![]() ![]() Not to mention a shot from the baby's POV before it's over. I mean there's a newborn baby buried alive in the teaser. From its inception, the episode presented controversy six ways to Sunday. Morgan and Wong were returning home to The X-Files after a failed series, determined to take the show to some unidentifiable next level while back in their family of origin and Manners, well, he had longed to direct the hell out of a real horror story - this was the consciousness behind 'Home'. Glen Morgan and James Wong are the responsible party for this script, by the way. Broadcast in 1996, 'Home' perhaps stands out because of its fantastic allegory for the way our own world would change irrevocably. And maybe most profound, the conceit that these two disparate worlds cannot sit side by side for another minute longer. The sheriff's wife, a pile of scrappy kids who just want a good sandlot game, a police station where the only practical autopsy room is a closet, and not a gun or locked door in sight. Peacock, their mother, a quadruple amputee confined to a board with wheels under the bed, determined to preserve the bloodline with any means necessary.Īlso existing in Home, PA, Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney. Barbaric, brutal and driven by the most base desires they still can't hold a candle to the aberration of Mrs. A world where burly brothers share a father who's their brother. ![]() In fact, Mulder and Scully are so unaffected by the utter gruesomeness of the Peacocks and their way of life that it allows us safe entry into an unthinkable world. ![]() Sometimes it's merely a facial expression ('ELVIS PRESLEY DEAD AT 42') so inappropriately appropriately placed that our joy actually comes from the irony of the well-timed wit more than the gag itself. In fact, a quip from either one comes at the most perfect moment and then the next one after that and so on. But this time Mulder and Scully are our proxy to enter this house of horrors and they are so unafraid, they're nonchalant. The blanket over this entire episode being that same murky, twisted, dark-even-in-the-daylight web of family secrets so popular in horror movies of yore. Mine? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (which I saw for the first time at age 11). I'm supposing we all went, individually, to our first exposure to any number of possible stories that embody the concept of the Peacock family when we saw this episode. 'Home' also swiftly and effectively constructs vivid iconography that leaves us with enduring images while still fitting well-within The X-Files framework. It explores Mulder and Scully's innermost feelings about parenthood, comfort and security. ‘Home’ takes an absolutely outstanding mix of horror tropes and weaves into them real and varied themes about the perversion of family values and the fading American Dream and how human nature trumps everything - for all time. But it did all of those things and also so much more. Case: A deceased newborn with multiple abnormalities is found in a shallow grave in an idyllic rural town.Īmazing that ‘Home’, a scant 44 minutes of television, could warrant the first TV-MA in TV rating history, cause the FOX network to ban any further broadcasts of it (for a long long time) and become a darling of both critics and fans. ![]()
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