The X-Files (TV Series) Dreamland II (1998) User Reviews

A contender for the title of best episode

[koalablue_1993 · 10/10 · 9 August 2008]

Dreamland part 1 and 2 are two of my most favorite episodes ever! This is a non-mythology two parter that proves to be one of the entire series finest. There is humor, creepiness and a handful of weirdly touching moments. Body switching is depicted perfectly. David Duchovny's acting in the comedy episodes is always hilarious, Gillian Anderson gets her moments too. If you want to have fun and laugh out loud every two seconds this is the episode for you. I have never had so much fun watching the X-Files. Inmensily enjoyable. And we finally get Area 51 featured in the show.

Mulder: HE IS NOT ME!

The Men In Black

[Muldernscully · 10/10 · 24 January 2007]

Dreamland II continues a good thing established in Dreamland. Things become a bit more serious as Mulder is desperate to return to his self. But not helping him is Morris Fletcher, who is relishing his life as Fox Mulder and an agent in the FBI. Morris, as Mulder, attempts to put the moves on Scully, and the outcome is hilarious. Mark Snow inserts some good comedic music in the scenes at Morris' home to set the tone for Mulder's predicament there. This episode is helped out with an appearance by the Lone Gunmen, who are now trying to learn Spanish for whatever reason. Their interaction with Morris Fletcher who looks like Mulder is very entertaining. He exposes the Lone Gunmen's exposés as stories made up by him while sitting on the pot. They don't like him a bit. And after all the lore and mystery surrounding Area 51, Mulder discovers that the military merely flies the UFOs there. General Wegman himself, even asks Mulder if aliens really exist. What a disappointing revelation for Mulder. I found it interesting that the guy who plays Howard, the co-worker of Morris who is trying to expose him as the leak, looks a lot like Jeffrey Spender, a rat as well in the FBI. Unfortunately, after all their efforts, the time warp snaps back and returns everything to how it was before, and all the participants don't remember a thing. But, it does set things up for future episodes that are quite funny. Dreamland II is a very fun conclusion to Dreamland, and they are a great two-parter overall.

Incredibly imaginative.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 10/10 · 14 September 2022]

Scully finally puts the pieces together, and works out exactly who's who.

I hope the rest of 6 continues along these lines, this was an awesome continuation and conclusion, another episode that just manages to tick every single box.

It's incredibly imaginative, it's a little chilling, it's surprising, and once again it's really funny, there are so many scenes here that had me chuckling away, the humour worked incredibly well, well mixed into the serious scenes.

Duchovny was awesome throughout, one of his best performances, Anderson was great also, the way she delivered that great line, 'I'd kiss you if you weren't so damned ugly ' one of Scully's best to date.

I loved that it was an independent two part story, a casual viewer could easily pick this up, and I'm sure fall in love with the show.

I couldn't take my eyes off it, 10/10.

My two favorite episodes EVER!!!!!!

[higgle-1 · 10/10 · 24 March 2007]

This, and part one, are my very favorite episodes of the X-Files I have ever seen! It's classic X-Files, UFO's, government conspiracies, Area 51!! There's a "laugh-like-a-drunk-Daffy Duck" moment every two minutes, the Duck Soup parody, the switched Hopi woman and pilot, Scully's reaction to who she thinks is Mulder, Fletcher trying to woo her, Fletcher's reaction to Mulder and the Lone Gunmen, Mulder's reaction to Jo Ann and his coworkers, the realization of all the mix-ups are just a few of them(Hilarious one-liners funny enough for a laugh track ensue throughout all these!) Iswear, I have never in my life laughed so much in two hours as I did while watching this! If I tried to list all the kick-ass quotes in this episode I'd have a giant list.

There are also truly touching and deep moments, such as the talk Mulder and Scully have when she tells him he may never get back, and Fletcher convincing Jo Ann that it's him. The direction, acting, music and the writing of this episode is simply exquisite. This is true classic X-Files, and a masterpiece. And what in the world can beat the bewildered look on Mulder's face at the end of part II?

