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Fringe took on a heavy legacy when it decided to name an episode after one of Philip K. Dick's greatest novels. But last night's spectacular episode actually delivered something approaching a PKD-level of insanity and neuron disruption. Spoilers ahead. More »
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Walter Bishop has already ruined one Earth and become one of the greatest destroyers in history — but is he doomed to do it again? Last night's disturbing Fringe made us wonder. Spoilers ahead... More »
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Fringe has beamed some pretty ooky science onto your retinas over the past couple of years — but last night's season premiere was likeliest to make your skin crawl. Turns out that both Walter Bishops like to experiment on Olivia. More »
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Fringe season two didn't end with a gonzo shock like the undamaged Twin Towers at the end of season one. But that's okay, because it gave us a zillion things to think about, especially in its final moments. Spoilers ahead... More »
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J.J. Abrams has unleashed two television shows about faith and science and strange reflections of reality. Fringe will never be as popular as Lost, but it has the potential to be far greater, as it proved last night. Spoilers below... More »
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Last Thursday's Fringe was the second of two "filler" episodes between Peter running away and the other shoe dropping. It wasn't our favorite episode, but there were five things about it that we really loved. Spoilers ahead... More »
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In mad scientist Walter Bishop's storytale version of reality, Walter's a lovable inventor who's created everything that little children love: rainbows, bubble gum, hugs... and singing corpses. Of course. Also, check out Gene the Cow's makeover! More »
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Last night's Fringe dipped about 10 percent in the ratings, which is a damned shame since this episode would have turned anyone into a die-hard fan of the show. Not to mention, leaving you obsessed with Walter Bishop. Spoilers ahead... More »
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We forgot everything about last night's Fringe episode as soon as we were done watching it — almost as if Peter Weller had traveled back in time to before it aired. Except for this one wonderful scene. Spoilers ahead... More »
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Last night's Fringe felt pretty run-of-the-mill after the previous week's incredible episode. Olivia dithered, Walter made taffy, and a creepy guy ran around giving people bubble-wrap face. Spoilers ahead... More »
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Last night, Fringe showed us a lot more of the alternate universe, including a somewhat different version of 1985. More importantly, we saw Young Walter, and learned just what kind of tool he was: a complicated, conflicted one. Spoilers ahead! More »
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Last night's Fringe, called "Jacksonville," was a frustrating blend of hair-raising freakery, revelatory moments, and repetitive emotional woo-woo. Regardless of whether you liked the woo-woo, you had to love all that solid information about the alternate timeline on Earth-1. More »
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I love Fringe to pieces, but last night's episode "The Bishop Revival" was surprisingly meh. Immortal Nazi scientists are always fun, but not when it turns into yet another reveal about the Bishop family of mad scientists. More »
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On Thursday night's Fringe, called "What Lies Below," we were introduced to an ancient supervirus - and learned Walter's darkest secret. More »
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Monday night's bonus episode of Fringe, "Unearthed," was actually a leftover episode from season one. Though odd continuity-wise, it did have one gem of a scene where Walter has a rage meltdown after being challenged by a Catholic priest. More »
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Last night's Fringe resolved a mystery that stretches back to the beginning of the series: the cause of Walter Bishop's mental disorders. All it takes is our team of dimension-hopping enemy supersoldiers and and a boatload of brain surgery. More »
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Last night's Fringe gave us a new monster nightmare: giant, tentacled worms that live inside their host until they come bursting out of their faces. But it turns out that not everyone minds an encounter with their fearsome fangs. More »
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They've been lurking in the background for the entire series, and last night, Fringe's bald Observers finally stepped into the limelight. Here's what we learned about the mysterious beings who've been spying on the Fringe team. More »
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Last night's episode featured a mind-controlling teenager with a penchant for violence. But that's not why Astrid has her tinfoil hat firmly in place. We also learned something sinister about our corporate friends at Massive Dynamic. More »
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With the World Series over, Fringe is finally back with a B-movie-inspired episode that plunges us into Russian fringe science, delves into Agent Broyles' past, turns people to ash, and has us wondering what the CIA is up to. More »
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On last night's Fringe we learned that stealing dreams is not only addictive, it can make some people feel downright stabby. Plus, Walter flexes his mad scientists muscles using a naive FBI agent and a flask of chloroform. More »
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Last night on Fringe, we drank worms, did drugs, and stole cryogenically frozen heads. But more importantly, we finally got to see Olivia's visit to the other universe, and hear Leonard Nimoy explain all about the coming interdimensional war. More »
