Fringe: Season 5

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Season Details & Credits

FOX | Season Premiere Date: September 28, 2012

Starring: Joshua Jackson, Anna Torv, John Noble

Summary: On the final season of the sci-fi drama, the Fringe team tries to take back the planet from the Observers in the year 2036.

Creator: J.J. Abrams and Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Suspense, Science Fiction

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Season 5 Episodes

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S5:E13. An Enemy of Fate
Air Date: January 18, 2013
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S5:E12. Liberty
Air Date: January 18, 2013
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S5:E11. The Boy Must Live
Air Date: January 11, 2013

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Critic Reviews

Ken Tucker

Sep 28, 2012

Fringe seems to be going out as alt-world fantasy/sci-fi at its most tough-minded yet humanistic. [5 Oct 2012, p.73]

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Sep 28, 2012

For Fringe's small but loyal following, resistance is truly futile. We'll stick with this remarkable series to the end. Read full review

Michael Landweber

Sep 28, 2012

The season opener, "Transilience Thought Modifier Unit-11," is so incomprehensible that it suggests a no-compromise posture for the remaining episodes. Which is exactly what the loyal fans want and deserve. Read full review

Mike Hale

Sep 28, 2012

On the evidence of Friday's season opener, Fringe will continue to be the best show of its kind since "The X-Files" at the grace notes, intimate or humorous instances like Olivia's Crate & Barrel moment (which won't be further spoiled here). When you get the small things right, it's less crucial that your universes and time shifts exactly line up. Read full review

Chris Cabin

Sep 26, 2012

The cast is so uniformly excellent that one's seduced into following the narrative despite the show's rather glaring narrative flaws. Read full review

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alex95

Oct 1, 2012

A Show that has explored everything that has to be explored, Fringe continues to surprise me at the highest level continuing to be one of the best dramas on TV right now and one the sci-fi thrillers to be remembered for a long long time.

6 of 8 users found this helpful62

Mithrandir

Dec 25, 2012

This is one one of the best shows ever.Definitely recommended this to anyone.Season 5 may be a little disappointing but still good.Still the first season was the best

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

attackturnip

Sep 30, 2012

From what I can tell from the premiere, Season 5 of Fringe will be a nonstop action-packed adrenaline rush. With a shortened 13-episode order, the Fringe showrunners have promised this season will have no filler episodes, and I'm looking forward to what's to come.

2 of 2 users found this helpful20

TheApplegnome

Oct 8, 2014

This last season of Fringe truly is the best.

It might be a short season, but it's the best in the Fringe series. It totally is excellent in every way, and the series overall couldn't end in a better way. Fringe is a TV-show that just kept me interested and made me love it because all theThis last season of Fringe truly is the best.

It might be a short season, but it's the best in the Fringe series. It totally is excellent in every way, and the series overall couldn't end in a better way. Fringe is a TV-show that just kept me interested and made me love it because all the mysteries and questions it made me ask. This is one of my favorite sci-fi shows, and yes it might have some slower and less interesting episodes, but it's so awesome with all the unexpected questions and mysteries. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci did a hell of a job with Fringe, and I hope more Fringe-like TV-shows are coming in the future!

The final season of Fringe is awesome as it is spectacular.

The average score for each episode is: 8.06
Fringe: Season 5 get a 8/10… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

Stabs_with_Pudz

Jan 20, 2013

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Overrall its a pretty good season, a massive improvement from the disaster that was Season 4. It is action packed and full of adrenaline. It is also full of nostalgia for the Fringe fans who were there since the beginning.It turns out that Walter has kept a lot of the technology and chemicals from Fringe events that they have fought in the past, at first they used the skin growth toxin that was last seen in Season 1 then later Peter uses the chemical weapon used on Flight 627 but the Season Finale was when they pulled out the big guns: Skin Growth toxin from Season 1, Giant parasitic worms from Season 2, The mutated common cold from Season 1, the deadly razor blade butterflies hallucinations just about every Fringe case that they've done, I was hanging onto every moment during that scene, just wondering what fringe event they would use next. Another form of nostalgia for fans is when Walter is haunted by Doctor Warren - Walter's dead assistant and he reflects on how he travelled to the other universe to save Peter and what not, another event that is touched on is the White tulip Walter received from the Time traveller in Season 2 and the next and the most heart warming is during the Season Finale when Astrid finds Gene the Cow alive and well sealed inside amber and yet another MASSIVE piece of nostalgia is when we get to see the alternate universe once again and we get to see Lincoln and Alternate Olivia once again.
It may not be the best season but it touches and flashes back to the past a lot which can make any Fringe fan smile and jump with excitement.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

tantram

Dec 29, 2012

*sigh* why did they have to break a winning horse. What started as a strong modern rendition of the X-Files with some great characters has now become something completely different.

We suddenly find our beloved characters 20 years in the future fighting off an alien invasion... Mkay

3 of 5 users found this helpful32

Acriminal

Oct 13, 2012

This show has gotten SO bad. The writing is absurd. I'm forced to watch because I've followed it thus far and don't like to leave anything unfinished in a state of limbo. John Noble is this show's only redeeming quality. I can't wait until this last season is done.

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