Archives for the ‘fringe’ Category

September 27, 2009

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

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

…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,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

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,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

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,fringe,Heroes,News and Commentary,supernatural,The Office

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,fringe,Reviews and Recaps

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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May 5, 2009

Review: Fringe 1.17 – “Bad Dreams”

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

A lady pushes her small child in a stroller down an underground walkway. It’s Grand Central Station in NY. It’s either late or she’s heading toward a lonely line because there’s no one else around. A man walks toward her from the other direction and she shows a sense of unease until he tips his [...]

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May 3, 2009

Review: Fringe 1.16 – “Unleashed”

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

Olivia is reading the Burlap Bear to Ella. Rachel says it’s bedtime as a call comes in from Peter, he wants to talk to Rachel and Olivia finds it odd. (PS, Burlap Bear doesn’t exist, but whoever they got to draw it made it look interesting.) Rachel laughs on the phone and Olivia continues reading. [...]

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April 28, 2009

Season Finale List

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

It’s almost time for the summer season. That means most of the genre shows we enjoy are ending. Here is a list of the season finale dates for several of the shows we discuss: Monday, April 27 Chuck (NBC), 8 p.m. Heroes (NBC), 9 p.m. Friday, May 8 Dollhouse (Fox), 9:01 p.m. Tuesday,  May 12 [...]

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April 10, 2009

Review: Fringe 1.15 – “Inner Child”

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

It’s been a while since Olivia Dunham and the Bishops have entertained us with their fact hunting and pseudo-scientific escapades. We don’t get a recap of events so I’ll provide a quick update. Agent Dunham works for the FBI. Her boss, Philip Broyles, has assigned her to work on any cases having to do with [...]

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Fringe Glyphs Deciphered!

- by Chris Piers | Filed under: Featured,fringe,Lost,News and Commentary

A Fringe fan and clever code-cracker named Julian Sanchez has figured out that the glyphs shown as Fringe goes to and returns from commercials refer to letters of the alphabet. You can read about how he figured it out at his blog here. What’s cool is that each episode’s glyphs spell out a word that [...]

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