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Last night's Fringe started out with unusual bang, in the form of a literal human bomb. Soon the Fringe team is blowing up watermelons, traveling to Iraq, and reminiscing about Peter's childhood Playboy jigsaw puzzle. Spoilers ahead. More »
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In last night's Fringe, a scorpion baby terrorizes a small town and reflects a father's desperate love. Also, Olivia learns the downside of superpowered hearing, and finds her guru working in a bowling alley. Spoilers ahead. More »
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Gene the cow put on her best party hat for last night's Fringe season premiere, an episode that brought us shapeshifters, transdimensional typewriters, a new team member, custard, and a kiss that revealed an unexpected alliance. Spoilers below... More »
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In last night's season finale of Fringe, there were some reality-splitting revelations and at least one crazy-ass Abrams lens flare moment. And it was awesome, but confusing to the uninitiated. Allow me to explain. Spoilers! More »
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All the conspiracies started to make sense last night on Fringe, in one of the most rewarding episodes ever for people who love the show's mythology. For those who don't, there were Trek jokes. Spoilers! More »
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Nothing like a little recreational spine-severing, Syphillis-engineering, and more hints about a secret underground science society known as ZFT. That's why last night's Fringe made us feel all grody-happy inside. Spoilers! More »
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We've been dying to know more about Olivia's strange powers, possibly connected to childhood experiments, and definitely connected to a vast science conspiracy involving supersoldiers. And in last night's Fringe, we got our wish. Spoilers! More »
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Fringe never lets me down. In last night's episode there was a giant monster that defied all laws of science and made me think of the Trogdor song from Homestar Runner. Spoilers ahead! More »
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In this week's Fringe, called "The No-Brainer," Olivia and the scoobies got to investigate their most cyber opponent yet: A pop-up window that turns people's brains to goo! Spoilers ahead, weirdos. More »
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Last night's episode of Fringe reminded me why I've fallen in love with this show: You've got your gooey mega-virus attacks, scary conspiracies, and Olivia fist-fighting her way through underground research facilities. Spoilers ahead! More »
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Last night was the last episode of mad science melodrama Fringe until January, and we're going to miss all those gory human experiments and underground, drug-taking researchers. I skipped Fringing out last week, so here's the only clip you need to see from that episode: Walter explaining what is best in life to Olivia. Last night brought some awesome Walter one-liners too. Spoilers ahead! More »
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I know I'm in danger of becoming a rampant apologist for Fringe, but goddamn it I really like this blood-soaked, dorky show. It's like a horror comic that I can't put down because just when the dialog or plot get completely preposterous, the writers throw in an exploding brain or conspiracy parasite or a kid in a mind-control helmet watching his mother rot while he invents a teleportation machine. Even though last night's episode had that kind of good stuff, the best part was watching mad scientist Walter and his rakish son Peter get all badass - and emotionally schmoopy. Spoilers ahead. More »
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Last night on JJ Abrams' series Fringe, we discovered that reanimating the damaged brain in a dead human body is a good way to explore family relationships. There have been hints all season that mad scientist Walter actually built emo son Peter as an experiment, and now thanks to a big old overshare (see clip) we know more about that. Did he really need to use a car battery when he had a giant lab with fancy crap in it? Spoilers ahead! More »
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If I'd had any doubts about Fringe becoming my new guilty pleasure, this week erased them. I am now officially a watcher of Fringe, rather than a sampler of it. Last night's episode "The Cure" gave us a healthy dose of WTF back story on several of our main characters — Agent Olivia and Mad Scientist Spawn Peter — as well as some frankly awesome exploding heads. It was the first time that the show really gelled, and I'll tell you why. Spoilers ahead! More »
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This week on Fringe, a hopeless dork who lives with his mom and has a dead-end job finds himself made into something "special" by science. Though this kind of plot crops up in nearly every Fringe episode, last night's "Power Hungry" gave it a unique (and funny) twist. And in the process it revealed what I think is probably one of the most powerful fantasy-lures that keeps people coming back to this show. Spoilers ahead, you maniacs. More »
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This week on The Walter Bishop Show, we follow the mad scientist himself on his quest for a root beer float, almost meet some more Bishop relatives, shoot pushy guns and watch Peter grow. But mostly, "The Arrival" marked the Fringe's journey into the deep dark world of torture porn — and on another positive note, this episode was happily piano-free. More »
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I know there are going to be Fringe haters out there the whole season, but I have to admit the show sort of won my heart last night. Maybe it was the moment mad scientist Walter Bishop started singing the words "when I was in a mental institution," or maybe it was the pro-homebrew drug agenda, or maybe it was the scene where an office drone freaks out and does cheesy comic book art in his cubicle. The weirdo dark comedy tone in the show really came together in last night's episode, "The Ghost Network," which was all about wiretapping the spirit world. OMG DEA FBI! Spoilers ahead! More »
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