Network: FOX
Episodes: 100 (hour)
Seasons: Five
TV show dates: September 9, 2008 — January 18, 2013
Series status: Ended
Performers include: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Kirk Acevedo, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole, Mark Valley, John Noble, and Michael Cerveris.
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TV show description:
This sci-fi drama, created by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias, Felicity), begins at Logan Airport in Boston. Flight 627 from Hamburg, Germany, has just arrived after having flown through an electrical storm. When FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) and her partner John Smith (Mark Valley) are summoned to the airport, co-worker Charlie Francis (Kirk Acevedo) informs them that the flight has landed via autopilot. Everyone onboard is dead and their organs seem to have melted.
Homeland Security Chief Phillip Broyles (Lance Reddick) immediately suspects terrorism and wants Olivia and John to investigate two Middleastern men who’d been seen at the airport handing a Caucasian man a suitcase. While investigating a storage facility, an explosion occurs, sending John to the hospital with symptoms similar to those from flight 627. Olivia researches John’s condition in order save him and recovers the name of a former government researcher of fringe science, Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble).
Dr. Bishop’s been institutionalized for the past 17 years after an experiment in his lab caused a lab assistant’s death. With the help of his estranged son, Peter (Joshua Jackson), she recruits Dr. Bishop to help her solve the current flesh eating phenomenon. Their examination into the epidemic leads them to Massive Dynamic, a multi-billion dollar corporation. The mysterious Nina Sharp (Blair Brown) is the executive director of the company’s fringe division and stonewalls outside inquiries.
Under the auspices of Broyles, Olivia, Dr. Bishop, Peter, and lab assistant Astrid Farnsworth (Jasika Nicole) soon discover that what happened on a runway at Logan Airport is part of a much bigger mystery. While trying to piece together what is going on, the team encounters additional strange occurrences like genetic mutations, rapid aging, levitation, reanimation, and telepathy.
Episode #100 — “An Enemy of Fate”
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First aired: January 18, 2013
What do you think? Do you like the Fringe TV series? Did you like the last episode? Do you think it should have lasted more than five seasons?
When I first saw Fringe I was very excited about the pace of the show. I thought, they have a chance to do the x-files right. The x-files captivated people with a very intriguing sci-fi conspiracy, but then spent most of its time filling it with unrelated side stories. Dragging out they delivery of what we were interested in knowing. They hooked me with this interesting plot, but by time they delivered on explaining the conspiracy I had already lost interest. I really thought fringe was going to avoid this but they ended up going down the same road and… Read more »
Awesome shoe.will be missed but ending could have been better by showing the older daughter instead.
I agree with Roby and others who liked it. Great series. I’ll really miss it. I would also sign a petition to continue it. Or pay a subscription fee for it to continue.
Enjoyed the whole series and wasn’t disappointed with the finale. It is so much better when they know a series is going to finish and they can give it a proper ending. I hate it when we, the viewers, are left hanging.
I loved the series, but I need a little help with the last scene from the last episode. Can someone please tell me what or if there is a significance to the handwritten tulip that Walter mailed to Peter in 2015? Goodbye Fringe! Friday night will never be the same.
It was a 2nd Season episode called White Tulip. Walter had long ago asked God for a specific sign of forgiveness: a white tulip. It that episode, he tell this to a man (Peter Weller) who can jump into the past and change the present. Which is what happens, the man basically erases the circumstances where he and Walter met. But before he jumped back, he put the white tulip in the envelope and had it on his person with a note to deliver it to Walter at a certain date- the man then jumps back almost one year and… Read more »
As my friend Kari, a fellow scientist, used to say: “This is the most ridiculous unscientific show I’ve ever seen. And I’m totally addicted.” It will be missed. I think casting Anna Torv as Olivia was a stroke of genius – she’s pretty, vulnerable, but tough – so many heroines I’ve watched are simply too beautiful for the role, to weak looking, or too stupid. She’s fantastic.
Agreed- she is everywoman- she could be anyone. This show has developed her into a great actress- ill be looking for her in the future.
She’s not gorgeous, she’s not ugly. She’s simply normal. Which is why I have always believed her character, even in the first season where she would lapse into her Aussie accent on occasion. I love her voice regardless of which dialect she uses.
I’m right there with roby. The networks do not realize what they have until it’s over. There are several very good shows that are either cancelled or in the process of that I look forward to and watch with great anticipation. How can the networks produce some of the garbage they produce and encourage viewers to view them by over marketing? How can they produce wonderful, intellectual shows then FAIL to market them to increase the so called “ratings”? Makes no sense to me unless they (the networks) just assume that everyone is as stupid as those garbage shows. I… Read more »
It is the proliferation of “reality shows” that have no basis in reality that speeds this dumbing-down process to breakneck speeds. As a very long time TV show fan and critic, FRINGE is up there with St Elsewhere in greatness. That was another show that had a good run and was ended appropriately. It’s not the individual episodes of Fringe that are great- its the whole story, and the believable humanity of the characters. There has not been this quality of show for a long time, and none of the non reality shows on today have anything close to the… Read more »
Fringe is the only show on tv I look forward to watch on a weekly basis for the past 2 years, I’ll miss the show immensly..I hate it when the network decides to cancel shows, because of ratings..I think they’re misled..big mistake…I don’t watch reruns..ea show was compelling, and the main characters are like family to me…well written episodes, well done writers!
Fringe is the show I look forward to watching, weekly, for the past 2 years..I’m attach to the characters, like family, and every episode is unique and compelling..I think the writers
who write the show are very talented, they make the show..so addicting…I really
hate to see Fringe cancelled, I miss it already, with heavy sad heart..
What a great show Fringe has been, I wish it was not the last season. I suppose after awhile they run out of stuff to write about. I’ll be looking forward to the last season. I missed most of the first season. Over the thanksgiving holiday I watched all of season two’s episodes. I really enjoyed the fringe binge. I will be looking forward to the last season, and sad to see it end.
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