One of the best written dances between darkness and light in recent television is the comparison of the two universes in Fringe. While we might have wanted to remain in the relative ease of black versus white, the production team has added so many shades of grey that it makes a discussion about ethics, such… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 13: “Immortality” Part II
Cockroaches. I hate them. With a passion. And so, a very unusual something happened to me while watching this episode of Fringe: I closed my eyes. Thrice. Once when a cockroach came out of the first victim’s nostril (shudder), once when Altivia had cockroaches crawling all over her (double shudder) and again when Silva pulled… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 13: “Immortality” Part I
I have been regularly reviewing Fringe for a little over a year now and I still absolutely love the show. While I don’t post reviews on Sahar’s Blog anymore, but rather, on Sahar’s Reviews, I thought it pertinent to post an essay I wrote about the concept of grief, letting go and Faith inspired by… Read More Fringe: Grief, Letting Go, and Faith in “6B”
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”
While I was disappointed this episode “6B” didn’t turn out to be a ghost story in the end, one of my favourite genres, I totally loved the way the Fringe production team managed, in its own way, to explore the concept. Just think about it: the setting was typical to a ghost story genre (an… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 14: “6B”
Amidst rumours of cancellation and a after a huge wave of panic amongst fans, Fringe delivered yet another fantastic episode; “Concentrate and Try Again” touched upon both the human drama at the heart of Fringe as well as upon the overarching plotline. I loved this episode for many reasons. For one, I always love an… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 12: Concentrate and Ask Again
This latest episode of Fringe drops more hints and clues, and plot twists that indicate that we are again in for a crazy end-of- season ride. For the sake of my poor readers, my editors and I have decided post the review in two parts. The first part is meant to be more plot oriented,… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 11: Reciprocity
The final episode of Fringe before the Christmas hiatus left us hanging, just like such an episode always does. And, true to form, it leaves us hanging both with purely sci-fi related questions as well as questions regarding the human drama at the heart of the show. On her first case back on the right… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 9: Marionette
The return of Fringe after the Christmas hiatus was much anticipated, as not only the two universes seem to be bound on a collision course, but the fate of star struck lovers Peter and Olivia… OK, fine, they are not quite the star struck lovers, nor are they really lovers at this point, but whatever… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 10: The Firefly
Wyman and Pinkner, the executive producers of Fringe, always say that at the heart of their show is a human drama. And it’s episodes like this one that put the emphasis on the importance of the human factor of the show. For Olivia (Anna Torv) to have a way out of the alternate universe, she… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 7: The Abducted