10 Criminally Underrated X-Files Episodes

You wouldn't expect any production featuring Danny Trejo and Joe Morton to ever be criminally underrated, but here we are. Redum, from The X-Files' eighth season, had the unfortunate experience of being an episode lacking Fox Mulder in the first season that David Duchovny was not a full-time part of the show (he took on a reduced workload, showing up in just under half of the season's episodes).

As a result, fans bitter that their favourite leading man was missing refused to give his heir apparent a chance, making Redrum  a victim of closed minds. Featuring a renowned Baltimore Prosecutor (Morton) arrested for the murder of his wife, it's very much a time travel (or time paradox) episode with a twist: while the rest of the world moves forward, Morton's character, Martin Wells, is moving backwards through time, with each new day being the day that came before, but with no memory of the past he is quickly approaching. With no memory of the past, he only knows that he did not kill his wife, and needs to not only prove it, but to prevent it.

Redrum is one of those rare episodes where the story is told, and shown, from the perspective of someone other than the usual protagonists, which was probably another knock against it - but it is absolutely compelling television regardless, absolutely unique.