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With me in the studio this week is Emily van der Werf, the critic at large for Vox.

She's also the co-creator of the fiction podcast Arden and the co-author of the book

Monsters of the Week, the complete critical companion to the X-files. Emily, welcome to the show.

Hey it's so great to be here, Danny.

I'm just so thrilled that here.

Do you have a sense of, was the X-files the first show to do a monster of the week thing?

One of the first?

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