>>14201333
I watched every episode and the 2 movies in ~13 days just before S10 came out. I don't sleep much and eating was infrequent, so I was watching anywhere from 10 episodes to an entire season in a single day.
First 5 seasons are brilliant, the first movie is solid, S6 is worth watching, S7 drops the ball and tries to do lots of funny and super serious episodes together, which fucks it up. Mos of the comedy before that was light or dark humour. S8 was where they tried to get rid of Mulder and Scully and rebrand it, hence the major plot retcon of aliens not existing and being government supersoldiers, but then that failed, so they had S9 backpedal on the retcon and say that the aliens pretended to be supersoldiers pretending to be aliens, then they brought back Mulder very sparsely. That was partially due to him wanting to do his own stuff and due to the writers being stubborn.
S8 and 9 had so few episodes that even beat an average, so that upset me a lot.
The second film was a big kick in the nuts, as everyone goes in expecting it to tie up loose ends or at least give us something juicy, and instead we get a normal scientist doing plain old mutilation and Xzibit, of Pimp My Ride fame, raps on the special features for some reason.
Season 10 was more undoing of the S8 and 9 disaster, with only a single episode being worth your time, aside from the first and last one moving the plot forwards. There's some really hamfisted conservative whistleblower with an online radio show that's meant to parody Alex Jones and co, but it really hams up the entire show. They spent so long trying to show us how smartphones and shit affect the aliens hiding their plans, and it drives you to boredom. I honestly can't recall anything apart from the first 3 episodes and the final 10 minutes of the final one.
Haven't seen S11, as I was going to watch it when it's all out. That's 8 standalone episodes, and none are written by Chris Carter, and I've heard positive reactions from the 2nd episode, so hopefully that turns out well.
Side note: Scully is at her cutest in the later seasons, but also her worst in terms of character. It's very rough on my dick.