Over the course of the last week or so, I've been bingewatching Netflix's Daredevil miniseries, with an occasional Season 4 X-Files episode thrown in for good measure. Through the 13-episode run of Daredevil, I watched Home, Teliko, The Field Where I Died, Sanguinarium, Musings of a CSM, and Tunguska. This is not what I'd call a "Murderer's Row" of X-Files episodes, but there are some stellar highs here, particularly in Home and Musings. Watching these two shows in sequence as I did, certain parallels and divergences between the two shows gradually made themselves apparent.First, like every episodic drama that has popped up in the past couple of decades, Daredev​il appears to owe a few things to the X-Files, consciously or otherwise. The most apparent of these is the color palette -- relentless darkness abounds. Daytime scenes are few and far between, and our leads appear visibly uncomfortable in the light of day. It's as though they feel that the quixotic nature of their quest (revealing corruption city-wide in one case, and worldwide in the other) will be laid bare if not under the cover of night. Both Murdock and Mulder take it upon themselves to strike out into the darkness and reveal to the world what lies there. Though incalculable forces are stacked against them, and their dearest friends continually warn them off their course, they seem to feel an instinctive compulsion to strive against the darkness in their lives.