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- FOX
- Sep 23, 2011
- FOX
- Sep 23, 2011
Summary FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and his estranged father Walter Bishop (John Noble) are entangled in J.J. Abrams' sci-fi drama about a conspiracy that begins with mysterious deaths on an airplane.
Created By: J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
- FOX
- Sep 23, 2011
- FOX
- Sep 23, 2011
Fringe
Season 4
5 Seasons
Season Premiere: Sep 23, 2011
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
8.2
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Summary FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) and his estranged father Walter Bishop (John Noble) are entangled in J.J. Abrams' sci-fi drama about a conspiracy that begins with mysterious deaths on an airplane.
Created By: J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
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If you think Fringe has forgotten anything in its history/mythology, you underestimate these wily master producers.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 197 User Ratings
8.2
86% Positive
170 Ratings
170 Ratings
6% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
8% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 197 User Ratings
8.2
86% Positive
170 Ratings
170 Ratings
6% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
8% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
One of the BEST works of J.J. Abrams, this show has a captivating story line that gets you **** in right from the start. The best thing about this series is that it keeps you guessing and when you think you know what's going to happen next, you're blown out of your mind...like "What Just Happened"?
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SEASON 4
Season 3 was disappointing with a lot of rather bland filler episodes and the story arc wasn't great either. Season 4 however is back on form and is as good (and addictive), if not better than the first 2 seasons. It starts a bit slow but once it gets going (When Peter gets back) the story episodes are great and even the MOTW filler episodes have gone back to being good again, many of them having a link to the story arc woven in as well. Lincoln Lee is now a permanent member of the main team and is a good addition, and the role of Walternates universe (the weaker side of season 3) has been cut down. Fox really were very nice to give Fringe a final season even though it was burning money for them.
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SEASON 4
Fringe: Season 4 for me is overall a large disappointment, because of one simple reason- I didn't like the story. The story frustrated me personally as I'd become so invested in the earlier seasons that this sudden change of story wasn't a welcome one for me. The writers are the ones who absolutely let down this season, which is surprising because the dialogue is still excellent, but I disliked the direction they went. The actors put in brilliant performances, but their characters felt like completely different people to me, it's as if they scrapped the whole storylines of certain characters and restarted them again, making them feel like new characters to me. There is actually an attempt to resolve this but it feels extremely forced to me and made me dislike this season even more. Of course there are a couple of hidden gems in this season, including "Worlds Apart" and "Letters of Transit", however neither of these are anywhere near the best episodes. Also, two of the shows best two characters make returns, and while both of them are excellent, they can't carry the show.
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SEASON 4
Funny how the worse the show gets, the more rabid the last of its fanbase becomes. Fringe peaked early in season three but the writers soon forgot what the main draw of their show was. Bell's warning of the "last great storm" and Olivia having to grow into her destiny as the "guardian" have been all but forgotten. Season four is a clusterf*ck of uncompelling "will-they-wont-they" drama mixed with terribly lazy plot devices and forced character derailment all in the name of forcing a completely juvenile "power of love" theme down the audience's throat as if the show was a freaking Nick Jr. program. Furthermore, some of the most compelling mysteries of the series are either dropped completely or answered with pathetic handwaves so that the showrunners can set up season five's generic-dystopian-fascist-state plot (which came right the hell out of nowhere with no development or buildup). You know you have a serious writing problem when the presence of the brilliant Leonard Nimoy actually makes your story worse. The alternate timeline was ultimately a baffling and pointless addition to the show. Fringe has transformed from smart compelling sci-fi series, with respect for its audience, into a petty ham-fisted joke, worthy only of the few codependent shippers who still defend it.
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SEASON 4
Season 4 and the series has now become painful to watch. The plot has got sidelined and is spiking all over the place with no real cohesion. I presume the writers have been asked to keep writing until the end of days, so they are forced to fill in with episodes of irrelevance. Some of the main ideas were very good but have got distorted and washed down as time goes on. Season 3 failed to provide definitive answers and closure. Season 4 starts without Peter and in some other Universe timeline I mean this can go on forever. Let's have Season 5 on the planet of the Observers maybe. Or when Peter was a child. Or in some other timeline where Peter is still dealing weapons and drugs in Iraq.
The good guys can be good, bad, indifferent, or not even present depending on which episode you watch. Are we on the real Universe? Or the parallel one? Are we on this timeline or in some other? Are we on Season 1 or Season 4? Put all those in the blender and pull out what the main characters will be like in this episode.
Many weak points with the plot. Are we trying to save the Universe today or just chase down some lunatic serial killer? Let's toss a coin. Noone seems to be overly worried even though black holes keep appearing all over the place the shops are still open and people still commute and go to work as usual. And depending on the episode the main characters will be busy closing down black holes or simply trying to catch some ingenious serial killer does not matter which.
Almost every single bad guy and bad situation has its roots on Walter and his experiments in the 70s. In almost every confrontation Olivia will be alone fighting the bad guy with bare fists, since he always tricks her and she drops her weapon. And the other dozens of agents simply sit and watch. In many episodes the main characters get attacked or abducted because they ignore all warnings and fail to take the most simple precautions.
And the most serious flaw even though Walter has described it a million times, he has even sketched it on the board: every single moment that passes generates an infinite number of parallel universes but we are stuck with two. Just two. And in Season 4 we have a third one.
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SEASON 4
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 4