He's not me!

[Sanpaco13 · 10/10 · 27 August 2007]

This is a great follow-up to one of the other great episodes of the series. I really enjoy the teaser with Morris Fletcher voice over giving a biography of Mulder while we watch home-videos of Mulder as a child stomping on his Spock ear that won't stay on. Classic. From here we jump back to the final scene of the last episode with Mulder being taken away screaming "He's not me!" There are so many fun scenes to watch with different interactions like Mulder in the cage with grandma Top Gun driving each other crazy. Then Fletcher's feigned sense of sympathy when Scully gets suspended. I really like the scene in the general's office when Mulder gets off the hook because he gave Scully the wrong flight data recorder and he is completely clueless at first but then slowly starts to play along. I realized while watching that Mulder is better at pretending to be Fletcher than Fletcher is at pretending to be Mulder. Then all of the Scully and Fletcher scenes in Mulder's apartment are also great. I thought it was hilarious when Fletcher is telling Scully that she'll just have to get used to him being there because he doesn't know how to change it back and she tells him to contact his source and see if he knows and Fletcher tells her he doesn't know how to get a hold of him and she's just out of luck and then as soon as he finished saying that the phone rings and its the source. Such a great subtle touch of irony! I loved it. I also really enjoyed listening to Fletcher sing "Let's Get it On" in Japanese and Spanish with the special features on the DVD. Finally the entire scene at the little A'LE'INN with everyone hiding in the bathroom from different people and the same people is great. I think I liked this episode better than the first one but they both are great. I really think that stories and situations like this are what TV is all about even if they seem clichéd. I give it 10/10.

Searching for the lost song

[masterfifagame · 10/10 · 8 July 2022]

The song that plays at the UFO bar where Mulder meets his body double. There is a song in the background.

Lyrics-"have waited for what seems like a light-year Just to see your face once again, my dear Shining bright like moonlight Sunlight, starlight With big dark eyes that send me out of sight Now I'm staring at the stars... Wondering where you are... Wondering if I'll ever see your face again In my memory you are "

Please help me find the song. Considered by all who watch it to be a hidden Gem.

A Twisted Take on "Big"!

[ShannonTriumphant · 10/10 · 18 December 2016]

All his life, Mulder has wanted access to the stuff the government knows, the conspiracies, the rogue groups and secret projects. All Morris Fletcher wants is out of the distinctly drab, boring and unrewarding life of a Man in Black. Via a strange time-space warp, they get their wishes, switching bodies and lives.

Aside from the irony that Mulder does not get what he supposed he would with Fletcher's access and that nobody in Mulder's life wants Fletcher around, especially Scully and the Lone Gunmen, the results are endlessly hilarious. His attempts to redecorate Mulder's apartment alone are worth the watch.

This episode is a great commentary, not on how diabolical the government conspiracies are (for the most part) but how boring! Not only are Mulder's expectations dashed, but Fletcher manages to throw cold water on Fox's theories and those of his friends, while dissing his lifestyle as well, intending to re-invent himself as a carefree bachelor.

The plot also owes a lot to the film "It's a Wonderful Life", in which both men-- mostly Mulder--get to see what good things they actually had in their old lives. It's not probable that they will learn enough to change permanently but even a few days' of self-examination is worth seeing.

Another blast in this episode, especially now, is the chance to see Michael McKean, who has just finished playing Saul Goodman's judgmental, unhappy, vengeful older brother Chuck McGill in "Better Call Saul". Here, he is just the opposite: a slacker, a lech and almost casually villainous, utterly lacking Chuck's high-minded "morality". It's refreshing to see a guy who just doesn't give a damn what people think of him.

I agree with the other viewers that this is one of the best, most brilliant and funny X-Files episode ever. The metaphysical contemplation by all characters are great too.

