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21 out of 22 people found the following comment useful :- Leaky Waterbeds, 23 February 2007 Author: Muldernsanta from Washington Terrace, Utah
If you're not familiar with the film Groundhog Day, you should be. Watch it. It's great. This is the X-Files version of Groundhog Day. It's well done and different enough so you don't think that they are just copying Groundhog Day. This has to be one of the most shocking teasers ever, when you see Mulder and Scully get blown up by a bomb in a bank. What the heck? How are they going to get out of this one. But soon, you see that the same day just keeps repeating. Pam, the bank robber's girlfriend is the only one aware that they stuck on the same day, Monday, over and over again. Unlike Groundhog Day, where the character do the exact same thing unless Phil changes things, Mulder and Scully vary their routine and dialogue a little bit each day regardless of their interaction with Pam. She believes that Mulder is the key to escaping this time loop. This episode has a good mixture of humor in it, mainly focusing on Mulder's waterbed springing a leak. The funniest part is Scully's reaction to discovering that Mulder has a waterbed, a reference to the earlier episode "Dreamland II". And to show homage to Groundhog Day, writers Vince Gilligan and John Shiban stick two references to the movie in the episode. The first is with the title "Monday", getting the word "day" in there. The second reference is showing an old-fashioned clock in Bernard & Pam's house change from 7:16 to 7:17 just like you saw Phil's clock in Groundhog Day flip from 5:59 to 6:00. The guest actors are great. I like the touch of the boring meeting in Skinner's office. I've sat through plenty of those. But I've got to dock it a couple of points for lack of originality. If you liked Groundhog Day, you should like Monday and the always interesting concept of being stuck in the same day over and over again.
9 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :- Fascinating variation on "Groundhog Day", 1 April 2006 Author: wtdk123 from United States
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Clearly inspired by the film "Groundhog Day" this fine episode of "The X-Files" takes its usual twists and turns taking the material that inspired it and making it truly unique for the show. While this isn't one of the best episodes of the show it's still a quality episode well written and performed with a nice twist to the end that most fans will probably figure out before the third act.The episode begins with an unusual opening for "The X-Files" (and that is saying something); Mulder and Scully are dead. The entire episode revolves around showing us what happened and why. Mulder's clearly having a bad day--he wakes up to a water filled floor and discovers that the water bed he's not supposed to have (purchased in the episode "Dreamland")has sprung a leak. More importantly the water has leaked down to his apartment manager's room. Bad news for the cash strapped G-man. He's also late for a departmental meeting with Skinner (the leak shorted out his cellphone and the electricity in his apartment). He drags himself in only only to realize he needs to get to the bank and make a deposit before the check he just wrote his manager bounces. He's there when a robbery occurs. He's at the wrong place at the wrong time.Anymore information would completely spoil the episode but some nice performances and twists save this from being a merely derivative episode. Like "Drive" it might fall just short of the standard established for the show's best seasons (you pick--3, 4 or 5)but it's still better written and performed than most shows out there today.
6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :- Wow, 9 August 2008 Author: koalablue_1993 from Australia
This is one of the greats. I love the way it was filmed, excellent for a TV show back in the 90's. The deja-vu sequences were awesome. This is the X-Files take on the concept of the Bill Murray film "Groundhog day", which is a very good movie everyone should watch. Gillian Anderson's acting is as good as always and the guest stars where great too. This is between my top ten episodes ever. It is simply great television. I have had my own deja-vu experiences and they're really creepy and make you feel uneasy and unreal. A very nice paranormal theme played out to perfection.See you Monday...
6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday and Monday and Monday and Monday and Monday and Monday and etc, 31 December 2007 Author: foxy_mulder from An old burnt down shack in the sahara
Another amazing episode of the X Files. No scratch that, a spectacular episode of the X Files. Possibly the best. Along with my other top ten which I will quickly list after this comment. This comment contains spoilers. In this episode, Mulder is having the worst day of his life. His waterbed springs a leak, causing his alarm clock to short out and his cellphone to die. Also, in his apartment he is not supposed to have a waterbed anyway, so that makes him late for a very special FBI meeting and ya, he is having the baddest day ever. Anyway, he has to make a trip to the bank where a suicidal and/or homicidal bank robber maniac so in the end the bank blows up with Mulder, Scully and the bank robber inside, killing them all, then the day starts over again and yeah, it goes on like that. For no reason, I am presenting to you my top ten X Files episodes. 1: Field Trip 2: Monday 3: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 4: Impropable 5: Bad Blood 6: X Cops 7: Closure 8: The Truth 9: Release 10: Tithonus
2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :- Lola déjà-vu, 26 July 2008 Author: suchenwi (suchenwi@o2online.de) from Konstanz, Germany
Disclaimer first: this is my first day of watching X Files (intense, though - watching six episodes from season 6). I started with Field Trip and decided to continue this trip while supplies last.That said, I'm very impressed by the artful production, as well as by the variety of styles. In a way it reminded me of the broad scale of Hitchcock movies, which range from comedy to thriller to horror."Monday" brings in déjà-vu experiences, and I had one: Run Lola Run (1998). Sure, the time loop theme has often been done (as Wikipedia documents), and Groundhog Day is a memorable precedent, but the repeated time in a dramatic/tragic light (bank/grocery store robberies, one or more protagonists dying) still made me wonder whether 1998's Lola (which was shown in the US, even getting an Oscar nomination) also had some influence on 1999's "Monday"...
A great stand-alone, 20 August 2009 Author: MulderManiac from Canada
Monday was a great, well-done episode. Yeah, yeah everyone knows they spoofed Groundhog Day and that episode of the Twilight Zone--but it still managed to be an enjoyable, light-hearted episode with a heart-stopping opening sequence for first time viewers.This episode was interesting to watch just because of Mulder's reaction to doing basically the same thing every day. Watching his impatience grow is something to smile about because everyone can relate to reliving the same Monday over and over again. "Monday" managed to hold your attention by never repeating EXACTLY the same day but throwing in some minor changes that kept your interest. Great storyline, great acting, lots of fun. 8/10
9 out of 19 people found the following comment useful :- Its coming through down there?, 9 July 2007 Author: Sanpaco13 from Sandy, UT, United States
Monday was an enjoyable episode to a certain point. I don't know exactly what parts specifically bothered me so I will focus on what I liked after I say one thing: the girl that was stuck in the day was annoying.So things I liked about this episode. I liked that each repeat of the day was not exactly the same. This made it so that rather than just showing the same scenes over and over again we actually got to see the actors do multiple takes of the same. I thought it was funny that on the third day Mulder seemed a little more impatient than previously like "ya ya we already did this lets get it done right this time." And frankly who hasn't had a Monday like this? Today being Monday I can say that if I was stuck in a recurring loop where every day was Monday I would probably kill myself. This was an enjoyable episode to watch simply because of David Duchovny. I give it 7/10.
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