![]() ![]() My friend Liz, who shared her classic Twilight Zone episodes on VHS with me and knew my penchant for quirky TV like Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure, casually mentioned that I should check out this show on Friday nights called The X-Files. A few days after the premiere, this story about two friends obsessed with the show started coming to me, and I started writing it down as quickly as I could.īut if we’re being completely accurate, this obsession – and this story – really started back in the early spring of 1995, during my junior year of high school. Despite the fact that this new X-Files movie wasn’t the franchise’s greatest cinematic achievement, its effect on my psyche was downright Proustian. The last time I’d spent a Friday night alone with Mulder and Scully, I was 19. It had started a couple of weeks before, in June of 2008, when I’d gone to see the new X-Files movie on opening night. It was growing every day at an alarming (dare I say supernatural) rate. A quick trip through the express line and I was the proud owner of a two-DVD set called The X-Files: Revelations, the “Essential Guide to The X-Files Movie,” featuring “8 Critical Episodes Handpicked by the Series Creator.” Critical Episodes! So what if I had no money to spare and I’d already seen almost every episode of The X-Files at least twice? This was critical.Īctually, the only thing that was truly critical was this new story I was writing. No way – no – I said no – what are you doing? Put that down! I’m not kidding!īut it was too late. No way is that DVD going into this shopping cart. I was trying to talk myself out of the inevitable. I was frozen in the aisle next to the Home Electronics section, beside a pop-up kiosk full of DVDs. I don’t know why I even went into Target in the first place, but it was too late to turn back now. In the aftermath, both of them will discover what it means to be friends, to be family, to be in love, and to be themselves. But when Lula finds out that Rory, who’s gay, has been secretly dating his middle-aged boss, their friendship comes apart. They’re best friends who share everything from their “messed-up parent situation” to their obsessive love of The X-Files. In Weird Girl and What’s His Name by Meagan Brothers, Rory and Lula are definitely not the cool kids, but they don’t care.
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