A sequel was considered for THE X-FILES Inbred Peacock Family from ‘Home’ in MILLENNIUM, but Fox shut it down

The X-Files the episode “Home” is considered one of the more controversial episodes of the series. It first aired in 1996 and the episode featured a family of inbred mutants known as the Peacock family. It was quite a disturbing episode and the only one in the series to carry a TV-MA rating and a viewer discretion notice for graphic content. I mean, the episode opens with a related child being born and then buried alive in the rain by family members!

Despite being a monster episode of the week, “Home” proved to be a hit with fans and critics alike, with many calling it the best episode of the series. That episode was written by Glen Morgan AND James Wong and Wong recalled the studio’s initial reaction in an earlier New York Times article:

“The people who answered first were the executives. I remember getting a call from a producer. He said, ‘You guys are sick!'”

However, what you may not know is that the story of the Peacock family almost followed into another Chris Carter-television program created, Millennium! That was until Fox executives shut it down. Millennium starred Lance Henriksen as Frank Black, a freelance forensic profiler and former FBI agent with a unique ability to see the world through the eyes of serial killers and assassins.

The “Home” episode ends with the grotesque Mrs. Peacock disappearing from under the bed and in the final scene, in the evening on a dirt road somewhere in the country, a white Cadillac sits empty and idle. A voice is heard from inside the trunk saying:

«Come on, come on. Sherman and George were good guys. We should be proud. Now you must know, Edmund, you can’t keep a peacock down. There will be others. One day, there will be more. Now we have to move on, start a new family, of which we will be proud. Find a new place to call our own; a new house, a brand new house.

Morgan and Wong came up with the idea of ​​bringing the Peacock family back for an episode of Millennium. The episode would have seen Frank Black track down the surviving members of the family. That would have been incredibly beautiful and interesting to see! But Fox was absolutely against bringing the Peacock family back. Morgan explained how it all went down:

“The year after Jim [Wong] and I hosted the Millennium show, which Chris Carter also created, and the ratings were low on that show and we were like, “Hey, what if Lance Henriksen finds the surviving members of the Peacock family?” Everyone thought it was a great idea. And we were all ready to do a sequel to ‘Home’ and then we got a call from Fox saying, ‘Those characters are never going to appear on television again.’ So we downloaded it.”

It’s a shame the sequel never materialized. “Home” is one of those episodes that sticks with you, and it’s one of the most memorable. It would have been interesting to see how the family fared in a different environment and how they interacted with Frank Black.

Despite the lack of a sequel, ‘Home’ remains a testament to the show’s ability to push boundaries and tell shocking and inspiring stories. While the Peacock family may never appear on television again, their legacy lives on in the minds of X files fan.

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