I’ve been watching a lot of new TV-series lately and yesterday I was in a nostalgic mood and wanted to take a trip down memory lane. I thought The X-files would do the trick and luckily I found a recently uploaded torrent of the complete series on demonoid. Needless to say I resumed with downloading it.However, one thing caught my attention: I discovered that one episode had been downloaded more frequently than the others so I decided to investigate. It turns out it was the episode where the FBI-agents encountered an in-breed family living in seclusion, hidden away from society (The X-files: Home, s. #4 ep. #3).
My hypothesis is that the increased interest in this particular episode was triggered by the recent, and highly publicised, events in Amstetten. If this is true one may re-evaluate the cultural impact of The X-files on public imagination which could still linger on as part of our collective subconscious, even long after the series have been cancelled. The most disturbing part is that the truth, evidently, is out there…
