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Darin Morgan (born 1966) is an American screenwriter best known for several offbeat, darkly humorous episodes of the television series The X-Files and Millennium. His teleplay for the X-Files episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" won a 1996 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.
- Writer, director, film producer, actor
- Loyola Marymount University
- 1989–present
- Syracuse, New York
- War of The Coprophages
- Humbug
- Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monster
- Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
- The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
- Jose Chung's from Outer Space
To be clear, being the worst Darin Morgan-written episode of The X-Files isn't a terrible distinction. All of Morgan's episodes have been acclaimed to an extent, and that was the case for X-Files season 3, episode 12, "War of the Coprophages." FBI agents Mulder and Scully, as so they often do, head to a small town to investigate mysterious murders,...
The X-Files, season 2, episode 20, "Humbug," was the first episode to be directly written by Darin Morgan, and went a long way toward establishing him as a writer to watch. "Humbug" was one of the first X-Filesepisodes to sport a wacky, irreverent feel, and indulge in a playful sense of strangeness that would come to be the show's absurdist hallmar...
The X-Files' first revival season, season 10, only ran six episodes in length, but smartly brought Darin Morgan in to write episode 3, "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster." If anyone had been wondering if Morgan's comedic chops had dulled in the time sinceX-Files season 9, this hilarious new tale quickly answered that question with a resoundin...
The top three episodes in Darin Morgan'sX-Files catalog are almost interchangeable in quality, and deciding between them is a very hard task for even the most diehard X-Files lover. "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" in season 3, episode 4, is probably the darkest of Morgan's X-Files outings - although certainly not as dark as a shocker like X-Files' ...
The X-Files season 11, so far its last, was widely seen as a big improvement from season 10. Again delivering was Darin Morgan's X-Files season 11, episode 4, "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat." It's probably not as moving or emotionally impactful as "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," but it makes up for that by being possibly the funniest X-Files epis...
Darin Morgan's "Jose Chung's From Outer Space," X-Files season 3, episode 20, is another clear candidate for the funniest installment of the series ever. Charles Nelson Reilly guest stars as the titular Jose Chung, an author writing a book about aliens and UFOs. Chung is another terrific character created by Morgan, but the real driver of the story...
Darin Morgan (born 1966) is an American screenwriter who worked on various episodes of the The X-Files and Millennium. Well known for his offbeat, quirky writing style, Morgan's scripts were dark and humorous, often stood out from the rest of The X-Files episodes, and have also received high critical acclaim among The X-Files community.
Jan 25, 2018 · By Ben Lindbergh Jan 24, 2018, 9:02pm EST. Fox/Ringer illustration. Darin Morgan might not believe it, but he’s the most beloved writer in the history of The X-Files. In a phone conversation...
- Ben Lindbergh
Oct 28, 2007 · Not Just a Fluke: How Darin Morgan Saved The X-Files. In its nine years on the air, The X-Files brought shadowy government conspiracies back to the center of national attention like...
Producer: The X-Files. Darin Morgan was born on 2 September 1948 in Santa Clara County, California, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for The X-Files (1993), Millennium (1996) and Those Who Kill (2014).
Sep 12, 2023 · More than creator Chris Carter, more than Morgan’s prolific brother Glen, more than future Breaking Bad honcho Vince Gilligan, Darin Morgan saw what The X-Files could really be,...
