The Post-Modern Prometheus
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"The Post-Modern Prometheus" is the fifth episode of the fifth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files and originally aired on the Fox network on November 30, 1997. Writte
Scully (left) and Mulder (right) take The Great Mutato (center) to a Cher concert. The episode was filmed in black-and-white, in a stylistic nod to the 1931 film Frankenstein.
The episode was heavily inspired by Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.
After viewing the episode, singer Cher came to regret turning down a cameo appearance.
Chris Carter was nominated for both Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing at the 50th Primetime Emmy Awards.
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The Post-Modern Prometheus
…studies writer Linda Badley, this episode, and season four's "Home", foreshadow Scully's impending motherhood and her realization, in following episodes "Christmas Carol" and "Emily", that she has been used to create a human-alien hybrid, Emily. Diane Negra, in her book Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic…
Several critics complimented Gillian Anderson's performance in the episode.