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
Welcome to a whole new year of reviews! For those of you who are new, welcome. Those of you who have been reading me for the last year, thank you for coming back – it’s always a pleasure to read your comments and emails. This year’s first couple of reviews are going to be a… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 3, Episode 1: Olivia
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
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
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.
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
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
It’s the second week of the hiatus, and I have to admit – I’m kind of glad. On the one hand, the pressure of making too many episodes without any breaks could have an effect on the quality of said episodes, and since the quality in Fringe’s episodes has been steadily going up, I want… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2: Hiatus Reflections of a Deprived Fan, part II
Fringe is a show so rich in content that the hiatus is a bonus of sorts. Yes it’ll be hard to tough it out before seeing what is going to happen (how is Peter going to find out that he is ‘glimmery’, and how will he react? Will Walter become more like his older self,… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Seasons 2: Hiatus Reflections of a Deprived Fan
Weddings are stressful enough already without having something kill off 14 guests and bridal party members. Unfortunately, this is what happens to the Milton-Staller couple in the beginning of this episode of Fringe. The only clue we have as to the identity of the perpetrator of the crime is a young man, somewhere in his… Read More TV Review: Fringe, Season 2, Episode 14: The Bishop Revival