# Best X Files season? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-x-files-season/155933 "2003-02-18T18:43:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-x-files-season/155933/1 "2003-02-18T18:43:27Z")
I’m going overseas for work for a while and I want to buy a season of the X Files on DVD to watch during my down time. Which season should I get? To be honest, I got a little bored with the later seasons and the conspiracy theory stuff. I liked the more freaky Twilight Zone kind of episodes. Are there any where Scully has to go under cover as a hooker?😉 ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-x-files-season/155933/2 "2003-02-18T18:49:53Z")
Season Two, I’d say. ---
**Author:** ![jeevmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-x-files-season/155933/3 "2003-02-18T19:29:23Z")
Toss up between Seasons 2 and 3, but I’d give the slight edge to Season 3. Several good two story arcs, plus all of the great Darin Morgan episodes. Season 2 suffers from lack of Scully-time, which I know advanced the plot (back when they cared about those things), but also leads to really bad vampire episodes. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-x-files-season/155933/4 "2003-02-18T21:46:55Z")
Thanks guys, season 3 it is.