The sci-fi mystery series follows
FBI agent Olivia Dunham as she is brought into the Fringe unit to investigate
strange and classified cases. To help her, she recruits a brilliant but mad
scientist Walter Bishop and his estranged son Peter.
The series is created by J.J. Abrams (his best show to date), Roberto Orci,
and Alex
Kurtzman, but J.H.
Wyman, Jeff
Pinkner, and Akiva
Goldsman are also very influential in the show’s creative development. This
group of writers is responsible for many of the biggest recent Hollywood films
(like A
Beautiful Mind, Star
Trek, Super
8, and the upcoming The Amazing
Spider-Man 2 and 3).
Abrams is known for ability to
find great female leads, and with Fringe he found maybe his best in Anna Torv.
She stars with Joshua
Jackson and John
Noble. Jasika
Nicole, Lance
Reddick, Blair
Brown, Michael
Cerveris, Kirk
Acevedo, Seth
Gabel, Mark
Valley, Leonard
Nimoy, Jared
Harris, and Georgina Haig
feature in support. The cast is fantastic overall.
Fringe follows in the steps of The X-Files,
feeling very much as a modern update of that series. In today’s overly generic
and commercial network TV landscape (basically, the networks know they have
already lost and are just counting the days to extinction, so they are trying
to make the most of it money wise and not it terms of making what is even close
to quality television) it is shocking that a show like Fringe, especially with
its production values, lasted as long as it did, and was able to remain as
weird and great as it does. Network TV needs good sci-fi, but sadly Fringe might
be its last best effort. It is a must-see for fans of the genre.
Trailer: Here
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