Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5262 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-12-27
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 7
• Formats: Box set, Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 45 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
In Season 4 of The X-Files, Scully is a bit upset by her on-off terminal cancer and Mulder is supposed to shoot himself in the season finale (did anyone believe that?), but in episode after episode the characters still plod dutifully around atrocity sites tossing off wry witticisms in that bland investigative demeanour out of fashion among TV cops since Dragnet. Perhaps the best achievement of this season is "Home", the most unpleasant horror story ever presented on prime-time US TV. It's not a comfortable show--confronted with this ghastly parade of incest, inbreeding, infanticide and mutilation, you'd think M & S would drop the jokes for once--but shows a willingness to expand the envelope. By contrast, ventures into golem, reincarnation, witchcraft and Invisible Man territory throw up run-of-the-mill body counts, spotlighting another recurrent problem. For heroes, M & S rarely do anything positive: they work out what is happening after all the killer's intended victims have been snuffed ("Kaddish"), let the monster get away ("Sanguinarium") and cause tragedies ("The Field Where I Died"). No wonder they're stuck in the FBI basement where they can do the least damage.

The series has settled enough to play variations on earlier hits: following the liver vampire, we have a melanin vampire ("Teliko") and a cancer vampire ("Leonard Betts"), and return engagements for the oily contact lens aliens and the weasely ex-Agent Krycek ("Tunguska"/"Terma"). Occasional detours into send-up or post-modernism are indulged, yielding both the season's best episode ("Small Potatoes") and its most disappointing ("Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"). "Small Potatoes", with the mimic mutant who tries out Mulder's life and realises what a loser he is (how many other pin-up series heroes get answerphone messages from their favourite phone-sex lines?), works as a genuine sci-fi mystery--for once featuring a mutant who doesn't have to kill people to live--and as character insight. --Kim Newman

Special Features
English
Region 2

Synopsis
This box set features the entire fourth series of THE X-FILES, which sees both Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) struggling with personal demons, as well as government conspiracies, chilling murders, and seemingly unexplainable phenomena. Episodes include "Home," "Paper Hearts," "Tunguska," "Terma," "Tempus Fugit," "Small Potatoes," 'Demons," and many more.

Customer Reviews

Another outstanding season - The show at it's peak!
Generally a very strong, mature season, a close second to Season three. The mythology storyline mostly takes a welcome break from the confusing colonisation / cloning story and takes a backseat to the stand-alone episodes. Fortunately these are mostly excellent with some great thrillers, monsters and a "back to basics" UFO story in "Tempus Fugit" / "Max". Production values and effects are excellent, and all episodes are well-crafted without being too slick. Arguably the highlight of the season is the revelation of Scully's cancer and Gillian Anderson's touching performances bring a lot of emotional depth to this storyline. Some lighter episodes are more than welcome in what is generally quite a serious and solemn season, but none are as good as Darin Morgan's genius work on season three.

Best episodes:
Gethsemane
Home
Tunguska
Memento Mori
Small Potatoes

Avoid:
El Mundo Gira
Synchrony

Firing on all cylinders
This is my favourite year of The X-Files. The average episodes are great, and the best are simply outstanding. There is serious drama, particularly for Scully's character. Episodes like Home and Sanguinarium are particularly creepy, whilst others develop the Smoking Man's character, or the possibilities surrounding Samantha Mulder's disappearance.

This season won several Emmy awards, and deservedly so. Although it remained a great show, I don't believe it was ever again quite so consistently good as this season.

Favourites:
Memento Mori, Paper Hearts, Never Again, Demons, Home, Tunguska/Terma, Tempus Fugit/Max

Episodes I remember not liking, but enjoyed this time round:
Never Again, Kaddish

Weak points:
El Mundo Gira - goatsuckers, indeed.

The X Files at its BEST...by far my favourite season of its entire run
after three genuinly fantastic seasons its here where the show reaches its peak,and is genuinly fantastic all the way through with hardly any missable episodes.
eppy reviews-

Herrenvolk(2)-5/5
Home-5/5
Teliko-3/5
Unruhe-4/5
The Field Where I died-4/5
Sanguinarium-4/5
Musings Of a Ciggarette Smoking man-4/5
Tunguska(1)-5/5
Terma(2)-5/5
Paper Hearts*-5/5-one of the greatest ever made.
El Mundo Gira-4/5
Leonard Betts*-5/5-another fave of mine
Never Again*-5/5
Memento Mori*-5/5
Kaddish-3/5
Unrequited-3/5
Tempus Fugit(1)-5/5
Max(2)-5/5
Synchrony-3/5
Small Potatoes*-5/5-the greatest episode of the show ever!!
Zero Sum-4/5
Elegy-4/5
Demons-5/5
Gethsemane(1)*-5/5-shocking cliffhanger that leaves you wanting more.

as you can see,this season of the show contains the majority of the greatest episodes...season 5 & 6 continue this standard...but for me this is my favourite season of the show.

BRING ON SEASON 5

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