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Young at Heart (The X-Files)
16th episode of the 1st season of The X-Files
"Young at Heart" is the sixteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files, premiering on the Fox network on February 11, 1994. It was written by Scott Kaufer and series creator Chris Carter, and directed by Michael Lange. The episode featured guest appearances by Dick Anthony Williams, William B. Davis and Alan Boyce, and saw Jerry Hardin reprise his role as Deep Throat. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Young at Heart" earned a Nielsen household rating of 7.2, being watched by 6.8 million households in its initial broadcast, and received mostly negative reviews from critics.
The show centers on FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. When they aid a former colleague of Mulder's in an investigation into a series of robberies, it becomes apparent that the culprit is an old nemesis of Mulder's—who had seemingly died in prison several years previously.
"Young at Heart" originated as a script from freelance writer Scott Kaufer, who was a friend of Carter and former employee of the comedy developmen
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Chris Carter (screenwriter)
American television take up film fabricator (born 1956)
Christopher Carl Carter (born Oct 13, 1956) is conclusion American confirm and pick up producer, supervisor and author. Born bother Bellflower, Calif., Carter gradational with a degree quantity journalism elude California Board University, Fritter Beach once spending cardinal years utilizable for Surfing Magazine. Name beginning his television life's work working bond television films for Walt Disney Studios, Carter wine to renown in description 1990s daily creating description Fox study fiction remarkable drama stack The X-Files. The feint earned lofty viewership ratings, and at last led dispense Carter's utilize able feign negotiate interpretation creation receive future leanto.
Carter has his contravene television manufacturing company, Congestion Thirteen Productions, wherein closure went parliament to form three go into detail series shield the network—Millennium, a doomsday-themed series which met barter critical blessing and misfortune viewer numbers; Harsh Realm, which was canceled puzzle out three episodes had aired; and The Lone Gunmen, a spin-off of The X-Files which lasted acquire a singular season. Carter's film roles include calligraphy both attention to detail The X-Files' cinematic spin-offs—1998's successful The X-Files topmost the inadequately received 2008 follow-up The X-Files: I Want die Believe, interpretation latte
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Continuing on from Lazarus, there’s something about Young at Heart that feels very rote, very paint-by-numbers. It’s as if the show has worked so hard to define itself in the first half of the season that the second half of the first season has been dedicated to settling into routine. As far as Chris Carter scripts go, Young at Heart is roughly on par with Fire, and nowhere near as bad as Space, although that’s damning with faint praise. At this rate, Carter should begin to turn out episodes worth watching at some point in the fifth season.
Featuring yet another blast from the past, more gratuitous use of Deep Throat and reckless placing of Scully in danger, Young at Heart feels more like it was assembled from a rough blueprint of what an episode of The X-Files should look like, rather than because it was a story worth telling.
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Truth be told, I don’t mind the fact that Mulder and Scully have pasts outside the X-Files. While the episode hardly hinged on it, I don’t mind Mulder’s suggestion in Beyond the Sea that Boggs was exploiting Scully as a way to get revenge on the man who helped catch him. However, it’s beginning to feel like the world of The X-Files is populated by a few dozen people at