November 25, 2008 – 11:23 pm
So what does an extra-long episode of Fringe look like? Well, sort of like a regular episode, although bloated. Only fitting to show such an episode just before Thanksgiving, really. This week’s outing could be compared to your Uncle Ted about an hour after ingesting his body weight in cranberry sauce: not exactly the shining […]
November 18, 2008 – 11:36 pm
Let’s just call this episode of Fringe what it was: “The John Noble Hour!” And folks, that’s a mighty fine way to spend an hour, let me tell you. This week’s episode didn’t balance the personal and mythological as well as last week’s entry in the series, but the personal side was so damn good […]
November 11, 2008 – 11:12 pm
Chalk it up to Lucky Number Seven. Tonight, after a lengthy hiatus, we all got the first truly great episode of Fringe. It’s been fits and starts up until now as the show struggled to find its feet…its voice…its pattern (pun intended). But this edition provided some insight as to where the show could actually […]
November 3, 2008 – 9:13 pm
Well, fellow television geeks, we’re heading into that glorious time of the television schedule: Fall sweeps! Sure, given the fragmented nature of television viewing, this period means a little less that it used to, but nonetheless shows strive to pull out all the stops in order to maximize their most important asset: creativity. And by […]
October 21, 2008 – 10:16 pm
Tonight’s episode of Fringe was not for the squeamish. It’s not as if the show hasn’t ratcheted up the gore in episodes past, but the show’s prop master sure had to bust out bucket after bucket of fake blood this time round. But the gore was in service of what might have been the most […]
October 14, 2008 – 10:25 pm
Give Fringe this: it’s not often that the work of REO Speedwagon becomes a central part of the plot. Sure, we’ve all seen shows in which Toto points the way to the truth, or Air Supply saves the day, but it took the mind of J.J. Abrams to put REO Speedwagon into this rather limp […]
September 30, 2008 – 10:38 pm
I know that Fringe isn’t a comedy, but how many of you laughed out loud when Agent Broyles referred to a potential key to unlocking The Pattern as “The Observer?” I could hear the studio executives at CBS and TNT scrambling to put together a pilot based on that name alone. (”Sarah Michelle Gellar IS […]
September 23, 2008 – 10:19 pm
Another week, and another part of the Pattern emerges on Fringe. This particular part centered around what’s tantamount to a psychic friends network, of sorts. You know, if your psychic friends were interested in the logical extension of bizarre scientific experiments commissioned by the government during the Vietnam War. We all have those sorts of […]
September 16, 2008 – 10:04 pm
Here’s a bit of warning that the producers of Fringe should put ahead of every episode: “Do no watch if you’ve eaten anything in the past eight hours.” Good gravy, but this show likes to go graphic. There were times I wasn’t sure if I was watching the newest J.J. Abrams drama or National […]
Top 5 Sci-Fi Conspiracies
The introduction of Fringe into the television landscape brings to the forefront one of the my favorite tropes: the conspiracy! That’s right, that age-old, Rockwell-esque sensation that just below the surface of everyday life lurks something vast and sinister. In Fringe, it’s something called “The Pattern,” started in the 1970s in a Harvard laboratory and […]