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There's a lot of scripted TV being made these days. Let's watch it all, together!

Eric Brasure and Richard Goodness


    • Aug 9, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 46m AVG DURATION
    • 98 EPISODES


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    Tuning In Episode 108: The X-Files: Field Trip

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2018 35:26


    Tuning In reaches its final episode as Mulder and Scully go on a “Field Trip”. We also talk about the series as a whole. But don’t despair about the end of Tuning In–head over to trekaboutshow.com for more of our podcasting. Thanks for listening! iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 107: The X-Files: The Unnatural/Three of a Kind

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2018 49:34


    David Duchovny writes and directs his first episode of the show, and “The Unnatural” brings us maybe the strongest disagreement yet. Then in “Three of a Kind”, the Lone Gunmen try to rescue someone. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 106: The X-Files: Trevor/Milagro

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2018 35:16


    “Trevor” is a complete mess of an episode that almost defeats us. Then in “Milagro”, a pretentious writer defeats himself. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 105: The X-Files: Arcadia/Alpha

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2018 42:04


    The X-Files goes all-in on the shipping in “Arcadia”, and then in “Alpha”, a ship brings trouble. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 104: The X-Files: Agua Mala/Monday

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2018 47:44


    Mulder and Scully head to Florida to meet with Arthur Dales and get stuck in a bad sitcom in “Agua Mala”, and then the agents get stuck in the same day in “Monday”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 103: The X-Files: Two Fathers/One Son

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2018 53:01


    Somewhat bizarrely, The X-Files has decided to end the mythology storyline in the middle of the sixth season. The two-parter “Two Fathers” and “One Son” is somewhat successful but still leaves us wanting an actual explanation. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 102: The X-Files: S.R. 819/Tithonus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2018 47:13


    We get another Skinner-centric episode with “S.R. 819” and a Scully-centric episode with “Tithonus”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 101: The X-Files: Terms of Endearment/The Rain King

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2018 44:24


    Bruce Campbell appears on The X-Files in “Terms of Endearment”, and weather appears in “The Rain King”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 100: The X-Files: Dreamland II/How the Ghosts Stole Christmas

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2018 50:33


    On the Tuning In 100th episode spectacular, we wrap up the body-switch two-parter by dunking on “Dreamland II”, then The X-Files gets really, really weird in “How the Ghosts Stole Christmas”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 99: The X-Files: Triangle/Dreamland

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2018 51:14


    Chris Carter must really be obsessed with The Wizard of Oz, as he gives us a riff on it in the remarkable “Triangle”. Then, the show decides to become terrible in “Dreamland”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 98: The X-Files: The Beginning/Drive

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2018 51:30


    The sixth season of The X-Files kind of ignores the movie as it makes the move to sunny, sunny California, in “The Beginning”. Vince Gilligan gives us a taut thriller with “Drive”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 97: The X-Files: Fight the Future

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2018 47:25


    We have reached the first X-Files movie, and it’s a very weird and not entirely successful mishmash that attempts to tell a self-contained mythology story to get both fans and people that have never seen an episode into the theaters. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 96: The X-Files, Folie a Deux/The End

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2018 52:51


    Vince Gilligan gives us perhaps his best episode yet with “Folie a Deux”, and we reach “The End” of the fifth season. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 95: The X-Files, All Souls/The Pine Bluff Variant

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2018 47:02


    It’s John Shiban week on Tuning In! First up, Shiban gives us the simultaneously boring and offensive “All Souls”. Then, he contributes a taut action thriller with “The Pine Bluff Variant”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 94: The X-Files, Travellers/Mind’s Eye

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2018 45:48


    We get another flashback episode, this time to J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and the origin of the x-files, in “Travellers”. Then in “Mind’s Eye”, Lili Taylor does her best to make a mediocre episode something better. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 93: The X-Files, Patient X/The Red and the Black

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2018 41:23


    The mythology makes another appearance and this time, we get some (vague) answers, in the two-parter “Patient X” and “The Red and the Black”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 92: The X-Files, Kill Switch/Bad Blood

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2018 60:27


    Coming on the heels of Stephen King’s “Chinga”, “Kill Switch” is a pretty standard William Gibson story. However, there’s nothing standard about “Bad Blood”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 91: The X-Files, Schizogeny/Chinga

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2018 39:42


    Season five gives us the worst episode in quite a while, “Schizogeny”, and Stephen King pens “Chinga”, which is mostly lazy but does feature some solid Mulder and Scully dynamic. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 90: The X-Files, Emily/Kitsunegari

