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The midpoint of The X-Files' nine season run, The Complete Season Five of FOX's genre-defining hit starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson is frequently considered at the pinnacle of the show's accomplishments, and has a lot to offer Emily's fans.
The episode "All Souls" features Emily in a four-role performance as a set of quadruplets with angelic origins. Emily's Ginger Snaps co-stars also make their mark on the Vancouver-shot show: Katharine Isabelle guest stars in the episode "Schizogeny" and Mimi Rogers is introduced in a recurring role as an FBI agent. This season also set the stage for the blockbuster 1998 X-Files movie.
For the detail oriented, consider these fun trivialities about this season: there is an episode entitled "Emily" (although it focuses on Gillian Anderson's onscreen offspring, not Emily, unfortunately); there is an episode entitled "The Red and the Black," which ended up being an important phrase and theme in Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning; there is an episode entitled "Mind's Eye," and Saskatchewan-based Minds Eye Pictures produced TV shows Mentors (which had Emily in the role of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley) and 2030 CE (which starred Ginger Snaps: Unleashed's Tatiana Maslany); there is an episode entitled "The Post-Modern Prometheus," and the full title of Mary Shelley's classic is Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus.
Now come on, how many more coincidences do we need to dig up before you realize you were destined to embrace this particular season?
Diehards and masochists can also check out the obscenely gigantic The X-Files: The Complete Seasons 1-9, which may require eyewear from A Clockwork Orange.
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This DVD has the following features:
- The entire season on six discs
- "The Truth About Season Five" documentary
- 46-minute special effects featurette
- Deleted scenes with commentary from series creator Chris Carter
- Special effects sequences with commentary
- Select episode commentary
- Promotional TV spots
- DVD ROM game
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Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps: Unleashed
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
Dead Like Me: Season 2
Dead Like Me: Season 1
Small Sacrifices
Stephen King's It
Da Vinci's Inquest
The X-Files: Season Five
The Twilight Zone
Insomnia
Prozac Nation
Christy: A Change of Seasons
Christy: A New Beginning
Christy: Return to Cutter Gap
In Cold Blood
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