Finished all of the X-Files (series only) for the first time ever yesterday
When the xfiles aired initially i did not have a tv. By the time i did i skipped it because it was too Scooby-Doo for me. As time went on i lamented never having seen it.
When season 11 aired my wife and I started watching it, but it became obvious I had no idea what was happening. So I started to watch the old episodes. I never got very far. Last year I started watching them again, and yesterday I finished the final episode of season 11.
I really enjoyed the show. It was great seeing actors who were no names back then, but quite well known now.
I started a few weeks ago due to a lack of interest at the time. It's a great show that aged very well and I'm glad to watch it.
I think they became well known really fast because of how big the X-Files got. IIRC Gillian Anderson said that happened by season 3.
I watched it back then but nowhere near enough to get through the whole thing so last year I started from the beginning too. Still not quite finished but I'm getting close to the end of the original series, it's a lot of episodes.