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2018 44:23


    “Emily” is a mostly-disappointing resolution to last week’s cliffhanger, and “Kitsunegari” is a mostly-disappointing follow-up to season three’s “Pusher”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 89: The X-Files, The Post-Modern Prometheus/Christmas Carol

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2018 62:23


    Are you ready for a heady discussion about personal truth and the fallibility of memory? Then get ready for our conversation about “The Post-Modern Prometheus”. Then in “Christmas Carol”, Scully gets involved in an apparent suicide, with very personal consequences. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 88: The X-Files, Unusual Suspects/Detour

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2018 48:26


    We’re still about two months away from The X-Files: Fight the Future,  but it’s already having an effect on the show, as “Unusual Suspects” gives us the Lone Gunmen origin story we didn’t know we needed. Then, “Detour” gives us the singing Scully we didn’t know we needed. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 87: The X-Files, Redux/Redux II

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2018 43:32


    The fifth season of The X-Files kicks off with a two-parter continuation, as “Redux” and “Redux II” find Mulder and Scully dealing with their most personal connection the conspiracy yet. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 86: The X-Files, Demons/Gethsemane

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2018 52:58


    Well, we’ve reached the end of another season, and it’s a very personal end, as “Demons” finds Mulder once again questioning his memories, and “Gethsemane” finds Scully dealing with family matters. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 85: The X-Files, Zero Sum/Elegy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2018 43:03


    Skinner goes off on his own for mysterious reasons, in “Zero Sum”, and we get… SIGH…. another John Shiban episode with “Elegy”. Also! Mitch Pileggi in his underwear. We don’t need to say more. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 84: The X-Files, Synchrony/Small Potatoes

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2018 52:14


    The X-Files finally does a time travel story in “Synchrony”, and Darin Morgan makes a surprise appearance in “Small Potatoes”. Plus! Tuning In is hungry. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 83: The X-Files, Tempus Fugit/Max

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2018 44:13


    The mythology returns once again, and this time, it’s a tight two-parter about alien abductions and the return of old characters, in “Tempus Fugit” and “Max”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 82: The X-Files, Kaddish/Unrequited

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2018 43:48


    We get another X-Files spin on religious mysticism in “Kaddish”, and then we get an X-Files spin on an invisible assassin in “Unrequited”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 81: The X-Files, Never Again/Memento Mori

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2018 48:57


    “Never Again” finds Scully in a rough place emotionally, as “Memento Mori” finds Scully in a rough place physically. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 80: The X-Files, El Mundo Gira/Leonard Betts

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2018 43:35


    “El Mundo Gira” is a much less competent riff on “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space”, whereas “Leonard Betts” is a much more competent riff on “Squeeze”. Also! Scully has cancer, apparently. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 79: The X-Files, Terma/Paper Hearts

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2018 44:24


    The latest mythology two-parter second part, “Terma”, is just another mythology episode. However, “Paper Hearts” is very much a heretical questioning of one of the central mysteries of The X-Files. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 78: The X-Files, Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man/Tunguska

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2018 52:41


    Glen Morgan’s first solo script for The X-Files, “Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man”, raises a lot of questions about the titular characters but doesn’t provide any concrete answers. “Tunguska” is another mythology episode that doesn’t provide any answers. We’re starting to see how you got your reputation, The X-Files. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 77: The X-Files, The Field Where I Died/Sanguinarium

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2018 37:10


    Glen Morgan and James Wong continue to get experimental with “The Field Where I Died”, and in “Sanguinarium” a pair of sisters, Vivian and Valerie Mayhew, (who sadly never wrote for The X-Files again) gives us the ur-X-Files episode. Plus! Is Game of Thrones a good TV show? (Spoiler alert: no.) iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 76: The X-Files, Teliko/Unruhe

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 41:17


    We get an unsatisfying riff on Eugene Tooms, in “Teliko”, and in “Unruhe”, Vince Gilligan finally writes an episode that makes us notice him. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 75: The X-Files, Herrenvolk/Home

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2017 54:01


    Tuning In returns to The X-Files at an interesting point, as the fourth season of the show was the first one that aired on Sunday nights. “Herrenvolk” is basically a reintroduction to all the mythology backstory, and “Home” feels like a gauntlet-throwing episode. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 74: In the Flesh, Series 2, Episode 5/Episode 6

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2017 51:31


    We reach the end of In the Flesh as the show reveals more about Simon, and dramatic events at the end of the series will change things forever. Plus! Is the cliffhanger annoying? iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 73: In the Flesh, Series 2, Episode 3/Episode 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2017 48:44


