FRINGE: Olivia Learns ‘We Will Never Forget’
I don’t know about you guys, but I am so happy FRINGE is back. Sure, we’ve survived longer hiatuses, but this one felt especially torturous. It’s easily one of the best shows on television and this...
View ArticleFRINGE: ‘Initiate Phase Two’
Bumpy plane ride, important numbers (including the digits 8, 15, and 42), plus a repeating message leading people to a destination? No, kids, you didn’t travel back in time and stumble upon an unaired...
View ArticleFRINGE: Olivia’s Message Is Heard
Hey, FRINGE fans! How insane was Thursday’s episode? Holy moly. The case was good — although it felt like it could have been played out in either universe — but we got a new look at alt-Broyles,...
View ArticleFRINGE: Order is Restored to the Universes
FRINGE fans, let’s take a moment to process all that went down in “Entrada.” How flipping good was that episode?! Was I the only one who finished the hour, literally shaking? This is what good...
View ArticleFRINGE: ‘Marionette’
Though last week’s FRINGE episode “Entrada” brought the culmination of storylines, action and some big revelations, “Marionette” was just as major in a more emotional way. Olivia is back home, people!...
View ArticleFRINGE: ‘The Firefly’
FRINGE is back! Is it a little weird I’m relieved this wasn’t the best episode the series has ever done? Don’t get me wrong — it was an absolutely solid hour. There were great performances from the...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Concentrate and Ask Again’
FRINGE fans, we could talk in depth about this week’s case (long story short: creepy dolls release toxins that melt the bones of their victims), but it appears we have a much more pressing matter on...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Immortality’
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View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘6B’
I think we kind of owe Canada an apology. For those of you who missed the second part of my interview with FRINGE showrunners Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman, when we discussed Friday’s episode, “6B,” I...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Subject 13′
Tonight’s episode of FRINGE once again took us back to the 80s — this time to the aftermath of Peter’s kidnapping from “over there.” Six months after he was taken, the ramifications were still playing...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Os’
So, um, that just happened on FRINGE. Unlike the last few episodes, Friday’s hour seemed to focus a fair deal on the “case of the week,” which was an issue we could tie back to the characters we love —...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Stowaway’
Let’s be honest FRINGE fans…this recap could very easily be a very long ode to the fantastic performance Anna Torv (Olivia) pulled off Friday night. Sitting here, I’m still a little in shock how well...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Bloodline’
FRINGE Friday! Savor this one, kids, because after tonight’s episode, we have a mini-hiatus. Boo! But we did get an early season four renewal, so…yeah, I can deal with this break. Before we start off...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Lysergic Acid Diethylamide’
So, um, that just happened. I mean, just when you think FRINGE can’t get more deliciously bizarre, the writers pull something like “Lysergic Acid Diethylamide.” What other show would be able to get...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘6:02 AM EST’
“I was never good at letting you go.” Oh, Walter. Everything inevitably comes back to the possibility of him losing his son and his stubborn refusal to accept that. And really, that’s why we’re in the...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘The Last Sam Weiss’
So, that just happened. Much like the Bad Robot-produced shows that came before it (hat tip to ALIAS and LOST), FRINGE has a way of giving us 58 minutes of mind-blowing storytelling and then completely...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘The Day We Died’
Given the events that happened in “The Day We Died,” I had no idea how to even begin this recap. But then I recalled what FRINGE executive producer Jeff Pinkner told me when I mentioned jumping into...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Neither Here Nor There’
“They don’t remember Peter.” “How could they? He never existed.” With those words, the third season finale of FRINGE broke our brains a teeny tiny bit. Immediately after Peter bridged the two universes...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘One Night in October’
“One Night in October” isn’t technically a big hour for the series. It’s not a season premiere or a season finale or even an episode with an event so major that fans would naturally point to it as a...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Alone in the World’
Walter Bishop, how you break my heart. Fresh off Peter begging for Walter’s help, we begin “Alone in the World” with Walter getting a visit from Dr. Sumner. Apparently in this timeline, Dr. Sumner...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Subject 9′
A few weeks back, I pointed to “One Night in October” as a prime example of how even in its smaller episodes, FRINGE excels. “Subject 9″? Clearly not a small episode. To call it the biggest hour of the...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Novation’
FRINGE (and Peter) have finally returned after a hiatus that lasted entirely too long, wouldn’t you say? But after viewing tonight’s brand new episode, “Novation,” you know things aren’t entirely back...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘And Those We’ve Left Behind’
“You, Peter. You’re the problem.” Oh, Dream!Olivia. How your words wound. And yet…she’s not entirely wrong. Peter is back and as fans of the series, it arguably makes our viewing experience more...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Wallflower’
“I’ve been investigating Fringe events for three years. I never thought I’d become one.” Oh, Peter. You are a Fringe event, but unfortunately for you, you aren’t what the team is investigating this...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Back to Where You’ve Never Been’
“Not everything is as it seems.” Well, if there was any line that summed up “Back to Where You’ve Never Been,” it certainly was that. We got double-crossing, dreams and much, much more. Given how many...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Enemy of My Enemy’
