What the corpus says about The X-Files (1993)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The X-Files (1993) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The X-Files (1993) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The X-Files · lineage · Madsen and Helgenberger could be Mulder and Scully in a Species TV series. · "you could talk me into Madson and Helgenberger being like Mulder and Scully"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:03:03 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ The X-Files · lineage · The abandoned-office SHIELD bunker is like an X-Files episode. · "X-Files has a lot of episodes like this where they're like, what's this abandoned office"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 1:13:13 · Gillian Anderson (0.90)] Gillian Anderson ↔ The X-Files · career · Anderson's iconic status comes from the X-Files, which is why her casting works as iconography. · "whether that's because of, you know, it, X-Files being an iconic show"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Mimic · programming · Double-feature pick: Mimic, the killer-cockroach movie from a couple of years later. · "I had mimic, the nearest Sorvino movie that came out a couple years later."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Species ↔ Amanda and the Alien · programming · Double-feature pick: a 1995 Cinemax-style movie about an alien learning its body and having sex. · "There's a movie called Amanda and the Alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:16:47 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · programming · Fury is in charge of SHIELD only in this film and Avengers; afterward mostly cameos. · "So this is only the only other movie where Fury is like in charge of S.E.L.D. and kind of just like in the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:29:05 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Under the Skin · programming · Proposed as a double feature, but it is an art film so Van upgrades it. · "Under the skin, as in Scarlett Johansson?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:33 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Agents of S.H.I.L.E.L.D. · programming · The TV show had to stall its whole first season because the film's Hydra reveal could not be tipped. · "Of course, the 1st season of SHIELD began in 2013 and had to essentially stall for almost its entire 1st season because they knew that this was coming, but they couldn't tip it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Species ↔ Congo · theme · Species belongs to a 90s subgenre the speaker calls scientist fiction, alongside Congo, Outbreak, Sneakers, Sphere and Mimic. · "Um, so it's a little bit sci-fi, a little bit adventury, but Congo, outbreak, sneakers, sphere, species, mimic."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:59 · unknown (0.35)] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · programming · Marvel then told ABC SHIELD would not exist for the film universe. · "Just so you know, Shield's not going to exist enough."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30)] Species ↔ Michael Crichton · theme · The subgenre is described as getting a little Crichton in your life. · "Yeah, get a little Crichton in your life."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Disney+ Falcon and Bucky show · programming · Smaller side-character projects are the future on Disney Plus. · "That feels like what Disney Plus is going to be with the like Falcon and Bucky show and the Scarlet Wish show."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:45:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Borat · theme · Aliens and outsiders watching hotel-room TV to learn the culture is a gimmick that works in Borat, Big and Species. · "Borat, Big, this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Loki · programming · The Loki show hired a Rick and Morty writer; time-traveling premise. · "have you heard the premise of the Loki show and they hired a Rick and Morty writer?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] Species ↔ Alien · craft · H.R. Giger, who designed the creatures in the Alien films, also designed the creature in Species. · "Who designed the creatures in the alien films?"
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Gillian Anderson · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Does not watch horror and avoids it; trust in the director and a bold, researched choice drive her work. Likes confident filmmakers who communicate with actors. Her pick is The Invite. · stances: Trusts her instinct over the years; Directors often cannot communicate with actors; Not against horror if the right thing comes
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The X-Files (1993); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The X-Files (1993) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.