“Potatoes” is all about how we see ourselves and grapple with what’s an appropriate level of self-importance. BB creator Vince Gilligan wrote two of The X-Files’ funniest and most beloved episodes, “Small Potatoes” (about a shape-shifter) and “Bad Blood” (a Rashomon-style vampire tale), neither of which necessarily screams “Walter White.” But under the humor and wink-winkiness of the episodes, there are some similarities to the Heisenberg universe. The truth is out there! I want to believe!) It’s not such a stretch to think Homeland could easily use The X-Files’ tagline “Trust No One.”īreaking Bad could probably use the line, too. (The episode also centers on a character named Saul. The same thing happens in “Sleepless,” in which soldiers aren’t just taught to survive dangerous wartime conditions but are instead themselves turned into unflinching super-soldiers. Brody on Homeland gets “turned,” but he also gets (forgive me) turned into a weapon of sorts. Their combat experiences have fundamentally and essentially altered them, far beyond the effects of typical PTSD. “Fresh Bones,” “Sleepless,” and the previously mentioned “Unrequited” are all about soldiers returning home and struggling to reintegrate into civilian life. Emasculata” uses gross-out biological warfare mumbo jumbo to explore the ideas of government cover-ups, corruption, and how intelligence works in an information-driven ecosystem. Gordon’s solo episodes are even more Homeland-ish: “F. “Conduit” is about alien abduction, but it’s more about the limits of observation and what kinds of information are simply not able to be gathered if people don’t want to talk. The episodes they collaborated on, though, have Homeland markers all over them: “Fallen Angel” is about a ufologist, sort of, but it’s more about how Scully and Mulder are at once part of and yet very detached from the FBI - just like Carrie and the CIA. Gansa told the AV Club last week that he “struggled to write coherent, compelling episodes of television on The X-Files,” and he left the show pretty early on, while Gordon stayed. And it’s hardly the only X-Files episode with echoes in current dramas, thanks to a group of alumni who are all currently cranking out quality shows: Gordon, Homeland co-creator Alex Gansa, Breaking Bad creator and showrunner Vince Gilligan, and American Horror Story’s (among other things) Tim Minear all spent time writing for Mulder and Scully, and those episodes foreshadow their work today. But those are scenes from “Unrequited,” a season-four episode of The X-Files - written by Homeland co-creator Howard Gordon.
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What now?Ī female agent weaves her way through a crowd at a political rally, desperately tracking an ex-soldier she thinks is about to open fire on government and military officials.Ī veteran, disillusioned with the military (which he believes betrayed him), hides in plain sight while planning a series a high-level assassinations. A woman weeps when she discovers the husband she thought died years ago in combat overseas is actually alive she has mourned him and remarried.
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