'The X-Files' Is Ready to Be Your Free Streaming Binge for the New Year

[highplainsdem]

https://gizmodo.com/x-files-streaming-free-pluto-tv-2000703924

Most people start off a new year with lofty plans for big projects—new resolutions, new hobbies to get into, and so on and so forth. But if one of your plans includes wanting to either revisit or experience a sci-fi classic for the first time as we enter 2026, then we’ve got good news for you: the very convenient truth is out there.

This morning PlutoTV announced that every episode of X-Files will be streaming for free on its services from January 1, 2026. And they mean every one: 218 episodes, totalled from both the 11 seasons of the classic show and the, uh, occasionally less classic ones from the 2016 revival will be included.

As well as being able to stream every episode on demand, The X-Files will also receive its own 24/7 linear channel from Pluto, also kicking off on January 1 with a chronological broadcast of the whole series, before pivoting to marathons of beloved arcs, themed packages around whatever creepy threats Mulder and Scully could face, and spotlights on major turning points in the show’s vast and intricate mythology.

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[ificandream]

1. And guess what I bought my son for Christmas?

The whole series on Fandango. Oh well, he won’t have the commercials.

[Hugin]

2. For some reason as much as I loved seeing the first run "X-files"...

While sitting around in a darkened room surrounded by nursing students and eating frito pies on so many Friday and Sunday nights.

I have never been able to watch the show in syndication. I guess the first time was too experiential, as the kids say now.