Fringe Returns Tonight!

From TVGuide:

Nobody said loving a show this candid about its Fringe status would be easy. And Fox, probably to its credit, didn't give fans false hope when projecting about the show's shaky future during last weekend's TCA executive session. My advice: Enjoy it while it lasts, hang on for the ride, and hope for the future.

Fringe returns from hiatus with a strong and, as usual, emotionally charged episode (Friday, 9/8c) that was originally intended to be the midseason finale back in November — until World Series rescheduling messed up those plans. The upside is that we won't have quite so long a wait to digest the repercussions of the final scene, which involves another portentous pronouncement from one of those melancholy omniscient Observers. There's also some nifty cliffhanger action regarding Peter's trip to the Alt-World, where it's hardly a surprise when someone announces, "Not everything is as it seems,"  suggesting that the mysteries of the heart and soul are just as difficult to explain and reconcile.

There's a tangible Wizard of Oz element to the desperate quest of Peter (Joshua Jackson at his most compelling) to get back home, his Kansas...
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. If Fringe is about anything, it's difficult decisions — the consequences of which could affect the fate of at least two worlds. The decisions yet to made about the fate of Fringe aren't likely to be any easier, but who'd have thought we'd get four seasons of gripping entertainment out of this mind-teasing masterpiece of fantasy?

Fringe Returns Tonight!

From TVGuide:

Nobody said loving a show this candid about its Fringe status would be easy. And Fox, probably to its credit, didn't give fans false hope when projecting about the show's shaky future during last weekend's TCA executive session. My advice: Enjoy it while it lasts, hang on for the ride, and hope for the future.

Fringe returns from hiatus with a strong and, as usual, emotionally charged episode (Friday, 9/8c) that was originally intended to be the midseason finale back in November — until World Series rescheduling messed up those plans. The upside is that we won't have quite so long a wait to digest the repercussions of the final scene, which involves another portentous pronouncement from one of those melancholy omniscient Observers. There's also some nifty cliffhanger action regarding Peter's trip to the Alt-World, where it's hardly a surprise when someone announces, "Not everything is as it seems,"  suggesting that the mysteries of the heart and soul are just as difficult to explain and reconcile.

There's a tangible Wizard of Oz element to the desperate quest of Peter (Joshua Jackson at his most compelling) to get back home, his Kansas...
( Read more... )

. If Fringe is about anything, it's difficult decisions — the consequences of which could affect the fate of at least two worlds. The decisions yet to made about the fate of Fringe aren't likely to be any easier, but who'd have thought we'd get four seasons of gripping entertainment out of this mind-teasing masterpiece of fantasy?

Fringe Returns Tonight!

From TVGuide:

Nobody said loving a show this candid about its Fringe status would be easy. And Fox, probably to its credit, didn't give fans false hope when projecting about the show's shaky future during last weekend's TCA executive session. My advice: Enjoy it while it lasts, hang on for the ride, and hope for the future.

Fringe returns from hiatus with a strong and, as usual, emotionally charged episode (Friday, 9/8c) that was originally intended to be the midseason finale back in November — until World Series rescheduling messed up those plans. The upside is that we won't have quite so long a wait to digest the repercussions of the final scene, which involves another portentous pronouncement from one of those melancholy omniscient Observers. There's also some nifty cliffhanger action regarding Peter's trip to the Alt-World, where it's hardly a surprise when someone announces, "Not everything is as it seems,"  suggesting that the mysteries of the heart and soul are just as difficult to explain and reconcile.

There's a tangible Wizard of Oz element to the desperate quest of Peter (Joshua Jackson at his most compelling) to get back home, his Kansas...
( Read more... )

. If Fringe is about anything, it's difficult decisions — the consequences of which could affect the fate of at least two worlds. The decisions yet to made about the fate of Fringe aren't likely to be any easier, but who'd have thought we'd get four seasons of gripping entertainment out of this mind-teasing masterpiece of fantasy?