talitha Cumi (S3.24)
45. How The Ghosts Stole Christmas (S6.06)
46. Fallen Angel (S1.10)
47. Leonard Betts (S4.12)
48. Patient X (S5.13)
49. Piper Maru (S3.15)
50. Darkness Falls (S1.20)
51. Demons (S4.23)
52. The Blessing Way (S3.01)
53. Avatar (S3.21)
54. Max (S4.18)
55. The Beginning (S6.01)
56. Christmas Carol (S5.06)
57. Colony (S2.16)
58. The Host (S2.02)
59. Pilot (S1.01)
60. Detour (S5.04)
61. Wetwired (S3.23)
62. Irresistible (S2.13)
63. DPO (S3.03)
64. Tithonus (S6.10)
65. Unruhe (S4.04)
66. Tunguska (S4.08)
67. Mind's Eye (S5.16)
68. Red Museum (S2.10)
69. Oubliette (S3.08)
70. Dreamland: Part 2 (S6.05)
71. Eve (S1.11)
72. Tempus Fugit (S4.17)
73. Emily (S5.07)
74. Shapes (S1.19)
75. Deep Throat (S1.02)
76. SR 819 (S6.09)
77. Roland (S1.23)
78. Zero Sum (S4.21)
79. Syzygy (S3.13)
80. Terma (S4.09)
81. The Calusari (S2.21)
82. Home (S4.02)
83. Die Hand Die Verlezt (S2.14)
84. Never Again (S4.13)
85. Travelers (S5.15)
86. Quagmire (S3.22)
87. Conduit (S1.04)
88. Blood (S2.03)
89. 2Shy (S3.06)
90. Lazarus (S1.15)
91. Our Town (S2.24)
92. Shadows (S1.06)
93. Fire (S1.12)
94. Aubrey (S2.12)
95. Elegy (S4.12)
96. The Walk (S3.07)
97. Dreamland: Part 1 (S6.05)
98. Born Again (S1.22)
99. Kaddish (S4.15)
100. F Emasculata (S2.22)
101. Terms Of Endearment (S6.07)
102. Grotesque (S3.14)
103. Chinga (S5.10)
104. Unrequited (S4.16)
105. Revelations (S3.11)
106. Synchrony (S4.19)
107. The Jersey Devil (S1.05)
108. All Souls (S5.17)
109. Fresh Bones (S2.15)
110. Young At Heart (S1.16)
111. Sleepless (S2.04)
112. Sanguinarium (S4.06)
113. Dod Kalm (S2.19)
114. The List (S3.05)
115. Ghost In The Machine (S1.07)
116. Firewalker (S2.09)
117. The Rain King (S6.08)
118. El Mundo Gira (S4.11)
119. Miracle Man (S1.18)
120. Schizogeny (S5.09)
121. Hell Money (S3.19)
122. Excelsis Dei (S2.11)
123. Space (S1.09)
124. The Field Where I Died (S4.05)
125. Gender Bender (S1.14)
126. Fearful Symmetry (S2.18)
127. Teso Dos Bichos (S3.18)
128. Teliko (S4.03)
129. 3 (S2.07)