Morris Mulder, Fox Fletcher

[XweAponX · 10/10 · 18 February 2012]

A fortunate turn lets Mulder loose, but he is being monitored by his co- workers. Man what a team, each of these guys hate the other's guts, and would use any means to rise higher in the ranks if it means putting the hot poker to each other or to Fletcher. But Fletcher who knows all of this, has already anticipated it, and worked it out so all the blame falls on his co workers.

The surprise here is who actually leaked the information to Mulder in the first place. But the poor stiff does not know he's not MEETING with Mulder. Mulder, who had talked Fletcher's wife into going out, sees the whole thing and they all have a confab in the Men's Bathroom.

Fletcher in the meantime, has been screwing up everything Mulder has stood for, gets Skully fired, and cleans out Mulder's bedroom and sticks a waterbed in there. He tries to seduce Skully, that's when she finally figures it out.

Add a humorous interlude between the Lone Gunmen and Fletcher, who states that he personally made up Saddam Hussein, and it eventually looks like there is no hope-Mulder is to be forever stuck in this POS's body.

Until the damage that was done to the Space-Time continuum starts rolling back - The Air Force and the Men In Black figure it out just in time to get everybody back into the right bodies.

At the very end of the day, these two episodes, never happened. So, Why is there a waterbed in Mulder's apartment?

These two eps take the prize for officially being the funniest X-Files episodes ever made.

Best body-swap comedy since 'Big'.

[shroomanp · 9/10 · 26 November 2021]

A fantastic episode, with everyone playing their parts beautifully.

Mike McKean steals the show as Morris Fletcher, and I'm glad he became a recurring character, he makes comedy look effortless, but the REAL scene stealer was Julia Vera, who slipped into the role of a 'Maverick' hotshot fly-boy like a well worn glove.

A brilliant 9/10 🍄

"Accept who you are, however repulsive that may be."

[classicsoncall · 8/10 · 24 July 2017]

I didn't think this episode reached the level of the first 'Dreamland' but it was still quite good. Duchovny doing a comic Mulder is always a blast, and there was plenty of ammunition here for Morris Fletcher (Michael McKean) to set Mulder up for a lot of great follow up in future stories if only the players could remember what happened in this one. But of course that was not to be, what with the temporary nature of his displaced character.

I got the biggest kick out of the Lone Gunmen theorizing about the Aurora, a hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft fueled with slush hydrogen, a quick way of saying methylcyclohexane. Fletcher, in the guise of Mulder merely snickers, causing them to question their FBI friend's sanity.

And you know what - I knew the motive had to be to extend the story line into a two-parter as the reason Scully didn't call out Fletcher in 'Dreamland'. The first time he called her 'Dana' should have been the big tip off, along with the pat on her butt, but it took the bedroom scene for Scully to draw the line. If you haven't seen the episode, don't worry. Scully didn't get tricked into doing the nasty with Fletcher; she actually came a lot closer to smooching it up with Eddie Van Blundht doing his own Mulder impersonation in "Small Potatoes".

If I'm not mistaken, a prior X-Files episode referenced the original Star Trek TV series; this one did mention that show at one point and the 'snap back' nature of the ending here reminded me of a time travel story in Star Trek that required precise timing to get the Enterprise back to the Twenty Third Century. Isn't it amazing that those kind of impossible odds were always overcome for a story resolution? For Scully and Mulder though, just was just another another day in the paranormal life.

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[koatprdns · 10/10 · 16 March 2023]

Mulder has a kitchen! With actual kitchen appliances!

And does in fact, have a bedroom. Albeit full of porn, no surprise (and x-files no doubt) !!

As per my review of 4.19, Dana Scully's writers are all over the place. Scully's attitude is still palpable and her given reasons appalling though the audience might assume she's covering up her true feelings or only subconsciously aware of and angry about the status quo.

But when she is so dim not to notice very obvious clues - especially for a scientist - and inexplicably rigid despite verbally and actively adjusting her own opinions previously, it just grates.

It means the script is undeveloped and the potential unrealised. For a fan this is very painful. Cue eye roll.