Archives for the ‘fringe’ Category

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 [...]

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November 16, 2009

Review: Fringe 2.5 – “Dream Logic”

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

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,Reviews and Recaps,fringe

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,Reviews and Recaps,fringe

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,Reviews and Recaps,fringe

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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Review: Fringe 2.1 – “A New Day in the Old Town”

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

…and we’re back. A quick recap of the season finale is in order. Thought not a cliffhanger, there are some parts that are integral to the story line in the premiere. The season one bad guy, David Robert Jones, is dead. He was trying to use equipment powered by a power cell from Nina Sharp’s [...]

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June 3, 2009

Review: Fringe 1.20 “There’s More Than One of Everything”

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

This is it folks, the season finale of one of the better shows on network TV. Will our questions be answered? Will Walter and William Bell be reunited? Will Olivia’s powers be fully realized? Will Nina Sharp stay dead? Will Astrid get more screen time? And where the hell is David Robert Jones? To compare [...]

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Review: Fringe 1.19 – “The Road Not Taken”

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

Broyles recaps ZFT as being behind The Pattern to the rest of the Federal Agency in Boston. He says William Bell is implicated and the feds need to find a link. Meanwhile we watch a panicky woman get on a bus asking if it goes by a hospital. She’s sweating and her breath is fogging [...]

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May 21, 2009

The New Network Fall 2009-10 Schedule

- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Chuck,Dollhouse,Featured,Heroes,News and Commentary,The Office,fringe,supernatural

Most of the networks have had their yearly “upfronts” where they announce next year’s schedule. Genre/sci-fi/cult shows are in italics. Here’s what we know for sure: MONDAY 8pm          ABC         Dancing with the Stars 8pm          FOX         House 8pm          NBC         Heroes (Chuck at midseason) 8pm          CBS          How I Met Your Mother 8pm          CW           Gossip Girl 8:30pm   CBS          [...]

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May 13, 2009

Reivew: Fringe 1.18 – “Midnight”

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

Boston downtown, a man is getting dressed in his apartment. In the background a news report is playing in which a reporter describes a brutal murder with a hunting knife. The man grabs a hunting knife off the table, his keys, phone and a couple condoms. Turns off the TV and heads out. Bob, with [...]

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