My Struggle (Knausgård novels) published as "The End: My Struggle Book 6". The title of the series, of both the English translation and the original Norwegian, is a translation of "Mein Kampf" and is thus a clear reference to Hitler. In an essay for the "New Yorker"s website, Evan Hughes explains how Knausgård, in interviews, "has argued that a frightening characteristic that connects "Mein Kampf" to the writings of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Utøya massacre, is that in the mind behind both texts there seems to be an 'I' and a 'we' but no 'you,' reflecting a dangerous blindness that allowed
My Struggle (The X-Files) Club" largely derided "My Struggle", writing that "it indulges in all of [Chris Carter's] worst [writing] tendencies". He was particularly critical of the episode's expository monologues. Ultimately, he wrote that "the first episode demonstrates some of The X-Files' weaker tendencies, though it possesses a hokey charm, one that comes from pretending as though the past 15 years of television never happened". After the episode aired, "The A.V. Club" writer Zack Handlen later awarded the episode a "C+" and called it "a mess. But it's a clean mess, if that makes sense, one that at least shows the courtesy of cauterizing