If you're a massive X-Files fan eagerly awaiting the brand new series, you may want to look away now.

Early reviews for the return of the classic '90s sci-fi series have been mixed at best. In our review we called it a "disjointed exercise in nostalgia", and that appears to be one of the most positive things people have said about Mulder and Scully's comeback:

DIGITAL SPY

"It's not that the show isn't trying to move with the times – Joel McHale gets a lengthy monologue which tries none-too-subtly to evoke post-Snowden paranoia – but trying to tack fears about data privacy onto an alien invasion conspiracy feels forced.

"There's every chance The X-Files' comeback run will improve, now that the exposition and ice-breaking are out of the way. But this clumsy first episode leads you to wonder whether, in a wildly over-saturated TV landscape, there's room for a show which feels like little more than a beloved relic."

Ed Araquel Fox

VARIETY

"There are always elements of crass commercialism baked into the DNA of revivals — nobody dusts off Full House for the high art of it — but perhaps an even more nagging sense of reassembling everyone just for the money in Fox's joyless The X-Files.

"Brilliantly promoted for months, this six-episode reunion, premiering with a kick-start from the NFC Championship game, is virtually assured of attracting a sizeable audience, at least initially. But based on the premiere, the harsh truth in here is that it's as if creator Chris Carter and his collaborators have forgotten what people liked about the show."

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"In messy, tedious form, the revered sci-fi series starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson limps back for a limited run on Fox.

"Maybe treason can be averted if the five episodes after this will improve greatly. Maybe those five will reinvigorate the characters and the concept (and the actors). But maybe sometimes its better to leave things alone, to let them be about their time and place. Unearthing them for further exploration just proves you can't go back again, you can't recreate the original magic — and you run the risk of raising the question of whether things were so magical in the first place."

Ed Araquel Fox

INDIEWIRE

"The use of a pseudo-found-footage technique to illustrate Mulder's conspiratorial rants comes off as purely amateurish, a shocking misstep for a show whose style was always one of its strongest points (even if Chris Carter was never one of its best directors).

"Fans can pray it gets better — and the revival will, like the series itself, include several different types of episodes, including some by old favourites Glen Morgan and James Wong. But the brevity of the revival's run leaves little time for improvement, and little sign of the commitment you would have hoped the stars, or the network, would bring to it."

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