Todd VanDerWerff is the critic-at-large for Vox and the first TV editor of The A.V. Club. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Grantland.
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In 1993, Fox debuted a strange new television show called The X-Files. Little did anyone suspect that the series would become one of the network's biggest hits-and change the landscape of television in the process. Now, on the occasion of the show's twent... SEE MORE