Before Vince Gilligan defined modern television with the story of a high school teacher turned drug kingpin in Breaking Bad, he was helping to invent modern television on the revolutionary 90s sci-fi mystery series The X-Files. A show chronicling the adventures of Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny) and Dana Skully (played by Gillian Anderson), FBI agents who specialize in the unexplained, The X-Files told individual stories that ran the gamut from dark and disturbing, insightful and profound, to practically ridiculous, while stringing together overall mythology that held the whole thing together. Along with writers like Darin Morgan and his brother Glen Morgan, many of Gilligan’s episodes are heralded by fans as some of the best ever produced for the series. While many of them would have all the intense drama and conflict we would come to know with Breaking Bad, they can also be incredibly funny. Since the premise of the show was so simple and strong, it allowed brilliant minds like Gilligan’s to operate untethered by the norms of traditional television dramas.
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