FRINGE Series Finale Recap: ‘Liberty’/’An Enemy of Fate’
January 18, 2013 by Marisa Roffman
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Don’t you know? All good stories start with “once upon a time” and end with “happily ever after!” – Ella, “Brown Betty”
And so, we’ve reached the end of FRINGE. In season 2’s “Brown Betty,” Walter tried to end the musical noir tale he was telling Ella, Olivia’s niece, in a pretty morbid way. But Ella would have none of that — she wanted a happy ending. So she concocted another alternative to how the story ended. Was it better? Was it worse? That was probably in the eye of the individual viewer.
I think a lot of people will feel the same way about tonight’s FRINGE series finale.
FRINGE Recap: ‘The Boy Must Live’
January 11, 2013 by Marisa Roffman
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As we draw very close to FRINGE’s final hours — the last two episodes of the entire series air next Friday — I’m so glad I’ve had a couple weeks to mull over what went down and what that could possibly mean for the course of the show.
FRINGE Recap: ‘Anomaly XB-6783746′
December 22, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
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[This post contains spoilers for the FRINGE episode “Anomaly XB-6783746.” Please don’t read this until you’ve viewed the episode, or important aspects of the hour will be ruined for you.]
FRINGE Recap: ‘Black Blotter’
December 15, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
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I…don’t even know where to start with Friday’s episode of FRINGE.
I suppose that’s a good thing, really. Right now my brain is everywhere and nowhere and very much still in the immediate “WTF did I just see?” phase, so my thoughts are incredibly jumbled. Which given what the heck we saw in “Black Blotter” feels fairly appropriate.
FRINGE Recap: ‘The Human Kind’
December 8, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
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Despite some of the FRINGE episode titles being super literal this season, I was a little afraid to get too attached to tonight’s title. (“The Human Kind,” in case you missed this post’s headline or any of the other posts I wrote about the show this week.) Was it about Peter’s rapidly deteriorating humanity? Olivia’s fight to save him? Something else entirely?
This episode was an important one. Several times over the past couple of months, Joshua Jackson (Peter) pointed to his character needing to be at a certain place by episode 4 (when Etta died), and then mentioned episode 8, and then the finale. And after watching tonight’s hour, it’s pretty clear why it stuck out in his mind.
FRINGE Recap: ‘Five-Twenty-Ten’
November 16, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
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This.
This is what I want from a FRINGE episode.
It may be oversimplifying things, but Nina Sharp was very much needed this season. I get that she’s one of the “minor” regular characters, but look at what she brought to this episode. Heck, at the very least, thanks to her presence, we touched more on the Bell/Walter dynamic, which is so much a part of the DNA of the series.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
FRINGE Recap: ‘Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There’
November 9, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
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So, I’m really torn about “Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There.”
Much like “The Recordist,” I feel like the reaction to this episode has been split. Some delighted in the smaller moments, the callbacks to the things probably only the most hardcore fans would get, etc. Others seem to be frustrated with the slower pace of storytelling and very little of Peter’s newfound Observerdom being addressed. And once again, I find myself stuck in the middle of these two views.
FRINGE Recap: ‘An Origin Story’
November 3, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
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Back when Peter Bishop was wiped from existence at the end of FRINGE season 3, some fans (including LOST co-creator Damon Lindelof) believed the way he’d be worked back into the show would be by him becoming an Observer. Heck, Joshua Jackson (Peter) even came out at that year’s Comic-Con panel dressed in full Observer gear. (Though, he lamented not being able to shave his head for the occasion.)
FRINGE Recap: ‘In Absentia’
October 5, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
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For as much as went down in “In Absentia,” there isn’t a whole lot to recap, so instead, I wanted to focus in on a couple of things that have been nagging in my brain in the days that have passed since I first saw the episode…
FRINGE Recap: ‘The Consultant’
April 14, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
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As we inch closer to the end of the season on FRINGE, so much is going down that it’s understandable there needs to be a significant amount of set-up to get us to there. It’s not a bad thing, per se, but tonight’s episode certainly felt like an hour that will mean more in hindsight — especially since a good portion of it felt like it served to be a puzzle piece being revealed, but not yet fully placed on the board.
So let’s talk about what we learned…
FRINGE Recap: ‘Nothing As It Seems’
March 31, 2012 by Marisa Roffman
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True to the episode’s title, FRINGE’s “Nothing As It Seems” was, well, nothing like it seemed.
The hour seemed to be an easy enough case (a rehash of season 1’s “The Transformation”), but it ended up…on a boat with about 3,231,526 more questions. Because I really want to try and have a group mind meld so we can figure out what the frak is going on, let’s briefly touch on what actually went down before we try and figure out the implications…
