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The last half-hour of the pilot is by far the best part of Fringe; it’s full of twists, turns, action and suspense. And the first 20 minutes or so, in which a team of federal agents investigate a mysterious occurrence on a commercial airliner, is brisk and efficient, if (like much of Fringe) a little bombastic and overdirected. Aside from a cinematic dream sequence, the middle hour of Fringe is much more problematic.
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Nothing here really pops, even with Torv holding her own as the tough femme protagonist, the welcome presence of "The Wire's" Lance Reddick as her hostile boss and Noble exhibiting alternating strains of brilliance and psychosis.
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Fringe is just good enough to watch with or without the ads. But with Abrams, you expect more than "just good enough."
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I just knew that there seemed to be a Duchovny-shaped hole in the universe "Lost" co-creator J.J. Abrams had designed for his new sci-fi show....Fortunately, things pick up considerably in the second half of tonight's two-hour premiere.
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Abrams, the quintessential American dreamer and overindulger, the ultimate boyish idiot-savant imaginator, just can't control himself. He can't exercise a little self-restraint.
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After the electrifying start, Fringe unfolds as an uneven, unwieldy piece of work that provides very few chills and thrills.
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Fringe has the feel of a chemistry-lab concoction, the forced amalgam of preexisting elements. It may not be hydrogen sulfide, which gives rotten eggs their smell, but it's mediocre science.
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Fringe is a smorgasbord of a show, but one a little too synthetically engineered to allow you the chance to discover what it is
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In the end, it turns out that Homeland Security so desperately needs Olivia on their side of the freak wars that they show her their top-secret Mulder-Scully-esque X-files and recruit both Bishops as her own mercenary team of pattern pods. And I am the queen of the Nile.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 460 out of 531
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Mixed: 38 out of 531
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Negative: 33 out of 531
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caladoniakFeb 13, 2009Starts out a little weak, but the later episodes are incredible.
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JDSep 1, 2009
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DanielS.Oct 16, 2009