Before the episode started last night, my husband and I were talking about how we like The Mentalist better. That annoys me, because generally speaking, I don’t like cop procedurals, and I don’t want to reward the networks (especially CBS) for repackaging the same show over and over. In theory, I love the [...]
I spent the first half of last week’s episode wondering what made Alias so much more compelling than Fringe. I spent the second half understanding it.
In any show I consider a success, the element that elevates it above “just okay” is the relationships. Fringe doesn’t quite reach that level, but those relationships are [...]
Fringe has been anything but inconsistent so far.
Things that haven’t changed:
1. FBI behavior that ignores the basics of safe law enforcement, not to mention pesky things like search and seizure laws.
2. Olivia Dunham’s look of intense concentration.
3. Walter’s quirky brain, remembering every single experiment he ever worked on or read about, but not the names [...]
This week’s episode of Fringe was more about expanding the show’s mythology rather than investigating a case. Yes, they had a mysterious thing happen and tried to gather facts about it, but they learned little to nothing and solved even less.
X-Files fans are all gleeful about the introduction of The Observer (this show’s counterpart [...]
According to TV Week, Fox has ordered more episodes of Fringe, for a total of 22 episodes this season. Fringe is only the second show debuting this year to have received a full season commitment from a network.
This week’s episode dealt with a clairvoyant and a compound that went from gas to solid so fast, it froze people mid-step and suffocated them.
And the show treated the clairvoyant as the fantastical element.
Yes, in real life, psychics are treated with a huge amount of skepticism if not outright hostility, but it’s not exactly unheard [...]
I was late watching the pilot of Fringe, and though I hadn’t read the reviews here (to avoid spoilers), I was aware of a wide range of opinions about the show, which covered both extremes. I landed somewhere in the middle, tempered in part by reading a quote by JJ Abrams that he liked [...]
It seems to me that J. J. Abrams has set this show up very well. We all know Mr. Abrams from shows like Alias and Lost and his recent film Cloverfield so it should be easy to see a sort of pattern with the types of shows he likes to make. In the television department [...]
The following review contains spoilers.
Fringe is a new fall series co-created by J.J. Abrams, executive producer and writer on shows like Lost and Alias, about a female FBI agent who works with a discredited scientist (the man has been an in-patient at a psychiatric facility for nearly two decades) and his estranged son to investigate [...]
I’ve been watching Angel to tide me over until the fall season starts. My local Netflix center hasn’t had the disks, so they’re coming from Michigan and Louisiana, and taking three days to arrive. It’s killing me.
Luckily, Fall TV 2008 starts tonight. Kind of. I’ve been getting my DVR situation straightened out (moving boxes around [...]
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