The central theme to the plot of Season 3’s fourteenth episode, “6B”, is “letting go”. Olivia had to let go of what happened between Altivia and Peter if she wanted to have a relationship with him, and Mrs. Merchant had to let go of her husband to close the hole her grief was creating. By… Read More Fringe: Grief, Letting Go, and Faith in “6B”
Considering the past helps us trace the path to the future before us a lot better – or so it is hoped. By going back to the 1980s to explore the consequences of what happened after Walter brought Peter to our side from the alternate universe, we can also understand better Walter’s recent reactions to,… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 15: Subject 13 – Part I
The concept of evil has been a recurrent theme in Fringe. With the introduction of Walternate’s extreme focus on revenge, at the price of the life of his own son, it feels like this theme is going to come at the forefront of many a review and fan discussion forum this season. One of the… Read More Good and Evil in Fringe’s “The Box”
Fans have been clamouring for a Peter-centric episode for quite some time now, especially after the big reveal in “The Man from the Other Side.” “Northwest Passage” definitely delivered, using a monster-of-the-week type story to further develop Peter’s character while topping the episode off with a reveal that makes the upcoming two-part finale all the… Read More TV Review: Fringe – “Northwest Passage”
The 19th episode of the Fringe‘s third season is, as the name implies, quite a trip. Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) is a powerful hallucinogenic semi-synthetic drug that induces psychotic symptoms similar to schizophrenic episodes. It is no coincidence that this drug is the choice for Walter and Bell’s experiments. The drug is a perfect cast… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 19 : Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, Part I
It is becoming harder and harder for me to review episodes of Fringe, knowing that the end is nigh. I realise that the writers are doing a good job with the time limit they have. But I worry that I will be so disappointed by the finale, scheduled to air on 18 January, that it… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 5, Episode 8: The Human Kind
Only in Fringe would two beacons, a silent bald kid, a toxin that hideously melts flesh, and another one that horrifically closes all orifices all have in common the future of humanity. In this, the seventh episode of the fifth and final season of the award-winning show, we continue following Walter, Olivia, Peter and Astrid… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 5, Episode 7: Five-Twenty-Ten
The sixth episode of the fifth and last season of Fringe seems to mark a return to the show’s roots. We were treated to an episode that seemed to finish only mere minutes after it began, a distinct sign of a great hour of storytelling. In sharp contrast to the previous episodes, there was not… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 5, Episode 6: Through The Looking Glass And What Walter Found There
And voilà: Fringe seems to have bounced back. I hate to admit it, but Etta’s death last episode did seem to bring a je ne sais quoi back to the show that had been a little lacking in the last couple of episodes. My friend Monica is completely right in saying that with Etta’s death,… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 5, Episode 5: An Origin Story
I took a bit longer than anticipated to watch last week’s episode of Fringe, “The Bullet that Saved the World”. An avid Twitter user, I understood from the tweets of fellow Fringe fans that something bad would happen, and I wanted to delay the inevitable. Etta’s death, while adding a layer of emotional complexity to… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 5, Episode 4: The Bullet that Saved the World