Spoilers ahead for the Fringe season finale: Fringe committed more than ever to hardcore sci-fi, if that were possible, in its multipart finale, with mixed results. I thought the last installment, “The Day We Died,” was not Fringe’s finest moment as an individual finale. But it left me reasonably hopeful for the overarching storyline as [...]

Spoilers for Friday’s Fringe follow: When Fringe debuted, there was the by-now-usual speculation as to whether it might become (whatever this means) the next Lost. (This is the typical rite of passage now for any network sci-fi-inflected drama, but especially one that comes from J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot.) At first it wasn’t and that [...]

Spoilers for Fringe’s first Friday night episode, “The Firefly,” coming up: As Fringe grew stronger and more confident through 2010 and increasingly began to draw in the details of the alternate universe, one issue would occasionally dig at me: just where does The Observer—or rather The Observers—fit into all of this? The bald-headed Zelig from [...]

Fringe is not going gentle into that good Friday night. As this promo clip indicates, the show’s January move to Friday is often considered a mark of doom for a series. But the show is looking to make the best of the situation, and—like any good mad-scientist drama—trying to conquer death. The funny thing is [...]

Spoilers for last night’s episode of Fringe coming up:* While it may not have been the high point that the emotional “Peter” from earlier this year was, “Entrada” was a pretty excellent action-focused episode, in which the dimensional swap between Fauxlivia and Realivia came to a head. In the process, it demonstrated that Fringe‘s writers [...]

Time’s tight, so I’m going to throw out some spoilery thoughts on the universe-straddling season finale of Fringe, entirely in hail-of-bullets form. Stand back; I’m using the 77 model. * A random thought first: I can’t help but think that, however the parallel-worlds storyline of Lost is resolved in its finale, it will eventually beg [...]

There was plenty of TV last week that I’m not going to get around to catching up on, but the midseason return of Fringe, “Peter,” was probably my favorite episode since “There’s More Than One of Everything,” and it deserves at least a quick notice. (Spoilers ahead.)

Spoilers for last night’s “winter finale” of Fringe after the jump: