ACROSS
1 Zen garden
growth
5 Arthur of tennis
9 Toss back and
forth, as words
14 __ and for all
15 Fishing line
holder
16 Be wild about
17 What buck
passers “play”
19 JCPenney
competitor
20 Former baseball
commissioner
Bud
21 Holiday song first
popularized by
Eartha Kitt
23 Hits gently
25 Arrest
26 Maiden name
intro
27 Holiday threshold
28 Weeping,
perhaps
30 In disagreement
33 __ meat
34 “A bit of talcum /
Is always
walcum” poet
37 God of love
38 You might stand
pat in it
41 Auth. unknown
43 Back of the neck
44 Navig. tool
47 Some stoves
49 Tailor
51 Insistent knock
52 Drill insert
53 “Mazel __!”
56 Italian deli
sandwich
58 Navy stunt pilot
62 One with
wanderlust
63 Countesses’
spouses
64 Drill sergeant’s
directive ... and,
literally, what the
ends of 17-, 21-,
38- and 58-
Across can each
have
66 Rhubarb unit
67 Island near
Corsica
68 Masterful tennis
server
69 Monica of tennis
70 Ultra-fast jets
71 Brewed
beverages

DOWN
1 Many a character
in “The
Godfather”
2 Temporarily not
working
3 Sold for a quick
profit, as tickets
4 Loading dock
trucks
5 Chile neighbor:
Abbr.
6 Salty waters
7 Muscle beach
dude
8 Court colleague
of Ruth and
Sonia
9 The Crimson Tide
10 Very little
11 “Impossible”
12 Signs of
prolonged
drought
13 “I completely
agree!”
18 Showbiz clashers
22 “Check back
later,” in a sked
24 Grandma
29 Light before
sunup
31 Concert shirt
32 Bobby of hockey
35 Mother’s Day
indulgence

36 Short plane trips
38 Crime family
leader
39 Genetic letters
40 “__ your chin up!”
41 “Have we started
yet?”
42 Without additives
44 Pained expression
45 It’ll cure all ills
46 Little web
masters
47 Convent
overseer

48 LIRR stop
50 Desire
54 Fairy tale
baddies
55 Bridal shop buys
57 Jack Sprat’s
restriction
59 InStyle
competitor
60 Poses a 
question
61 Pride parade
letters
65 Owns

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‘The X-Files’ return 
short of high hopes

By CHLOE GILKE

Daily Arts Writer

Fourteen years after its series 

finale, “The X-Files” is back on 
FOX, and it’s … well, I wish I could 
say it’s great. 
Between 
the 

deafening hype 
and the murky 
track record of 
series 
creator 

Chris Carter’s 
late-period cre-
ative 
choices, 

I adjusted my 
expectations 
for the revival 
series 
to 
be 

accordingly 
low. Even if the rebooted “The 
X-Files” were just a welcome 
reunion between me and my two 
all-time favorite characters, with 
nothing else redeemable, I told 
myself I’d be satisfied.

I wish seeing Scully and Mul-

der was enough. “The X-Files” has 
some addictive alien substance in 
its DNA that makes it irresistible 
to fans and the perfect receptacle 
for cult worship, which makes 
it impossible to write about the 
show without bringing myself 
and my experience with it into the 
fold. While I love “The X-Files” to 
death, I’ve always kept a Scully-
esque skeptic’s attitude and a criti-

cal eye toward the flaws that have 
been there since episode one. The 
show is wildly uneven, with some 
of the cases and episodes deserv-
ing a spot in the Great TV Canon, 
and others so forgettable they 
burn themselves into your brain 
(I’m looking at you, “First Person 
Shooter”).

“My Struggle” doesn’t fall into 

either of these two categories. It 
contains all of “The X-Files” ’s 
most dangerous trappings, yet also 
maintains vestiges of what made 
the show so great two decades 
ago. The episode’s intro sequence, 
featuring resident supernatural 
enthusiast Fox Mulder (David 
Duchovny, “Californication”) nar-
rating the events of the previous 
nine seasons, is creative shorthand 
meant to catch new viewers up to 
speed. While stock photo images 
and newspaper clippings flash by, 
Mulder clues the audience in on 
his fascination with aliens, but 
also hints at the psychological 
ennui that will be revealed later 
in the episode. As pictures of UFO 
crashes and monstrous aliens flip 
across the screen, Mulder sounds 
bored and disengaged. He sounds 
a far cry from the passionate zealot 
that fans remember from the pre-
vious series: “We must ask our-
selves … Are they really a hoax?” 
He doesn’t sound convinced. Just 
like that, the viewer’s curiosity is 

piqued, and Duchovny has sent us 
on a mission to figure out what’s 
wrong with Mulder.

