Fringe

By Graeme McMillan With no new episodes of Mythbusters, you might as well spend the day either (a) not watching television, or the much-more-likely (b) flipping between Syfy's The Twilight Zone marathon (8am through 3pm) and AMC's classic run of Young Frankenstein (1pm), Ghostbusters (3:30pm) and, um,...

By Graeme McMillan Yeah, okay, this is the one that - for some fans - may never happen. Fandom in all its forms knows how to hold grudges, and if Firefly has taught us anything, it's that fandom never forgets. Now that Fox has killed two Joss Whedon shows (and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, for that matt...

By Graeme McMillan 9pm brings the real reason to wrestle over the remote; Fringe on Fox gives Olivia, Broyles and Peter a new reason to be suspicious of Massive Dynamic when the impossibly shady corporation turn out to be involved in a kidnapping case, but Supernatural (The CW) looks much more fun than even W...

By Graeme McMillan Both Fringe and FlashForward are seeing ratings in a worrying freefall right now; Meredith has already reported that Fringe was being considered a show in "trouble," but that was before the audience dropped a worrying 23% for this Thursday's episode (In its defense, many people may hav...

By Annalee Newitz Richard Kelly, director of Donnie Darko, has manufactured another dream of paranoid moral confusion with his latest film The Box. An uneasy tale of alien technology and human greed, The Box is science fiction done the emo way. Spoilers ahead.

By Lauren Davis Walter Moment of the Week: Walter still got to be Walter despite the focus on Broyles. He maligned Russians, played with Tinker Toys, and shared yet another embarrassing memory from Peter's childhood (involving doodles of genitalia no less). But the most truly Walter moment was when we fu...

By Graeme McMillan The Fringe Division takes on a puzzling investigation where victims are inexplicably disintegrating into ash. The shadowy case casts light on Special Agent Phillip Broyles' past and leads the team to the possibility of foreign Fringe Science. Emotions run high as the alarming events st...

By Caitlin Petrakovitz Nathan Fillion is back in the world's tightest pants this week. Plus, Halloween brings a spate of classic horror movies. The original V is back! And there's new Heroes, Fringe, Supernatural, Smallville and more. Clips and minor spoilers below! Monday: Tuesday: Movies:

By Lauren Davis Promise Me, No Students: Can we just dump Agent Jessup and adopt Agent Kashner instead? It's nice to see someone enter the lab who isn't as stoic as Astrid or Olivia (I mean, eventually someone had to vomit at the autopsy table). And he's so utterly unprepared for Walter that it's kind of ador...

By Caitlin Petrakovitz Joshua Jackson is a photographer who's haunted by mysterious images of a woman who supposedly died in a car crash in Tokyo, in Shutter, on HBO at 5:30 PM. Fringe - On FOX at 9 PM the team started decoding dreams when people are being turned into monsters via what sounds like a backdoor in their b...

By Lauren Davis Farewell, Fake Charlie: But soon reason (or more accurately technology) prevails and Fake Charlie is outed as the shapeshifter. After a battle of the supersoldiers, Olivia wins out and shoots Fake Charlie dead. Poor Kirk Acevedo. You will be missed.

By Lauren Davis Leave it to Walter to bring in some visually weird science, replicating Olivia's car accident in an attempt to fling a frog into the alternate dimension. The frog doesn't have any close encounters with William Bell, but it looks pretty cool as it flies through the air.

By Lauren Davis Gene the cow put on her best party hat for last night's Fringe season premiere, an episode that brought us shapeshifters, transdimensional typewriters, a new team member, custard, and a kiss that revealed an unexpected alliance. Spoilers below...

By Lauren Davis Fringe follows the FBI's Fringe Science Division — FBI Agent Olivia Dunham, fringe scientist Walter Bishop, Walter's son Peter Bishop, and lab assistant Astrid — as they investigate bizarre occurrences related to the fringes of current scientific knowledge. Last season left us with a...

By Annalee Newitz And Peter helps out by looking rakish and telling Walter a story about how he used to make pancakes when Peter was a kid. That reminds Walter of how he lost "something precious" when Peter was young and sick (though interestingly Peter doesn't remember being sick). And how he thought he could...

By Meredith Woerner Fringe - After the mean way Oliva brought our beloved Walter to tears in last weeks episode, I'm not surprised he took off with the Observer. Okay, maybe he deserved it a tiny bit, but Olivia you are a wicked, wicked lady in a sharp business suit. This is is the big season finale for Fringe — and yo...

By Annalee Newitz Fringe is scoring well on the tightly-plotted-o-meter - last week's episode, authored by Akiva "I, Robot" Goldsman, was scary and awesome. And this week's episode, "Midnight," kept bringing on the biological horror with a vampiric creature whose lust for spinal fluid took us one step c...

By Annalee Newitz After a lot of bizarre crosstalk between Peter, Walter, and Olivia, plus a lot of surveillance tape footage from the scenes of the crimes, the Scoobies discover a common thread. A guy with blond hair and a scar named Nick seems to be at all the scenes. Is Olivia in Nick's head? How could this be?

By Meredith Woerner Hooray, Fringe is back on Fox at 9 PM. This week, a parasite is taking over the bodies of FBI agents, Olivia has to go to Germany (hopefully she'll pick up a little personality while overseas) and Walter Bishop and his boy Peter try to jump start a dead guy's brain. Fringe Promo: Movies:

By Charlie Jane Anders Sadly, Fringe had the weakest debut of any Abrams show since Felicity. The second episode did better thanks to the House premiere, and then the third episode dropped again. But the third episode scored better than the first, and as long as House remains reasonably popular, Fringe may be abl...

By Meredith Woerner What do you think about Walter? He's slowly becoming a fan favorite out of the Fringe series. So are you saying that Science is the bad guy in Fringe? How are you going to top the "I just pissed myself" line? That was my favorite part of the pilot for Fringe.

 CA - Aug 26, 2008 But others disagree: [F]or Fringe, Abrams shot a two-hour action show that opens with a flesh-eating virus set loose on an airplane. ...

By Annalee Newitz In the pilot episode of Fringe, I can guarantee that you will get to see no fewer than three charmingly improbable pieces of "fringe science," one of which involves somebody taking a giant dose of Ketamine mixed with LSD and lying in a sensory deprivation tank. (Hello, Altered States?)