After a mostly disappointing tenth season in 2016, Chris Carter came back and redeemed himself. Instead of just six episodes, he delivered ten. And this time he provided a good mixture of standalone material and episodes that pushed forward the overarching plot -- even helping to bring things to a nice end in the finale.
2018 gave us more memorable episodes: the return of Langly, a hilarious exploration of the Mandela Effect, and one of my favorites of the season where automated machines went after Mulder and Scully.
Carter also (mostly) successfully removed my complaints from season 10 -- totally undoing that rushed and terrible ending (it turned out to be only a vision of one possible future -- Cockadoodie!!), and bringing us back to more believable plots.
And, the end of season 11 was somewhat satisfactory. It serves as both a series end and a possibility for a continuation -- just enough to have us wonder what comes next, but not too much -- so we can have a better sense of closure.
Will there be more episodes? As of now, it appears the answer is no. Carter would prefer not to do it without Gillian Anderson, the franchise is now owned by Disney, and some other forces appear to be killing the chances of a season 12. I'm not too disappointed, but would definitely watch if it came back. There's certainly plenty of juicy stuffs to pull from in the last couple of years!
Anyway, I enjoyed 2018, and until I hear otherwise, it feels like a great conclusion.
Chris Carter, thanks for all the memories!
