Archives for the ‘fringe’ Category

January 12, 2010

Review: Fringe 2.11 – “Unearthed”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

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 [...]

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January 11, 2010

Review: Fringe 2.10 – “Grey Matters”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

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 [...]

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January 8, 2010

Review: Fringe 2.9 – “Snakehead”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

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 [...]

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November 24, 2009

Review: Fringe 2.8 – “August”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

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 [...]

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November 20, 2009

Review: Fringe 2.7 – “Of Human Action”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

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 [...]

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November 18, 2009

Review: Fringe 2.6 – “Earthling”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

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 [...]

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November 16, 2009

Review: Fringe 2.5 – “Dream Logic”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

Boston.  Sam Weiss’s bowling alley.  Agent Olivia Dunham arrives after hours to return the bowling shoes and to thank Sam for helping her get her memories back.  He gives her a long look, then asks who died.  They talk about her problems and he suggests finding something that will help her make sense of it [...]

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October 23, 2009

Review: Fringe 2.4 – “Momentum Deferred”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

Medford, MA.  Couple guys are taking cryogenically frozen heads from a facility.  A car pulls up and the driver gets out eating an apple, asks for directions, then starts shooting the guards.  One of the men is with the shooter and tells him to let him know when they find something.  The shooter takes the [...]

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October 21, 2009

Review: Fringe 2.3 – “Fracture”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  A cop car pulls over and one officer gets out to get coffee.  The driver gets a call on a cell phone.  He’s instructed to go to the train station and intercept a man in a trench coat with a black suit case.  He drives off, leaving his partner.  At the station he [...]

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September 27, 2009

Review: Fringe 2.2 – “Night of Desirable Objects”

- by Ben Rollman | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

First off, we have a new intro. It’s Nina Sharp recapping who works in the Fringe Division and what their emerging purpose is. Pennsylvania. There’s a construction/road work team wrapping up for the day. On one man’s truck radio, the local news continues the story of the six local missing persons. One man forgets something [...]

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