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I watched "Inner Child" last night, a first season episode of Fringe. It's the best example so far of the show's tendency to introduce two ideas and have them converge. In this case, Olivia's pursuit of a serial killer turns out to be aided by the simultaneous discovery of a feral child in an abandoned building with special powers ( Read more... )

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I managed to get Fringe working again after it hadn't been playing on Amazon Prime for me for some reason. Last night I watched the first season episode "The Transformation", one of the best episodes so far. A man transforms into what I might best describe as a were-porcupine on an airplane ( Read more... )

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Last night I watched "The Equation", another episode from the first season of Fringe. It's another episode that feels distinctly X-Files-ish, with a plot about geniuses being abducted to solve a mysterious equation ( Read more... )

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I watched episode seven of Fringe last night, written by JJ Abrams and Jeff Pinkner. I had no idea JJ Abrams could be so clever, not that I'm a hater of his Star Trek and Star Wars movies. But this episode of Fringe feels oddly more like a classic Star Trek episode than his Star Trek movies ever did ( Read more... )

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Last night I watched "Power Hungry", the fifth episode of Fringe which guest starred Ebon Moss-Bachrach as a man who unintentionally causes machines around him to become deadly. I know Moss-Bachrach from the first season of The Punisher, in which he was really good. So it was nice seeing him. The episode itself wasn't bad except it falls prey to ( Read more... )

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Last night I watched the second episode of Fringe, "The Same Old Story", which aired September 16, 2008. I got some strong X Files vibes off this one, though not at all in a bad way. It was fun watching the trio investigate a serial killer who impregnates prostitutes with rapidly aging foetuses ( Read more... )

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