The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series

The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series Review

This is a comdey, plain and simple. It goes great with the X-files but you really do need to have some X-Files in your blood to appreciate what you are taking in. You have your three personas, find out how they met, and see what they really do for a living. Basically, they go around and they solve little scenarios that sometimes seem odd and sometimes seem anti-establishment but always seem to have three men holding the bag on what does not feel like I thought it would.

I was expecting aliens and oddities and got other things. This is why, in the end, I can see whay the series didn't last. That said, I am glad I can have this set because what I watched was fun and reflected a weird side to the whole "nut cases" and what they do.

If you don't know X-Files, you don't have to. You might like it a lot more if you like Fox and Skully, but you really don't need that feel to like this. In fact, teh most bitter complaints are oftentimes lodged by X-files fans, noting how flawed this idea was. Personally I see it through a different sphere, seeing how one set does not have to be a mirror image of the other.
And you get an X-file episode to boot, making it a nice thing to get.

Try it out, check into an episode or two, and see what you think. If you like it and its humor then you'll enjoy what you see. Don't expect the little men that took a certain FBI agent's sister however because that isn't the case. More often than not they are tangled up in a web that involves a certain lady they all swoon over, a newsletter they hope to print, and strange little confabulations that don't last too long but just long enough.

Buy and take with a grain of humor-laced salt.

The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series Feature

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The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series Overview

From X-Files creator Chris Carter, The Lone Gunmen Complete Series - get inside the trio of X-Files computer-hacking geeks popularly known as The Lone gunmen in the perfect DVD for all X-Files fans. Experience the altered world and suspenseful action that will keep you watching!

The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series Specifications

The Lone Gunmen was the short-lived spin-off series starring those scene-stealing conspiracy theorists from The X-Files. To recap, there is buttoned-down Byers (the bearded, relatively normal-looking one, played by Bruce Harwood), the "man of action" Frohike (the short one who had the hots for Scully, played by Tom Braidwood), and master hacker Langly (the one with the long blond hair, played by Dean Haglund). They also meet some new characters who both help and hinder: a female agent calling herself Yves Adele Harlow (and other anagrams for Lee Harvey Oswald, played by Zuleikha Robinson), who always seems a step ahead of them, and James "Jimmy" Bond (Stephen Snedden), the dimwitted benefactor who thinks that the Gunmen give him a purpose in life.

The series lasted a mere 13 episodes, and in retrospect probably plays better now than it did in the spring of 2001 when the peak years of The X-Files were still fresh in the memory. Thanks to direction and writing by the same creative talent and music by Mark Snow, The Lone Gunmen has the feel of Chris Carter's signature series, though without the impenetrable mythology and the sexual tension (Robinson is beautiful, but let's be serious). The episodes are generally stand-alone affairs reflecting the goofy humor that made the trio part of the comic relief in The X-Files. Light-hearted topics include a blind football team and a super-intelligent chimpanzee, but the closing episode dealt with the familiar themes of alien abduction and government cover-ups (a thread that after the series' cancellation had to be concluded in an episode of The X-Files, which is also included in this set). And particularly chilling is the pilot: aired six months before 9/11, it deals with an attempt to fly an airplane into the World Trade Center. The Lone Gunmen couldn't match the brilliant inspiration of The X-Files (few shows could), but for fans it might just be the next best thing. --David Horiuchi

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