Wednesday, March 4, 2020

The Lone Gunmen

The Lone Gunmen is a failed 2001 spinoff of The X Files revolving around the trio of Conspiracy Theorists that were Mulder's friends and a way for him to "leak" information about the Government's wrongdoings and shady shit to the Public.

Despite being created by X Files creator Chris Carter and future creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul Vince Gilligan, The Lone Gunmen comes across as dull, obnoxious, and tedious. I think this stems from the characters while being fun in small doses whenever they appeared on The X Files just not being strong enough to hold their own show. The show I felt  tried to hard to be a silly sitcom instead of a hard Conspiracy Thriller. Overall the show is very lackluster and I wouldn't recommend it even for the most hardcore X-phile.


Addendum: if there is a bright side to the show than it is that Vince Gilligan learned from his mistakes with Lone Gunmen when creating Better Call Saul. Since even though that Saul Goodman was the quasi Comic Relief in Breaking Bad, is spin off show is more of a serious courtroom drama with humor sprinkled in instead of a full blown sitcom.

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