It’s no big secret that the Fox sci-fi show Fringe was in dangerous waters after being moved to Friday nights at 9pm — the “death slot” as it’s been named by almost all TV watchers. Lay your worries to rest because Fox Television has announced that Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and [...]
A number of people have expressed frustration and disappointment with the decision to “string out” the mystery of what happened in the meeting between Olivia Dunham and William Bell. The fear, that the answers would never come, seemed to be built around frustrations with other shows of similar pedigree (“X-Files”, “Lost”). I’ve found the balance [...]
This season of “Fringe” continues to swing from mythology-heavy episodes to more self-contained installments, and this is one of the latter. There are some elements that speak to the larger questions, but overall, this seems to be a case that only serves to explore character thematically. The case itself had some interesting aspects, particularly in [...]
The idea of alien creatures in “Fringe”, even if just as a riff on the ongoing exploration of the meaning of consciousness, leaves me a bit uncertain. I would have been a little happier if the “infection” of the cosmonaut had been revealed as a catalyst for the fragmentation of the cosmonaut’s own consciousness, or [...]
“Fringe” has been delivering an interesting second season. While the show has definitely evolved since its stumbling start, I’m not sure that the best lessons of the first season have been learned. The second half of the first season was remarkable for its deft treatment of both episodic and serialized story elements. This season, on [...]
It’s no secret that we here at PopCultureShock love the ladies, even if they may not love us back. And as the year draws to a close, we feel it’s only right that we honor some of our favorites, whether they be on TV, in movies, on the Billboard charts, etc. So here are the [...]
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