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“Familiar”

Episode 8 of season 11 means that we only have two episodes of the series remaining.

“Familiar” is a classic feeling Monster-of-the-week style episode where Mulder and Scully investigated a mysterious death in a little town where what happened is not exactly what it seemed.

This did feel like an episode that might have aired in season three or four instead of eleven, which is an amazing fact for the show. The local police are always a big problem in X-Files episodes, either being the guilty party or an eventual victim.

Jason Gray-Stanford, who spent many years as Randy Disher on Monk, was one of those local police officers whose son was killed at the beginning of the show. It is always tough to see someone who I have seen as one character for so many years step into another role like Jason Gray-Stanford does.

Mr. Chuckleteeth, a kiddie show character, was running around the town being the evil killer. However, it turned out he was actually a demon that had been summoned by a witch to curse Gray-Stanford and the curse got out of control.

I liked this episode. It was creepy, but the addition of these hellhound/wolf things was a bit too much. Mr. Chuckleteeth would have been good enough, I think.