Fringe

Olivia Dunham, Walter Bishop, and his son, Peter, explore two universes of strange mysteries in this sci-fi series.

Fridays, 9 PM ET, FOX

Current Season: 5 - Total Episodes: 99
Highest Rated: Ep 11, Season 1

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“Liberty”/“An Enemy Of Fate”

by Noel Murray January 18, 2013 -

Fringe finishes its five-year run with an emotional two-parter.

“The Boy Must Live”

by Noel Murray January 11, 2013 -

Fringe sets up next week's series finale with a trip to the future and a reveal of The Plan.

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“Anomaly XB-6783746”

by Noel Murray December 21, 2012 -

Questions get answered and people get hurt as Fringe approaches its endgame.

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“Black Blotter”

by Noel Murray December 14, 2012 -

And now for something (not quite) completely different, on a trippy Fringe.

Ep. 12-13, Season 5
“Liberty”/“An Enemy Of Fate”
Ep. 11, Season 5
“The Boy Must Live”
Ep. 10, Season 5
“Anomaly XB-6783746”
Ep. 9, Season 5
“Black Blotter”

Features Reviews

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"There's More Than One Of Everything"
Episode 20

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“The Road Not Taken”
Episode 19

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“Midnight”
Episode 18

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“Bad Dreams”
Episode 17

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“Unleashed”
Episode 16

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“Inner Child”
Episode 15

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“Ability”
Episode 14

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“The Transformation”
Episode 13

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“The No-Brainer”
Episode 12

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"Bound"
Episode 11

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"Safe"
Episode 10

Hey, gangNoel is out being a movie critic somewhere (thinks he's all special with his screenings and his Best of lists and...
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"The Dreamscape"
Episode 9

Butterfly attack!!!! AAAAAAAAAH! This week's Freak-Meet wasn't about getting to know a...
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B+
"The Equation"
Episode 8

Big night for the Bishops on Fringe, as Peter gets to put his mathematical skills and his criminal skills to...
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B+
"In Which We Meet Mr. Jones"
Episode 7

Welcome back, Fringe-ophiles! Maybe it's because the two-week absence made my heart grow fonder, but I enjoyed this...
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B+
"The Cure"
Episode 6

There's nothing like canceror any disease, reallyto remind us that no matter how much we romanticize our consciousness...
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B
"Power Hungry"
Episode 5

Judging by the comments on Fringe's previous episodetwo long weeks agoa lot of you felt like the show was...
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"The Arrival"
Episode 4

"The Arrival" was the weirdest episode of Fringe yeta deep-down sci-fi spookfest that minimized the show's...
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C+
"The Ghost Network"
Episode 3

Watching Fringe immediately after watching House really drives home the procedural structure that...
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B
"The Same Old Story"
Episode 2

Now that we've gotten the "Man, that sucked!"/"Aw c'mon, it's not so bad!" stuff out of the way, it's time...
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"Pilot"
Episode 1

Premieres tonight on Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET Note: This review reveals minor details about the plot of tonight's...
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“Over There, Part 2”
Episode 23

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“Over There, Part 1”
Episode 22

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“Northwest Passage”
Episode 21

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“Brown Betty”
Episode 20

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“The Man From The Other Side”
Episode 19

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"White Tulip"
Episode 18

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“Olivia. In The Lab. With The Revolver.”
Episode 17

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B+
“Peter”
Episode 16

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“Jacksonville”
Episode 15

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“The Bishop Revival”
Episode 14

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B
"What Lies Below"
Episode 13

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“Johari Window”
Episode 12

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“Unearthed”
Episode 11

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"Grey Matters"
Episode 10

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“Snakehead”
Episode 9

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“August”
Episode 8

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“Of Human Action”
Episode 7

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C+
“Earthling”
Episode 6

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B
"Dream Logic"
Episode 5

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“Momentum Deferred”
Episode 4

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“Fracture”
Episode 3

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“Night Of Desirable Objects”
Episode 2

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“A New Day In The Old Town”
Episode 1

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"The Day We Died"
Episode 22

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B+
"The Last Sam Weiss"
Episode 21

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"6:02 AM EST"
Episode 20

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"Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"
Episode 19

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"Bloodline"
Episode 18

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B+
"Stowaway"
Episode 17

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B+
"Os"
Episode 16

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"Subject 13"
Episode 15

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"6B"
Episode 14

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"Immortality"
Episode 13

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"Concentrate And Ask Again"
Episode 12

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"Reciprocity"
Episode 11

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B
"The Firefly"
Episode 10

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"Marionette"
Episode 9

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"Entrada"
Episode 8

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"The Abducted"
Episode 7

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"6995 kHz"
Episode 6

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"Amber 31422"
Episode 5

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“Do Shapeshifters Dream Of Electric Sheep?”
Episode 4

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“The Plateau”
Episode 3

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“The Box”
Episode 2

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“Olivia”
Episode 1

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“Brave New World (Part 2)”
Episode 22

The Fringe season ends with some heart-stopping moments (and a few too many awkward ones).
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B
“Brave New World”
Episode 21

The first part of the two-hour Fringe season finale is more set-up than payoff.
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B
“Worlds Apart”
Episode 20

Two Fringe teams race to prevent the destruction of both their worlds in an exciting, emotional episode.
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“Letters Of Transit”
Episode 19

Fringe leaps into the future for a fascinating (if potentially frustrating) episode.
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“The Consultant”
Episode 18

What motivates Evil Broyles? Tonight's fine Fringe knows.
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“Everything In Its Right Place”
Episode 17

Agent Lee kicks ass and contemplates identity on a tense, thought-provoking Fringe.
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“Nothing As It Seems”
Episode 16