    We continue our In the Flesh coverage with the middle two episodes of series 2. Watch as Kieran gets his dander up! Marvel at Maxine’s continued villainy! Join us as we ship Philip and Amy! iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 72: In the Flesh, Series 2, Episode 1/Episode 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2017 51:05


    It’s been about two years since the events of the first series of In the Flesh, so surely things must be better in Roarton, right? You’ll just have to listen to find out. Also! Kieran’s father is still really obsessed with Blu-rays. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 71: In the Flesh, Series 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2017 58:20


    We take a short hiatus from The X-Files to talk about the best queer zombie drama ever made (and maybe the only queer zombie drama ever made), In the Flesh. In the three episodes of series 1 we get a modern take on a kitchen sink drama, that takes the rural English countryside’s penchant for voting ...

    Tuning In Episode 70: The X-Files, Wetwired/Talitha Cumi

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2017 56:20


    We’ve reached the end of another season of The X-Files! “Wetwired” is a stealth mythology episode, and “Talitha Cumi” is a straightforward mythology episode, but they both contain more emotion than plot. Plus! What’s next for Tuning In–make sure you listen to the end! iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 69: The X-Files, Avatar/Quagmire

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2017 51:36


    The X-Files gives us its first Skinner episode, with “Avatar”, and it’s one of Eric’s favorite episodes of the show. Then, in “Quagmire”, the writer of “Revelations”, Kim Newton, does her spin on a Darin Morgan episode. Also! Eric really wants a red raincoat. Too bad he no longer lives in Portland. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 68: The X-Files, Hell Money/Jose Chung’s From Outer Space

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2017 59:25


    We visit the Chinatown of Vancouv–we mean, San Francisco, in “Hell Money”. Then, Darin Morgan gives us his last episode (well, until 2015) with “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space”. Plus! Eric really wants a piece of sweet potato pie. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 67: The X-Files, Pusher/Teso Dos Bichos

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2017 41:57


    Vince Gilligan pens his second X-FIles episode, “Pusher”, and it’s… okay? Then, in “Teso Dos Bichos”, the show falls down a well. Plus! Richard is very excited for “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 66: The X-Files, Piper Maru/Apocrypha

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2017 46:10


    We get another mythology two-parter, but this one is less about shocking revelations and more about emotional growth, as Mulder and Scully work to figure out the events of “Piper Maru” and “Apocrypha.” iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 65: The X-Files, Syzygy/Grotesque

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2017


    Chris Carter does his own version of a Darin Morgan episode with “Sygyzy”, and Howard Gordon does his own version of a season one episode with “Grotesque”. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 64: The X-Files, Revelations/War of the Coprophages

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2017 48:52


    “Revelations” is a spiritual successor (literally) to season one’s “Beyond the Sea”, as Mulder and Scully swap places. Then, Darin Morgan returns with “War of the Coprophages”, a delightfully deep and goofy episode about killer cockroaches. Yes, you read that right. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 63: The X-Files, Nisei/731

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2017 47:52


    The X-Files gives us the rapidly-becoming traditional midseason mythology two-parter with “Nisei” and “731”, and it also doesn’t give us much new information or answer any questions, but it’s certainly gripping! iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 62: The X-Files, The Walk/Oubliette

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2017 45:21


    The X-Files gets postmodern this week in “The Walk” and “Oubliette”, two episode of the show that are more interested in being about The X-Files than about their plot. But hey, we’re extremely okay with this! iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 61: The X-Files, The List/2Shy

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2017 46:40


    The X-Files gets somewhat political this week in “The List”, and in “2Shy”, you whippersnappers that listen to this podcast get to experience the internet circa 1996. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 60: The X-Files, D.P.O./Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2017 53:50


    A young Jack Black and a young Giovanni Ribisi guest star in “D.P.O.”, and a older Peter Boyle guest stars in “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”. Also! What is the best pie? iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 59: The X-Files, The Blessing Way/Paper Clip

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2017 32:07


    We kick off season three of The X-Files by talking about the two (three?) parter “The Blessing Way” and “Paper Clip”. It’s exciting, dramatic, a little cheesy, but leaves us really excited for this season. iTunes RSS

    Tuning In Episode 58: The X-Files, Anasazi

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2017 32:07


    We reach the end of season two of The X-Files with “Anasazi”, an alien conspiracy episode that quickly spirals out of control in the most fun way possible. Plus! Who is Skinner, anyway? iTunes RSS

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