#like actual OG film clarice rather than show clarice who is great but trapped in a cbs procedural

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I’m enjoying The X Files very much, with the usual reservations for older media (the general “what if Bill Cooper was right?” mytharc throughline, the treatment of race, the weird amount of prison rape jokes even by 1990s standards) but the downside is that I’ll watch a mediocre period procedural set in the 1990s attempting a very serious arc about an evil corporate coverup (CBS Clarice, I wish you were good, I wish you were good so fucking hard, but you are so bad) and be cursed with visions of it as an X Files two-parter.