Sure enough, Mulder has grown 

depressed and worse for the wear 
since the X-Files division closed. 
Without his passions or his case 
partner to guide him, Mulder’s 
belief is waning. Duchovny is 
game for this graying and cyni-
cal character bent, but he keeps 
a spark of the bright old Mulder 
in his performance. This spark 
intensifies whenever he shares 
the screen with his former part-
ner, Dana Scully (Gillian Ander-
son, “The Fall”). In the years since 
we’ve last seen her, Scully also 
appears to have grown colder and 
more cynical (though this might 
be the aftermath of Anderson’s 
brilliantly detached “Hannibal” 
performance). Thankfully, the two 
jump right back into their gently 
combative relationship, and Mul-
der sets a million ’shipper hearts 
aflame when he cracks a sly smile 
and tells Scully “Don’t pretend I’m 
going alone.”

But even great performers can’t 

save bad writing. The miniseries’ 
new case is frustratingly scattered 
across the episode’s 43-minute 
runtime. 
Political 
conspiracist 

talk show host Tad O’Malley (Joel 
McHale, “Community”) inspires 
Mulder and Scully to investigate 
Sveta (Annet Mahendru, “The 
Americans”) ’s claims that she 
was abducted by aliens, has alien 
DNA and had aliens hole-punch 
circles in her abdomen. Despite 
Mahendru’s best efforts, Sveta is 
a ridiculous character, made even 
more so by the fact that Mulder is 
convinced she is the “key to every-
thing” and just a few minutes of 
her testimony is enough to make 
him question his entire worldview. 
The introductions feel rushed, and 
the episode doesn’t spend enough 
time dissecting Mulder’s weak-
ened beliefs or desperation to jus-
tify this sudden switch.

The episode also suffers from 

some horrific dialogue writ-
ing and direction — bad even by 
the standards of a show that has 
never been known for its subtle 
character work. In one scene that 
takes place on Mulder’s porch, 
Scully and her former partner 
utter every “X-Files” poster epi-
thet within the span of two min-
utes: “You want to believe! You 
so badly want to believe!” “I do 
believe!” “The truth is out there, 
Scully, and Tad O’Malley is gonna 
broadcast it!” As Mulder and 
Scully trade fan-service quotes, 
they grip the other’s shoulders 
and shout with their faces inch-
es from one another. Of course, 
Sveta is standing right at the door 
watching them, and interrupts to 
ask if everything is OK. I laughed 
out loud. It’s not OK.

I really want to believe that 

“The X-Files” will get back on 
track and deliver five great epi-
sodes after this middling pre-
miere. I want to believe that the 
reboot isn’t back solely for nos-
talgia’s sake, for money or for 
network ratings. I want Mulder 
to make sense again, for the Ciga-
rette Smoking Man to scare me 
shitless and for the story to jus-
tify the fact that “The X-Files” 
was pulled back out of the cabinet 
drawer and resurrected from the 
dead. “My Struggle” doesn’t quite 
live up to the heights set by previ-
ous seasons or merit the reboot on 
its own terms, but it’s worth hold-
ing out hope that the show will 
justify its own existence. After all, 
we’ve still got five episodes — and 
the truth is out there.

FOX

“Aren’t you a little short for an alien hunter?”

C

The X-Files

Season 10 
Premiere

Mondays at 

8 p.m.

FOX

‘Angie Tribeca’ is 
almost too crazy

Rashida Jones 

helms a send-up of 

crime shows

By SAM ROSENBERG

Daily Arts Writer

Considering the abundance 

of crime-based shows on Amer-
ican television, it seems almost 
implausible 
that networks 
keep creating 
more. In fact, 
most of these 
programs, 
such as “CSI” 
and “Law & 
Order,” are so 
common 
and 

similar 
that 

their 
closed 

narrative sto-
rylines, suspenseful plots and 
tough as nails protagonists have 
become 
predictable 
tropes. 

With TBS’s newest comedy 
“Angie Tribeca,” these shows 
receive the ultimate satirical 
treatment, though its conflict-
ing cleverness and stupidity 
come with some repercussions. 

