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The X-Files
The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
Directed by
Darin Morgan
TV-14
S11 • E4
Jan 24, 2018
44m
8.1
7.4
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Exploring the idea of The Mandela Effect, in which large groups of people remember an alternate history, Mulder and Scully find out how the X-Files themselves may really have originated.
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Cast of The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat
David Duchovny
Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson
Dana Scully
Mitch Pileggi
Walter Skinner
Brian Huskey
Reggie Something
Bill Dow
Pangborn
Stuart Margolin
Dr. Thaddeus Q. They
Dan Zukovic
Martin
Keith Arbuthnot
Alien
Alex Diakun
Buddy / Devil
Caitlin Groves
Special Effects Makeup Artist
The X-Files - S11 • E4 Ratings & Reviews
Syfy Wire
Alyse Wax
This is the most political episode so far this season, and yet it never gets preachy.
io9.com
Cheryl Eddy
"The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" has a rip-roaring time taking the Trump administration-already the subject of some unsubtle digs this season-to task.
MUBI
Keith Uhlich
Morgan's humor is itself a rectifying tool, though it is always and ever undergirded by a deep sadness for things lost and potential not realized.
Consequence of Sound
Michael Roffman
Shocker: Darin Morgan delivered another classic episode of The X-Files.
The Young Folks
Katey Stoetzel
"The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" is universal, in that we trust our memories to hold our own truth. Like Scully says, "I want to remember how it was."
Paste Magazine
Dom Sinacola
[It] falls cleanly in line with the first three episodes of the season thus far, playing whack-a-Schrdinger's-mole with notions of doubles and alternate timelines and oneiric realities, but anchors itself to the core relationship between the two lead[s].
TV Fanatic
Carissa Pavlica
Overall, this was one of the silliest hours of The X-Files in a while, but it was also one of the most enjoyable and still had a rather profound message to share.
IGN Movies
Matt Fowler
The quirky and quick-witted "Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" may have contained a few news cycle-y elements... but overall it was a masterful, and loving, lampooning of the series featuring hilarious performances from both Anderson and Duchovny.
indieWire
Liz Shannon Miller
One of "The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat's" most intriguing attributes is its look back at past episodes.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Brian Tallerico
It's funny, smart, irreverent, and, in keeping with a theme of this season, it playfully comments on the X-Files fanbase, who probably remember an episode or two differently than they actually played out.
Nerdist
Kyle Anderson
"The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat" is a sci-fi farce for the ages, and will go down as one of the best episodes of a show that many (including me, I admit) thought had passed its prime 18 years ago.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Erik Henriksen
"The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat"-is GREAT. In fact, like "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster," it's probably one of the series' all-time bests.
TV Worth Watching
David Bianculli
... ends with some galactically appropriate political jokes, and plays with the entire X-Files canon, start to finish, in the middle.
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