Chris Carter's paranormal mystery series "The X-Files" wasn't just one of the best TV shows of the 1990s , but it came to define the era. "The X-Files" was produced after the end of the Cold War, and while the United States was enjoying a new period of seeming economic prosperity and eerie international peace. This period, however, made many of us suspicious. Rather than focus our enmity on mysterious foes overseas, we turned inward, looking at our own institutions with suspicion. The FBI's malfeasance became a point of interest, and "The X-Files" posited that the world was rife with aliens, cryptids, and vampires ... and that the FBI spends considerable resources hiding them from the public.

Agent Mulder (David Duchovny) was the open-minded explorer, wanting to find the truth about the

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