 " Død Kalm " received mostly mixed to moderately positive reviews . Entertainment Weekly gave " Død Kalm " a B , noting that , " Despite clumsy makeup , isolation pays off again , and Mulder and Scully get to try a little tenderness . " Todd VanDerWerff from The A.V. Club , despite noting his original dislike for the episode , awarded it a B rating and wrote , " This episode works , almost in spite of itself . There are so many nice little moments here [ ... ] it 's a script that pauses from the constant horror the show had been serving up for several episodes in a row to just tell an unsettling , ultimately moving tale of two friends who look into the abyss and somehow don 't fall . " 
