Fringe
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It's a sci-fi show that some have compared to The X-Files, which I never watched, so I don't know if the comparison is appropriate. It features special FBI agent Olivia Dunham investigating strange happenings that appear to be unexplainable by conventional science. Her team includes Walter and Peter Bishop, a brilliant but emotionally and socially disturbed scientist and his almost equally brilliant but somewhat rebellious son, who help her crack these cases using "fringe science". Pretty much each episode has a complete story arc with a beginning and a conclusion in which the "mystery" is solved, but the story fits into a larger arc in which bio-terrorism and government conspiracies and the like are explored, and these events fit into a pattern of strange occurrences that can be traced back many years.
The good thing about it is that it's not just one endless story (like Lost, Heroes, and others), but each episode can stand on its own merits. However, the overall story is going in a specific direction, and in order to put everything together, you need to know what has already happened, who certain characters are, etc.
The good thing about it is that it's not just one endless story (like Lost, Heroes, and others), but each episode can stand on its own merits. However, the overall story is going in a specific direction, and in order to put everything together, you need to know what has already happened, who certain characters are, etc.
I watched it without paying 100% attention last season and thought it was a cool enough show. Will watch again though my DVR is backed up quite a bit. I got to figure out how to get the HD copy of Urgh: A Music War off so I can exchange it for the new model we got in the bedroom that has 2-3x the storage space.
When the show started off it felt like an X-Files retread, or like an amalgam of elements I've seen in several other shows, but it had just enough style and wit (Walter's character) to keep me hanging in. As they developed The Pattern and what's behind it, it got a lot more interesting. Actually, this overarching mythology is more intriguing to me than the X-Files "alien agenda" ever was.
