After Carter and Wong and Darrin's brother write the serious episodes, in walks Darrin with Size 12 Doc Martin Steel Toed Boots to stomp it all down.
Last Year's "Mulder and Skully meet the Weremonster" was more like the fantasy MillenniuM Episodes Darrin had written, where it seems like we are watching from a Dream state.
This episode however, really futzes with our sense of reality. Was it called Kool-Aid or Flavor-Ade? Is it really called The Mandala Effect, or something else?
What is amusing is that there are people in this country that are living in the Mandala effect right now, where things that are happening all around them, are not happening. Where the smallest Inauguration Day crowd ever is translated to the largest ever, even after photographic evidence refutes it. And now, where the State of the Union was watched by the fewest people ever, somehow this translates into the highest Neilson Ratings ever. The Biggest! The Best! In reality the smallest, and worst.
People like to wrap themselves up in whatever fiction they fancy, I know I do. But in my case, I know how to separate my fancies from my facts.
And we either have a record amount of people accepting the "alternate facts", or we have a record number of people who don't exist, whose numbers have been inflated digitally, doing so.
In today's world, I've seen things happen right in front of me, and then have it denied it ever happened by people who were with me when I watched it happen. In today's world, a whole church congregation has a pandemic Measles outbreak, and their leader then tells them to NOT get Flu Shots.
And I think this kind of behavior is what's being targeted here. People will believe a lie is the truth, if enough people parrot that lie. And then, when challenged, they yell "Fake News".
There are two things happening in this country right now: An unprecedented attack on our first amendment rights and on the news media, and an unprecedented amount of people yelling "Fake News! Fake News".
This is why I respect Darrin more than any other X-Files writer, nothing is sacred to him, all is fair game. And by exposing our idiocies, he causes us to think about it.