Millennium (TV Series) Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' (1997) User Reviews

Funny episode

[CursedChico · 8/10 · 27 January 2021]

Funny episode

But self healing, positive thinking are not so funny things. They can really help people good sometimes. So, this episode shows them unuseful things. That is why i disliked some.

Blonde frank black was cool also :) he is good actor.

"don't be so dark"

[TIALI · 10/10 · 5 November 2006]

The is the ultimate Millennium episode: Jose Chung (from one of the best X Files episodes, appears as an author who writes about "Selfosophy" (a movement with many similarities to another Hollywood celebrity movement whose members include Tom Cruise and John Travolta). Charles Nelson Reilly plays Chung, a writer who claims his story-spinning powers rival the profiling skills of Frank Black. And this episode contains several of Chung's (and others) dramatized theories, which are hilarious, including one with a blonde Lance Henriksen. Even David Duchovny appears on posters in the Selfosophy offices. This is a really funny episode which mocks many subjects and I had almost forgotten about. Most of the Millennium episodes are very dark with a seriousness that bordered on self-parody. Well, this is the episode where the show lets off steam and plays it for laughs.

Just a note on the other review...

[brodiebruce_405 · 10/10 · 20 November 2013]

The blonde Lance Henriksen was supposed to be Omar Goopta/L. Ron Hubbard's character, not Jose Chung's, as the other reviewer stated.

However, everything else he said is right. This is another Darin Morgan masterpiece, but I prefer his second Millennium episode, "Somehow Satan Got Behind Me", which is the perfect lead in to the finale of Season 2 (and what should have been the series finale). It's funny (with Charles Nelson Reilly once again shining for the last time in the role, which should have been spun off if you ask me), clever, disturbing in the right way...it's a really great departure and every bit as fully formed and intelligent as you'd expect from Darin Morgan, the only TV auteur who drifted from show to show, never creating one but always with his own unique voice.

Weak.

[bombersflyup · 2/10 · 30 September 2019]

Jose Chung's 'Doomsday Defense' is amusing at times, but worthless because of Chung himself, who eats away at any comical continuance or consistency. Plus that opening prelude's brutal.