Season 11 expectations
This is Scully’s last season, so I’m praying they can wrap this up to a satisfying conclusion. But I’m not very optimistic with Carter in the chair.
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Having said that...I'm a sucker for the show so I'll be watching, albeit with rock-bottom expectations.
Frank Spotnitz (man in the high castle)
Vince Gilligan (Breaking bad, better call saul)
John Shiban (Hell on Wheels)
Howard Gordon (Homeland, 24)
Morgan & Wong (Final Destination series, Amerigan Horror Story for Wong)
And then, of course, the one offs by Darin Morgan.
Even if some of those shows aren't home runs, you can clearly trace some of the style of the original X Files to these writers. It is no surprise that the more classic horror episodes of the original run can be traced to Morgan and Wong (Home, Die Hand Die Verletzt). Just like it is no surprise that the episodes with the best character work were written by Gilligan (Drive, Pusher). Or that the deep state conspiracy ones were often written by Gordon (Nisei, Fallen Angel).
Meanwhile, Carter has done exactly nothing worthwhile outside of the x files. My expectation for season 11 is that all the mythos episodes will be written by carter and will suck, Wong and Morgan will have solid by unspectacular motw episodes which will be dark and creepy, Darin Morgan will have a funny episode where we will go in looking for expectations to be broken only to still be surprised. Carter was lucky to land a writing room that ranged from "solid but unspectacular" to "all time best" at a time when you could have 5 or 6 myth episodes in a 22 episode season.