The X-Files

TV Show · 1993

14+ Ages 12-14

Editor

Excellent

TV-14

Creator: Chris Carter

Cast: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi

Mystery Sci-Fi & Fantasy Crime

What's the Story?

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.

Content Ratings

What's in the title & why it matters

Language Mild

1/5

Profanity is exceptionally mild (mostly 90s network television-approved slurs like "damn" or "hell").

Drinking, Drugs & Smoking Mild

2/5

Violence & Scariness Moderate

3/5

Punches, stabbings, and point-blank executions occur. However, the violence is rarely glorified; it is usually frantic, dark, and treated with gravity.

Sex, Romance & Nudity Mild

1/5

Romance is mostly limited to intense eye contact, hand-holding, and rare emotional embraces.