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.