TV REVIEW: "FRINGE" (2008-2013)
- Aug 18, 2014
- 2 min read
Starring Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, and John Noble. Fringe centers around a special investigative team inside Homeland Security and the FBI that is investigating a series of events known simply as the pattern. With each character unknowingly intertwined with one another's fate, their small division deals with a host of strange cases that ammount to epic proportions.
Another show from J.J. Abrams, Fringe ran for a whole five seasons, each of them getting more interesting. Ina mix between The X-Files and Bones, Fringe brought an element of horror and sci-fi missing in primetime TV for years. Anna Torv plays Olivia Dunham, an FBI agent who's own investigations stumble her into working with Homeland Security. Her new investigation leaves everything she cares about on the line. Her determination to succeed has her chasing the case to no end, which brings her to Joshua Jackson's character Peter Bishop, lone guardian of his insane father Walter Bishop, played by John Noble. Noble's character, Dr. Walter Bishop, has a dark and mysterious past. During the 70's Dr. Bishop ran government tests on subjects that ranged from theorizing about pyrokinesis to teleportation and parallel universes.
The storyline of this show is great. Absolutely amazing overall. But the one thing that really makes this show pop is the casting. Something you will see me say a lot is that my number one critique on a lot of these new TV shows is casting. People won't relate to the characters if they are all fake. No one cares to see a show where the whole cast is a bunch of perfect, spornosexual, supermodels.
Let's start with John Noble (Lord of the Rings, Running Scared), whom is a top notch classically trained actor. His capapbilities leave me speechless, especially as Walter Bishop in Fringe. Another example is Joshua Jackson (The Mighty Ducks, Dawson's Creek), he is handsome, but not unbelievably so, and the character he plays, plays to his strengths. And Lance Reddick, who plays Colonel Broyles, also aged, not a Morris Chestnut.
I'm afraid to say a whole lot more because I don't like spoilers and I want you to feel everything I felt while I watched the show. But I'll have to give this TV Show a 9.5/10.
It misses that half point to get the perfect 10 due to some concept issues they struggled with in the last season, as well as the storyline. And part of the last point not being there is just because it's J.J. Abrams too. But I've watched through this show probably five times, definitely worth the watch.
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