It’s very weird to talk about FRINGE on an episode-by-episode basis, because in many ways, it feels like we should be “judging” this season as an entire arc — more so than any other season in the past...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Forced Perspective’
In many ways, FRINGE’s “Forced Perspective” is the most difficult episode of the season to write about (so far). With the big “mythology” episodes, you can pick apart what we’ve learned, what has...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Welcome to Westfield’
This season of FRINGE has been a bit…off. After all, previous to this, it had been 11 full episodes since we got to see “our” versions of Walter and Olivia, and I’ll speak for myself in saying that...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘A Better Human Being’
FRINGE giveth, FRINGE taketh away. Episodes like “A Better Human Being” are exactly why I can’t write these recaps as I watch the episode the first time around. Sure, you think the hour is going one...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘The End of All Things’
I’ve said it multiple times, but a FRINGE series that can be one thing for the first 58 minutes of an episode and then the last two minutes change everything you thought you knew. “The End of All...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘A Short Story About Love’
As frustrating as I found the end of the last FRINGE episode, “A Better Human Being,” to be, the conclusion of “A Short Story About Love” was equally — if not more so — rewarding. I know, I know, we...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Nothing As It Seems’
True to the episode’s title, FRINGE’s “Nothing As It Seems” was, well, nothing like it seemed. The hour seemed to be an easy enough case (a rehash of season 1’s “The Transformation”), but it ended...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Everything In Its Right Place’
I’m in a little bit of an awkward situation while trying to recap Friday’s episode of FRINGE because thanks to a certain appropriate-for-this-recap work trip, I don’t have my handy-dandy DVR. And boy,...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘The Consultant’
As we inch closer to the end of the season on FRINGE, so much is going down that it’s understandable there needs to be a significant amount of set-up to get us to there. It’s not a bad thing, per se,...
View ArticleFRINGE Episode 19 Recap: ‘Letters of Transit’
For as bizarre as the 19th episode of FRINGE tends to be, what made “Letters of Transit” so freaking terrifying is that what happened didn’t seem impossible. It wasn’t a musical noir. It wasn’t an...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Worlds Apart’
First of all, let’s start this off with a “yay” for FRINGE’s fifth season renewal! It’s bittersweet the end is near, but I’m so glad things will get the chance to properly be wrapped up. But before we...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Brave New World, Part 1′
You know those moments where you feel a show has been leading up to something for a while and finally they tip their hand just the teeniest of bits? Well, welcome to FRINGE’s “Brave New World, Part 1.”...
View ArticleFRINGE Season 4 Finale Recap: ‘Brave New World, Part 2′
It’s very weird to write about a FRINGE finale and not immediately have the urge to jump to talking about the ending that blew my mind. I get the reasoning of why the writers decided to go down this...
View ArticleFRINGE Season Premiere Recap: ‘Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11′
We’re back to the future in FRINGE’s final season premiere, picking up the morning after season 4’s “Letters of Transit” left off. The only real glimpse of the 24 years we’ve missed comes from Peter’s...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘In Absentia’
For as much as went down in “In Absentia,” there isn’t a whole lot to recap, so instead, I wanted to focus in on a couple of things that have been nagging in my brain in the days that have passed since...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘The Recordist’
I’m so very curious to hear what you guys thought of Friday’s episode of FRINGE, “The Recordist,” because I can’t remember a time when a non-myth heavy/season finale hour of the show split my friends...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘The Bullet That Saved the World’
[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the FRINGE episode, “The Bullet That Saved the World.” If you haven’t seen it yet, go watch it now and then come back to read our recap.] Warning: I think...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘An Origin Story’
Back when Peter Bishop was wiped from existence at the end of FRINGE season 3, some fans (including LOST co-creator Damon Lindelof) believed the way he’d be worked back into the show would be by him...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There’
So, I’m really torn about “Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There.” Much like “The Recordist,” I feel like the reaction to this episode has been split. Some delighted in the smaller...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Five-Twenty-Ten’
This. This is what I want from a FRINGE episode. It may be oversimplifying things, but Nina Sharp was very much needed this season. I get that she’s one of the “minor” regular characters, but look at...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘The Human Kind’
Despite some of the FRINGE episode titles being super literal this season, I was a little afraid to get too attached to tonight’s title. (“The Human Kind,” in case you missed this post’s headline or...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Black Blotter’
I…don’t even know where to start with Friday’s episode of FRINGE. I suppose that’s a good thing, really. Right now my brain is everywhere and nowhere and very much still in the immediate “WTF did I...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘Anomaly XB-6783746′
[This post contains spoilers for the FRINGE episode “Anomaly XB-6783746.” Please don’t read this until you’ve viewed the episode, or important aspects of the hour will be ruined for you.] FRINGE fans,...
View ArticleFRINGE Recap: ‘The Boy Must Live’
As we draw very close to FRINGE’s final hours — the last two episodes of the entire series air next Friday — I’m so glad I’ve had a couple weeks to mull over what went down and what that could possibly...
View ArticleFRINGE Series Finale Recap: ‘Liberty’/’An Enemy of Fate’
Don’t you know? All good stories start with “once upon a time” and end with “happily ever after!” – Ella, “Brown Betty” And so, we’ve reached the end of FRINGE. In season 2’s “Brown Betty,” Walter...
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