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TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 5: Amber 31422

Fringe is back from its hiatus! The story continues and the plot thickens with new layers of understanding as Walternate (John Noble) and Alt!Brandon (Ryan MacDonald) start experimenting on Olivia (Anna Torv) to figure out how she can cross over on her own. More ethical lines are crossed in this episode, which makes the alternate… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 5: Amber 31422

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TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 4: Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?

Fringe writers are at it again. Close calls happened throughout the episode; did Peter know? Or didn’t he? Until the very last second of the episode, we didn’t quite know; but methinks Peter doesn’t know, or, at the very least, what doubts he had were blown to bits by Altivia’s, erm, ‘intervention’. Quick recap: Senator… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 4: Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?

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TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 3: The Plateau

The third episode of Fringe’s third season continues to intrigue. Back in The Other Side, a mad genius bent on revenge set off meticulously planned chains of events that end in the death of those he perceives as doing him harm. The series continues to enjoy using recurring images and situations (see my review of… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 3: The Plateau

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TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 2: The Box

The Fringe ride continues with Season 3’s second episode, entitled “The Box”, in which a seeming monster-of-the-week plot quickly turns out to be entwined closely with the show’s mytharc.  Altivia (Anna Torv) is in our universe and, with Newton’s help (played by Sebastian Roché), she gleans more information about our Fringe Division and infiltrates it… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 2: The Box

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Creating a New Mind with a little help from Dana Scully and Peter Bishop

So I decided to read the first chapter of Creating a New Mind again. It comes a day after I indulged in an episode of Fringe, which (as those of you who also follow my other blog, Sahar’s Reviews, already know) is one of my favourite TV shows. One of the main themes in Fringe… Read More Creating a New Mind with a little help from Dana Scully and Peter Bishop

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TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 19: The Man from the Other Side

He finally knows. This week’s episode of Fringe was the culmination of weeks of taunting and tormenting. The cat is finally out of the bag as Peter found out about his otherworldly origins. It was in a simple and rather undramatic way that he found out, but it made for a great scene. This episode… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 19: The Man from the Other Side

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TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 18: White Tulip

As Aaron would say, there are no plot holes in Fringe. Now while this is not always the case (and Aaron might have been a little sarcastic), “White Tulip” certainly doesn’t seem to have any plot holes, which is rather unusual for a story about time travel. It’s a normal evening; harried workers are heading… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 18: White Tulip

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TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 17: Olivia. In the Lab. With the revolver.

It was one of the shortest hours on television in, well, a week. It was so short in fact that when someone mentioned there was only 10 minutes left, I checked three watches before realising that he was right – it was already 21h50 and there was only 10 minutes left in the episode. You… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 17: Olivia. In the Lab. With the revolver.

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TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 16: Peter – part II

Before jumping into the rest of this episode’s review, the fact that the entirety of this episode (apart from the first and last scenes between Olivia and Walter) comes from Walter’s memory needs to be underlined and quite thoroughly so. After all, Walter has shown in the last year and half that his memory isn’t… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 16: Peter – part II

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TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 16: Peter – part I

Oh, how this show just keeps getting better and better. While it might somewhat be related to the feverish anticipation of the last couple of days, fanned by an eight-week hiatus and a Twitter #Fringe movement, the topmost reasons why this episode instantly became a fan favourite are fourfold. First, the amazing storytelling made the… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 16: Peter – part I