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• "Fringe" Moves To Canada; Blame New York

  Turns out Fringe is the first of what we assume will be many casualties of the recent drying up of tax credits for television production in NYC... Read More... Posted Feb 24 2009, 04:20 PM by Lindy Parker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Fringe, Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv

• Hey, Is "Fringe" Finally Going Somewhere?

  We've not remarked much upon the latest episodes of Fringe. Although we've kept watching and enjoying, there wasn't really much to report in the last few weeks, other than the producers seem intent on hiring everyone who has ever worked with David Simon. We weren't learning anything new about Massive Dynamic or The Pattern, there's been no smoochie-boochie between Olivia and Peter, no substantive revelations about Dr. Bishop... frankly, we were kind of starting to wonder if anything really mattered on this show. Sure, it's been compelling, creepy stuff at times, but correct us if we're wrong, but when nearly every episode supposedly deals with the overarching conspiracy, you'd really expect a show to start actually, you know, revealing something now and then. Right? Heck, if every episode of The X-Files or Lost had been about Mulder's sister or the Dharma Initiative, they'd have found Samantha by the end of the first season and Jack Shephard would have been home to see the Red Sox win the World Series. But Fringe? No. All that running in place -- however thrilling and littered with trips to the tank -- was starting to bug us. And then, blammo -- last night we got a couple of really juicy reveals... just in time for Fringe to go away until April? Spoilers ahead... Read More... Posted Feb 11 2009, 01:36 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: Fringe, Anna Torv, John Noble, Fight Club

• "Fringe": How Not To Put The "Power" Into "Power Ballads"

  OK, another middlingish episode this week from JJ and the boys -- particularly in its supposedly-out-of-place use of a certain 1980's love song, something that's been done dozens of times more effectively elsewhere -- and yet we're not dissuaded. We still think the show's one of the best offerings in this somewhat meager year -- but we are starting to see where we might have problems down the road. Problem number one: it's turning out to be more Alias than Lost. Click on through for whatever we could mean by that -- and our pic of this week's surprise appearance by The Observer! Read More... Posted Oct 15 2008, 03:34 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: The X-Files, Fringe, Joshua Jackson, Alias, Anna Torv, REO Speedwagon, Harrison Ford

• "Fringe": Behold A Strange Canister From The Earth. Also, Our Anna Torv Crush.

  Lots to talk about from last night's episode of Fringe -- wetware, possible aliens, root beer -- but first things first: anyone else struck by how foxy Anna Torv was last night? Read More... Posted Oct 01 2008, 12:33 PM by Bryan Christian with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Fringe, Anna Torv, Michael Cerveris, Michael Kelly

• "Fringe": New "X-Files", New Clooney? Yeah, Maybe So.

  OK, so, despite the fact that an airline pilot's face dissolves to the point that his inferior maxillary bone drops right off his face, we can't quite call Fringe's pilot "jawdropping." It's excellent, intriguing, absorbing... but it didn't blow us away. Which is fine by us. Because that means we're not dealing with a Lost-type situation here. The first 45 frenzied minutes of that show's pilot were so strange and affecting that we sometimes think we're still under their sway, particularly when we find ourselves trying to reconcile all the magnetism, ghosts, and clockwork monsters made of smoke on that damned island. But Fringe is content to work with milieus and characters that we've seen before: the mad scientist, the broken family, the federal agent searching for the truth in a vast single-wing conspiracy. Does it sound like we're disappointed?  We're not. Fringe may do what it can to color in the lines, but man, what vibrant colors it chooses to color with. Read More... Posted Sep 10 2008, 09:31 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: Lost, Fox, Fringe, Joshua Jackson, JJ Abrams, Anna Torv, John Noble