The good, the bad, the Spock. It was all there, with an episode that was good but not great, especially by the show’s increasingly excellent standards.
In short: “Fringe” has gone from “competent” to “one of the five best shows on TV” over the course of its first season, but tonight’s episode didn’t quite live up […]
April 21, 2009 – 10:50 pm
That was some good and tasty mythology, “Fringe“. Well played.
I’d make the “Ya down with ZFT/Yea you know me!” jokes, but the missus says I go to the Naughty by Nature well too often. So you’ll have to just read my full recap to get the scoop on tonight’s must see episode.
Guess who’s back…back again…Dunham’s back…tell a friend.
Yup, “Fringe” finally returned tonight with a ho-hum episode that featured a psychic albino boy. Think “a mute version of the dude from the movie Powder” and you’re close.
Check out my full recap.
February 10, 2009 – 11:39 pm
OK, let’s get this out of the way up top: that was easily the best episode of Fringe so far, living up to the hype of last summer, laying down the central conflict of the show, and exploding our minds with mythological overload. I need a cigarette. Oh wait, I don’t smoke.
February 3, 2009 – 11:04 pm
C’mon, admit it: you cackled in hysterics at seeing the fried dog man. It’s OK to admit: that was straight up hysterical. My notes in trying to ascertain what Marshall Bowman would eventually morph into read as follows: “Hulk… Dr. Jekyll… werewolf… HEDGEHOG?” I went from thinking we’d see MARSHALL SMASH to having visions of […]
January 27, 2009 – 11:28 pm
Fringe wants you to learn a very important lesson: do not click pop up ads! Did you hear that, ye net-savvy people? Don’t do it! Pop up ads apparently aren’t for soccer moms anymore: they’re for everyone! In some cases, you’ll be whisked to a site that wants to sell you amazingly absorbent wash cloths […]
January 20, 2009 – 11:23 pm
Hey, Fringe fanatics, good to see you again. It’s a new year, there’s a new President of the United States, and there’s another Pattern of the Week that had me giggling/squirming/wincing at the very site of it. However, this episode was anything but (get ready for it) sluggish. I know, I’m not proud of that […]
December 2, 2008 – 11:22 pm
Fringe is all about a world in which science is pushed to the limit. It’s sorta like taking the highway to the danger zone, but not in a Tom Cruise way. More like an Albert Einstein/Stephen Hawking way. Up until now, each exhibit in the worldwide experiment known as The Pattern has been isolated. Its […]
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 […]