Your assessment is how I remember it. I don't think I even made it to season 5, as I bailed when I realized they had no idea where they were going with their metaplot. I turned to an episode in later seasons only to be greeted by two characters who weren't Mulder & Scully wondering to myself, "Who are these jokers?"
Yeah I nearly mentioned that - and you're quite right, that is what eventually keeps the show going, I hadn't thought about that but it is.
Coogler certainly has the horror and general directing chops for it, but it's really going to be on how well they can update the general concept to today, a world where everyone has a powerful videocamera in their pocket, and demented conspiracy theories are government policy (particularly relevant literally today, horrifyingly), rather than weird almost cool things some loner in his 50s believes.
Also, at the time the original X-Files came out, conspiracies were still cooky fun. Now not so much.
My trouble with X Files is that, in the first season, most episodes ended dubiously. There was an unnatural explanation of the events by Moulder and a grounded explanation of the same events by Scully. So you choose if you sided with Moulder or Scully. But after Gillian Anderson get pregnant and needed to "disappear" for some episodes, the rational explanation was throw out the window and most episodes were unmistakenly supernatural. That killed the show for me. The dubiety was what made it instigating for me in first place. No right or wrong answers. Believe in what you want.
Seems like it's further adventures of the Brad Pitt character, not a follow up on the real life events the fictional character got involved with, so I can give that a pass.
I did not like season three!