Created by Steve Carell (“The 

Big Short”) and his wife Nancy 
Carell (“Bridesmaids”), “Angie 
Tribeca” is an ordinary buddy 
cop show disguised as a surreal, 
absurdist parody more in the 
vein of “The Naked Gun” and 
“Police Squad!” than “Brook-
lyn Nine-Nine.” It matches 
the traits of any other crime 
show, from the cookie-cutter 
characters to the over-the-top 
cases. The only difference is 
“Angie Tribeca” is incredibly 
self-aware of its own exagger-
ated nature and offers several 
obvious references to crime cli-
chés, such as its title sequence: 
a dizzyingly, fast-paced mon-
tage backed by the sound of a 
screaming man.

But while “Angie Tribeca” 

can be overwhelmingly droll at 

times, it contains a plethora of 
brilliant attributes, especially 
with Rashida Jones as its win-
ning lead. Following up her 
role as Ann Perkins on NBC’s 
critically acclaimed “Parks & 
Recreation,” Jones plays the 
title character, a no-nonsense 
female 
cop 
archetype 
who 

retains both an unwavering 
conviction to seek justice and a 
wacky personality. Think Oliv-
ia Benson from “Law & Order: 
SVU,” but younger and sillier. 
Her partner is Jay Geils (Hayes 
MacArthur, “She’s Out of My 
League”), a handsome male cop 
archetype who is also just as 
strange and committed to fight-
ing crime as Tribeca is. The two 
bring down bad guys together 
and form a friendly, ambiguous 
relationship, which is typical of 
most crime shows. Regardless 
of how easily they draw from 
other leading roles in crime 
shows, Jones and MacArthur 
have actual great comedic and 
romantic chemistry.

Like its two leads, most of 

the characters in “Angie Tribe-
ca” poke fun at crime show 
stereotypes 
but 
have 
their 

own distinctively odd quirks. 
Jere Burns (“Justified”) is the 
hard-around-the-edges LAPD 
lieutenant Chet Atkins; Alfred 
Molina (“Love Is Strange”) 
plays the LAPD’s forensics 
pathologist Dr. Edelweiss, who 
starts out each episode physi-
cally disabled and then seems 
perfectly fine in the end; Deon 
Cole (“Black-ish”) is DJ Tanner, 
a fierce cop with a German shep-

herd sidekick. Along with the 
cast is an exhaustingly talented 
list of cameos that includes Lisa 
Kudrow 
(“Friends”), 
James 

Franco (“Palo Alto”), Adam 
Scott (“Parks & Rec”), Sarah 
Chalke (“Scrubs”) and ventrilo-
quist Jeff Dunham (“Dinner for 
Schmucks”).

“Angie Tribeca” ’s reliance 

on satirizing conventions of 
crime shows is both its big-
gest strength and weakness. 
Many of the show’s gags are 
hysterical 
and 
gut-busting, 

though they can easily become 
tiresome after watching them 
over and over again. A perfect 
example is a recurring visual 
gag of the Ford logo in the pilot 
episode, which appears in every 
scene with a Ford car and even 
some scenes that don’t. The 
overtly obvious product place-
ment seems funny, but it’s like 
repeating the same joke every 
10 minutes — it may sound 
hilarious at first, but when 
told too many times, it’s essen-
tially beating a dead horse. Of 
course, that’s not to say that 
there aren’t moments of fan-
tastic wit, the strongest being 
its spoof of classic crime show 
conventions, such as dramatic 
flashbacks, over-the-top action 
sequences and insanely wild 
cases. One delves into the mys-
terious death of a wedding cake 
baker and another investigates 
a missing painting of a thumb.

Instead of using the conven-

tional week-by-week episode 
format, TBS showed the entire 
first season of “Angie Tribeca” 
in a back-to-back marathon. 
Though it made for an inter-
esting marketing move, the 
show is much easier to watch 
in smaller doses. At its worst, 
“Angie Tribeca” is an aggravat-
ing half-hour comedy that’s too 
repetitive for its own good. But 
at its best, “Angie Tribeca” is an 
intelligent, amusing satire that 
boasts a view on how the crime 
genre can be both captivating 
and utterly outrageous. 

B

Angie 
Tribeca 

Series 
Premiere

Mondays at 9 p.m.

TBS

TV REVIEW
TV REVIEW

The crime 

genre is both 

captivating and 

outrageous.

