ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to The X-Files: 25 Years Inside Every Season & Film

In 1993 The X-Files took the pop-culture fringe into prime time. It absorbed a galaxy of offbeath influences—B-movie horror, trippy pulp sci-fi, urban legend, Atomic Age paranoia, post-Watergate paranoia— and refracted them through the lens of the procedural. The show's legacy is still growing, like a tantalizing truth spreading further out there.