 The episode received mostly mixed reviews from television critics . In a retrospective review of the second season , Entertainment Weekly gave " Our Town " a C + , describing it as " scary — but mostly because of what transpires in a chicken processing plant . " Writing for The A.V. Club , Zack Handlen rated the episode a B – , criticizing the clichéd opening sequence — " Haven 't we seen this before ? Like , a million times , in dozens of horror movies , and even on this very series " — the bland characters and lack of humor . However , he did compliment the fact that the plot explained enough of the villain 's motives and that the episode had " some sense of a community behind everything " . Furthermore , he wrote that the resolution worked well despite again resorting to Scully in danger . 
