FRINGE 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 visits Walter every month as one of the conditions for Walter being allowed to live away from St. Claire’s. However, thanks […]

FRINGE 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 prime example of the show. And yet hours like these are exactly why FRINGE is one […]

FRINGE 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 — and thereby preventing the destruction of at least one — he promptly disappeared from existence. And then the show went off […]

FRINGE 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 the future for the finale was game-changing: “If you could allow us to tease for a second, it’s […]

FRINGE 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 turning everything you thought you knew on its head in the last minute and a half. “The Last Sam Weiss” […]

FRINGE 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 position we’re in on FRINGE, isn’t it? Walter simply loved his son too much to let him die. When […]

FRINGE 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 away with things like that and have it be wholly believable? Can you imagine what that pitch was like from the writers […]

FRINGE 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 with the meat of the episode, did anyone else notice the odd camera angles for certain parts of the hour? […]

FRINGE 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 the show and Torv managed to pull this Bell-livia twist off. Torv channeling Leonard Nimoy’s William Bell at the end […]

FRINGE 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 — what a father was willing to do to “save” his son — while paying less […]

FRINGE 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 out in both universes and this look back allowed another layer of the mystery to be unraveled to reveal entanglements […]

FRINGE 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 brought up the spoilery Canadian promo. Neither of them had seen the promo in question, but when I mentioned […]

FRINGE Recap: ‘Immortality’

par·a·site –noun 1. an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment. 2. a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful. When FRINGE executive producer Jeff Pinkner teased that tonight’s episode […]

FRINGE 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 our hands: Peter’s love life has suddenly become the most important aspect of the ongoing mythology. It’s one of […]

FRINGE: ‘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 regular suspects and Christopher Lloyd was a fantastic guest star as the former rock star Roscoe Joyce. But […]