Monday

Monday was a great, well-done episode. Yeah, yeah everyone knows they spoofed Groundhog Day and that episode of the Twilight Zone--but it still managed to be an enjoyable, light-hearted episode with a heart-stopping opening sequence for first time viewers.

This episode was interesting to watch just because of Mulder's reaction to doing basically the same thing every day. Watching his impatience grow is something to smile about because everyone can relate to reliving the same Monday over and over again. "Monday" managed to hold your attention by never repeating EXACTLY the same day but throwing in some minor changes that kept your interest.

Great storyline, great acting, lots of fun. 8/10

I always love seeing the Groundhog Day trope as an episode in a TV series

A take on the butterfly effect phenomenon, where the smallest of decisions can change a multitude of events. It's well written and hard to guess what exactly will happen next.

Monday was an enjoyable episode to a certain point. I don't know exactly what parts specifically bothered me so I will focus on what I liked after I say one thing: the girl that was stuck in the day was annoying.

So things I liked about this episode. I liked that each repeat of the day was not exactly the same. This made it so that rather than just showing the same scenes over and over again we actually got to see the actors do multiple takes of the same. I thought it was funny that on the third day Mulder seemed a little more impatient than previously like "ya ya we already did this lets get it done right this time." And frankly who hasn't had a Monday like this? Today being Monday I can say that if I was stuck in a recurring loop where every day was Monday I would probably kill myself. This was an enjoyable episode to watch simply because of David Duchovny. I give it 7/10.

Mulder wakes up, to a busted waterbed, and a routine day is disturbed by a young woman, who warns him not to go into The Bank.

After the slightly comical start, the episode takes quite a serious turn, it becomes one of the most memorable, and in truth, one of the best I've seen so far.

As has been mentioned in other reviews, it definitely has a Groundbreaking Day vibe to it, but if course it's given an X Files twist. What I really enjoyed, was the fact that events aren't explained or explored, they just are, the situation is intriguing, it's a nice change up.

I think we're all aware of where that waterbed came from, there is no way that Mulder would have treated himself to one of those, they're great though.

10/10.