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It can’t possibly just be dawning upon me “there’s a lot of it about”—as Waters said about being down and out, but the same schisms apply—nor that the machinations of the bad guys (including crypto!) in fictional settings where even demons appear to be more than hallucinations pale in comparison to what’s happening in the real world. And while the utter banality of misbegotten intentions doesn’t make them any less horrific, I can’t rely on the onslaught of post-Roe news or congressional hearings like I can the annual weekly drama.
I insist that there are parallels with X-Files sister show Millennium—leading man with visions, a psychobabbler to try and explain them away (alright, Mrs. Black played a more supportive role than that), the inevitable Christian eschatology—but while network television of old had twenty-plus episodes a season to fill, often with frustrating excursions into the latter, isn’t it a coincidence that the then-INS would also detain a Chinese woman with preternatural insight?

Tagged politics, TV, vs. real life