My Struggle is an apt name for the episode if it refers to the writer's attempt to provide a coherent plot, because there isn't one. It's a mess. I looked it up and apparently the title is supposed to refer to Mulder's battle with depression (maybe he had read the script) but all I could think of while watching was that "My Struggle" in German is "Mein Kampf". Of course, the show does bring up fascism a couple of times, because apparently it's now impossible to have non-political escapist television, even about extraterrestrials. The show goes out of it's way to establish it's lefty credentials by hitting all the usual talking points- right wing gun nuts, climate change, Big Oil, the elite one-percenters, the sinister military... you name it, the tired cliche is there. I can't be the only one who's sick of being force fed this pious claptrap in practically every form of entertainment. Apart from anything else, it's entirely predictable... you always know who the bad guys are going to be.
Maybe I wouldn't have been so annoyed by the shameless woke pandering if given anything resembling an interesting story but, alas, that was not to be found in this episode. The show just seems to be going through the motions, unable to justify its own existence. Even Scully and Mulder seem tired and dispirited, struggling to find the energy and personal chemistry that made them such a watchable team during the earlier seasons of the show. There's a lot of exposition dumping in long-winded speeches: over and over again they tell instead of show. And the writer seems to have taken a page from Rian Johnson's book, "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to." This episode appears to wipe away everything that went before. Despite all that she's seen and experienced in over to years dealing with X Files, Scully is back to being a complete sceptic and in denial of everything. Even more unbelievably Mulder, after listening to some chick relate her abduction story, suddenly declares that all the investigations that he engaged in over the past 24 years were totally false, deceptions practised on him by the government to keep him from finding out the truth- that the U.S. government was plotting to take over the world using alien technology. Well, I'm no FBI agent, but that seems like a bit of a leap- not to mention one heck of a retcon.
To sum up, My Struggle is plot challenged, overly political, grim and humourless. I found myself thinking that I miss when the conspiracy theorists were the quirky and fun Lone Gunmen. We don't have anyone enjoyable like that in this depressing mess of a show. I don't know... maybe the next episodes will improve. They could hardly be worse.