Yes! Although certainly disturbing, the production quality, script, direction and performances are top notch. One really gets the uneasy feeling that somewhere out there, in some time and place, in a dark, forgotten corner of this Earth, there existed a family and property uncomfortably similar to the unspeakable horrors of the Peacock’s homestead.

I think so- ‘"Home" was the first episode of The X-Files to carry a viewer discretion warning for graphic content. It would have been the only episode to receive a TV-MA rating upon broadcast, but it aired two months before the December 19, 1996 introduction of the TV Parental Guidelines.’

“Owing to that content, the network would only repeat the episode once on Halloween 1999, three years after the original airing. This was the only time, in the history of the series, that this happened.”

Source- Hurwitz, Matt; Knowles, Chris (2008). The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series the Myths and the Movies. San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions. ISBN 9781933784724.

(Am hungruh).

That was our 24#/longhair (per his vet the largest feline client in the practice) black cat’s motto so we needed something else. Did that do contain cannibalism too? I’ve kind of blocked it out of my memory bc it shook me so much. I didn’t realize they took it out of circulation after its first run!

I still can't 🥲