Ryan Coogler's The X-Files

Bald Brah said:

I don't think it's that serious my dude. They are just doing a cheap easy remake to make a quick buck. Some idiot will watch it.

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Probably this, yes. It doesn't have to be "another crack in the foundation of the West", it's just somebody trying to cash in on an old show that was wildly successful. This'll probably last one season and then quietly go away, like so many other reboots ("24" is a good example because they did the exact same thing with it). Maybe it'll get renewed for seasons 2 and 3 immediately (like before it even airs) depending on how progressive the studio wants to look, and will limp along with hardly anyone watching it until someone in actual book-keeping notices that they're $60 million in the hole and ends the project (like what happened with Discovery, Picard, now Starfleet Academy).

The problem isn't the cast so much as the fact that it's a reboot nobody asked for or wants; a sequel would have made more sense.

jayrebb said:

The Sinners period casting he's doing for it is unusual. Unless he plans setting the FBI field office in the South. I feel like HBO "It: Welcome to Derry" already burned people out on all that type of racially charged setup, so it'll be interesting to see if it can generate any appeal at all.

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And yeah, there's also this aspect. This show is already almost inevitably going to underperform, and they'll put the nail in the coffin by having the show preach about racial issues within the first couple of episodes. (Usually the first episode is really good to get people on board, then it's episode 2 or 3 where they hit you with the overt messaging). Nothing seems to revolt the Actual Modern Audience like giving them a sermon about race. Any real politicization or bashing of Orange Man will turn off half of the already-underperforming viewership.

The irony is that Orange Man is a molotov to the established order, and the original show's government-criticism was OF the established order... the "establishment" is not a president with a four-year term, and people seem to be becoming less and less aware of that, but I'm digressing here.

Now, if they can refrain from all of that and have the characters as apolitical (in terms of taking a side in the blue vs red puppet show) as they were back in the original show, they might be alright for a bit.