This is far from my favorite X-Files episode and I find bug episodes in general to be revolting. This one is a lot funnier, however, watching as an adult after working in corporate America for 20 years.
The opening character's job is just about the most mind-numbing kind of corporate job around, reading the same sales script hundreds of times a day while being ordered to smile. Nowadays, even those kinds of jobs have been outsourced to other countries where labor is cheaper (for the time being).
Fittingly, he sees his boss as a giant bug who is gradually infecting his coworkers. They are walking zombies who actually died as human beings and still look human on the outside, to most other people. The people who can see them for the zombie-bugs they actually are, are the ones thought to be crazy.
Of course, our heroes Mulder and Scully save the day and the zombie-bugs flee that particular location, but they live on to infect others.
That's corporate life in a nutshell. Except that it's gotten worse in the last 20 years. The best science fiction always provides commentary on the human condition.
The opening character's job is just about the most mind-numbing kind of corporate job around, reading the same sales script hundreds of times a day while being ordered to smile. Nowadays, even those kinds of jobs have been outsourced to other countries where labor is cheaper (for the time being).
Fittingly, he sees his boss as a giant bug who is gradually infecting his coworkers. They are walking zombies who actually died as human beings and still look human on the outside, to most other people. The people who can see them for the zombie-bugs they actually are, are the ones thought to be crazy.
Of course, our heroes Mulder and Scully save the day and the zombie-bugs flee that particular location, but they live on to infect others.
That's corporate life in a nutshell. Except that it's gotten worse in the last 20 years. The best science fiction always provides commentary on the human condition.