Choose one of the following two episodes of The X-Files: episode 1:3 “Squeeze”, or episode 1:21 “Tooms”Watch one of the episodes, and answer the following questions:1. Squeeze & Tooms sell themselves as quirky pieces of horror, and that is helped by the subtle, yet still highly creepy, performance from Dough Hutchison, who portrays Tooms as an immoral monster, making him seem all the more inhuman and terrifying. Is the fascination with serial killers dramatically different when it is an alien or supernatural entity as opposed to someone who could be living next door?2. Schmid states in his book that the rise of tabloid television helped propel shows like The X-Files, Twin Peaks, and others due to a shared reliance on irony & parody, a mixture of realism and fantasy and, at times, a healthy dosage of deviant, grotesque and paranormal behaviors. Does he make a sound argument, or is he off the mark again?Book referenced:Title: Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture*ISBN-13: 9780226738697ISBN-10: 0226738698Author: David SchmidEdition: New editionBinding: PaperbackPublisher: University Of Chicago PressPublished: December 2006Adoption: Required
