season, they decided to push this episode back, feeling that it would be an excellent representative of the show for its first Sunday night episode and a better representative than the fourth episode of the season filmed, "Teliko". Entertainment Weekly gave the episode a "C", feeling that the "interesting concept" of the psychic photographs were ruined by "boilerplate Scully-in-distress shtick". Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club was more positive, grading it as a "B+". She felt that its "greatest virtue" was being terrifying and that it worked for being an "urban fairytale". However, she criticized it for putting Scully in danger. Sarah Stegall awarded the episode four stars out of five, praising the writing by Gilligan, who she commented was "genius for tight confrontation scenes", complimenting the atmosphere and presentation of the episode. She criticized the final scene featuring Scully tied up with duct-tape, commenting that the way she was loosely tied up was unrealistic. The fact that the episode's "absurd concept" was simply a "side-story" also drew positive attention, summarizing her review with, "otherwise a creepy and engaging detective story". Taylor Vince's performance as Gerry Schnauz received positive critical attention. Writer Barbara Barnett in her book Chasing Zebras stated that he was memorable as a "psychotic killer". John Kenneth Muir in his book Horror Films of the 1990s wrote that Taylor Vince portrayed one of the "memorable and frightening serial killers" of the series. In a later book, Terror Television American Series 1970–1999, Muir praised the episode as a whole, writing that the episode "is nightmare provoking because it subjects a wonderful individual to a terrifying situation which will remove all traces of individuality from that character". Television Without Pity ranked "Unruhe" the sixth-most nightmare-inducing episode of the show. Footnotes Bibliography External links 1996 American television episodes Television episodes set in Michigan Television episodes written by Vince Gilligan The X-Files (season 4) episodes Television episodes about precognition Fiction about photography