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Miracle Man 1.18
() 90's style - The baggy button-up shirt and necklace sported by Samuel - even the Lord wants him to look stylin'. Neon green and purple track suit jacket!! I'm amazed it
took 18 episodes to get that up on the screen!! There's a non-zero chance the sherriff borrowed that green satin coat from the police in "Halloween". Big
Sherriff Brackett energy."Halloween". Mulder's patterned tie game continues to be strong. Rev. Calvin's pastel tie, handkerchief and gold, well, everything
else is honestly the prototype for Joel Osteen. I have no notes.a
The hotel room - repeating floral pattern wallpaper along with the plastic wrapped lamp shades, coupled with the opaque glass bricked wall - is something to
behold!
() 90's tech - Of *course* Rev. Calvin gets driven around in a white Cadillac.
() 90's life - I honestly think we thought revival/televangelist types were still amusing and harmless at this point. Between this and the 'tent revival' scene in "True
Detective" some of those traveling ministries must have been...interesting? Indoor smoking: Even being around while it was still a thing, it still seems so
odd to see now. Funny as the Jessica Hahn reference must have been in 1994, it's definitely more of a Mulder joke.
Notes: The cemetary scene where Mulder & Scully are exhuming the body and the candle-lit congregation begins walking toward them is genuinely a creepy shot. It's got a very
unsettling orange lighting to it that makes it seem unnatural. Very underrated. The makeup for Leonard Vance is (intentionally, it turns out) caked on to look "off". There's
a real odd tonal shift with the arrival of Samuel's Star Wars Force ghost and subsequent missing body. The goings on up that point had been somewhat explained and one could
explain it away as a hallucination but it's a very sharp turn the story takes.
