Manhatan. (Yes, it was misspelled, read on.) In an architecture firm, a man carrying coffee (that’s real and from a secret stash in Hawaii) talks to a woman as the building shakes from tiny unexplained quakes. The man looks at a design as the woman leaves, the design is of the Pentagon. The tremors get [...]
Archives for the ‘fringe’ Category
February 5, 2010
Review: Fringe 2.15 – “Jacksonville”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, fringe
February 3, 2010
Review: Fringe 2.14 – “The Bishop Revival”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, fringe
Brookline, MA. A wedding is taking place at what appears to be an old tudor mansion. The Jewish groom is nervous and breathing hard, the Gentile bride is beautiful. The matriarch of the groom’s side notices a man in the back she doesn’t recognize. The groom takes his inhaler to the bathroom. The grandma repeats, [...]
January 22, 2010
Review: Fringe 2.13 – “What Lies Below”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, fringe
Boston, MA. Bike messenger stops at Vitas Petrol and catches an elevator with an older gentleman who starts sweating and bleeding from his nose. They both get off the elevator and the receptionist tells him he has to sign in, then he passes out and the bike runner tries to give him CPR but he [...]
January 19, 2010
Review: Fringe 2.12 – “Johari Window”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, fringe
Edina, NY. (Pronounced eh-DINE-uh)
A cop driving along a country road finds a boy walking along. He tells him to get in. He starts talking about running away when he looks again in the rear-view to see the boy’s face has changed; he’s now severely mutated. At the police station, two cops talk about actually seeing [...]
January 12, 2010
Review: Fringe 2.11 – “Unearthed”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, fringe
What? Charlie’s back? No, silly rabbit. This episode of Fringe was originally supposed to air in season 1 as episode 21. Thus I’m not going to give it the complete recap as it falls out of sequence with the rest of the series. It’s so bad, there’s a dead character in it.
For this I blame [...]
January 11, 2010
Review: Fringe 2.10 – “Grey Matters”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, fringe
Hennington Mental Health Institute, Boston. A man is being asked questions while some gloved and bloodied hands clean and sort tools behind him. The man with the tools is the man whose head was reattached in “Momentum Deferred.” He’s using tools to operate on the man’s brain. He’s asking him memory questions as he pulls [...]
January 8, 2010
Review: Fringe 2.9 – “Snakehead”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, fringe
Boston. Chinatown area. A sweating man stumbles down a night time street. He asks for directions, he is clearly distressed. Arriving at a building, he asks if any of the others made it. His host says he’s the first and is very nice to him. The older man takes him to the back room and [...]
November 24, 2009
Review: Fringe 2.8 – “August”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, fringe
Boston, MA. A hand opens a watch and makes some notes in an alien hand, all the while watching people in a park through classy flip-up binoculars and drinking from a small cup. The man is wearing a gray suit and fedora and has no hair on his head. He is like the Observer we’ve [...]
November 20, 2009
Review: Fringe 2.7 – “Of Human Action”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, fringe
Queens, New York. Police cars scream down the street, drive up to the top of a parking garage to a parked car. They get out and draw their weapons. Inside the car are two shifty looking guys and a teenage boy. The police tell the men to get out and they do and get on [...]
November 18, 2009
Review: Fringe 2.6 – “Earthling”
- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured, Reviews and Recaps, fringe
Boston, MA. A nice house/apartment. A man answers the phone as his wife calls and they talk about his traveling and his sick mom. He tells her he’s at the airport and they’re calling his flight, she understands and tells him she’ll be home in about five minutes. He’s actually setting up an anniversary surprise [...]