Welcome to The eX-Files, a Beyond Buffering podcast where hosts Jenny Owen Youngs and Kristin Russo cover The X-Files one episode at a time, spoiler free.

The first television episode in history that Kristin refused to watch a second time!! We've got some bugs, we've got some escaped prisoners, we've got some pustules (which we nearly exclusively refer to as rainbows so that we could survive the conversation), and we've got Chris Carter saying that the "look of this episode is wonderful." Ahhh, yes, 'tis The X-Files S2E22: "F. Emasculata."

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.35/5 Chances the Men Who Escaped Are Infected -- and a bonus GROSS Ranking of 5 out of 5 I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE ITs

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Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson

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