The Porcupine Man returns on an especially exciting (and pointed) Fringe.
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“A Short Story About Love”
Episode 15

The power of love bends reality on a corny (but poignant) Fringe.
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“The End Of All Things”
Episode 14

An exciting, emotional, information-filled Fringe takes us into the March hiatus.
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“A Better Human Being”
Episode 13

A tense Fringe proves to be all about broken connections.
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“Welcome To Westfield”
Episode 12

The Fringe gang checks out a small town, which they can never leave.
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“Making Angels”
Episode 11

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“Forced Perspective”
Episode 10

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“Enemy Of My Enemy”
Episode 9

A familiar mad man returns, and no one seems too happy to see him.
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“Back To Where You’ve Never Been”
Episode 8

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“Wallflower”
Episode 7

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B
“And Those We’ve Left Behind”
Episode 6

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“Novation”
Episode 5

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“Subject 9”
Episode 4

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B
“Alone In The World”
Episode 3

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“One Night In October”
Episode 2

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“Neither Here Nor There”
Episode 1

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“Liberty”/“An Enemy Of Fate”
Episode 12-13

Fringe finishes its five-year run with an emotional two-parter.
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“The Boy Must Live”
Episode 11

Fringe sets up next week's series finale with a trip to the future and a reveal of The Plan.
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B
“Anomaly XB-6783746”
Episode 10

Questions get answered and people get hurt as Fringe approaches its endgame.
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B+
“Black Blotter”
Episode 9

And now for something (not quite) completely different, on a trippy Fringe.
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“The Human Kind”
Episode 8

There are different kinds of soothsaying (and a fair amount of ass-kicking) in this week's emotional Fringe.
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“Five-Twenty-Ten”
Episode 7

This week's Fringe covers too much familiar ground, but arrives at a chilling end.
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“Through The Looking Glass And What Walter Found There”
Episode 6

Walter searches a pocket universe for an old acquaintance in a slight but enjoyable surreal Fringe.
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“An Origin Story”
Episode 5

Peter's making bad choices on a stand-out episode of Fringe.
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A
“The Bullet That Saved The World”
Episode 4

It’s a time for reunion and sacrifice on a thrilling, moving Fringe.
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“The Recordist”
Episode 3

The Fringe team encounters a community of humans fighting to preserve history, but not themselves.
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B
“In Absentia”
Episode 2

This week's muted-but-strong Fringe gives hints to what this final season will be.
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“Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11”
Episode 1

Fringe returns! (And leaps right ahead to its darkest timeline.)
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Upfronts update: Fox picks up nine new shows, most about cops
With network upfronts just next week, this would normally be the time when said networks started picking up new shows and canceling old ones willy-nilly.
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A must-follow absurd Twitter account, a pair of classic TV shows, and some music worth hearing
Some entertainment is optional. These aren’t.
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Pop culture too extensive to start
This week, the staff and readers discuss which pop-culture series or genres have built up what seems like an impenetrable backlog.
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Begin again: 27 opening-credits sequences that evolved with their series
Another list from The A.V. Club.
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Fringe ends, and just under three million voices cry out in anguish
The end of Fringe is here, and we're betting you're surprised it got this far. Also: Karl Pilkington is back, another podcast becomes a TV show, and Best Week Ever returns.
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Fringe
Cortexiphan and tears.
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Looking for another animated comedy? You'll find one somewhere Out There
If you've been looking for a new animated comedy, we think you'll find one somewhere Out There. Also: The Packers play the 49ers, and Fringe returns for the next-to-last time.
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Fox at the TCA winter press tour: Kevin Reilly and the case of the cable conundrum
At last summer’s Television Critics Association press tour, Fox president Kevin Reilly was casually confident about his network winning yet another ratings crown for yet another season.
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You’ve got to go on waiting for the miracle to come: 63 of our most anticipated entertainments of 2013
The A.V. Club’s weekly list.
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Beyond the top 30: Our favorite episodes of shows that didn’t make the cut, part one
Everything from series finales of long-running cult hits to aging sitcoms to news coverage makes our supplemental list.
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The best TV series of 2012: The ballots
Find out what series almost made the list—and which writers need to be bugged about not watching Game Of Thrones.
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You didn’t have anything going on tonight, right? Good, ’cuz Fox has new Family Guy and American Dad episodes
You didn’t have anything going on tonight, right? Good, ’cuz Fox has new Family Guy and American Dad. Also: The MacFarlane shows are about it—it’s the day before Christmas Eve, for crying out loud!
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No longer terrified of family togetherness, Fox tosses Fringe to the pre-holiday wolves
Fox doesn't care if you're hanging out with your family or whatever. It has a new Fringe to air! Also: Lots and lots of Christmas-themed things. And puppies!
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Celebrate Christm... er... the holid... er... winter with Portlandia
Celebrate the solstice by taking a trip to Portlandia. Also: A variety of classic Christmas movies air, Fringe heads into the woods, and Saturday Night Live turns to the classics.
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30 For 30 aims to crack the eternal mystery of what, exactly, Bo Jackson knows
30 For 30 tackles that eternal mystery: Just what does Bo Jackson know? Also: Syfy brings you 12 disasters for Christmas, and Fringe is finally airing again.
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Meat(head) the parents on New Girl
Meat(head) the parents on New Girl. Also: Happy Endings serves up a flashback for Thanksgiving and Ed Helms heads back to The Mindy Project.
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We're finally finishing up our Millennium reviews, which we know you cared about so much
Our Millennium reviews come to an end this weekend. Not like you care or anything, but we thought you should know. Also: What the hell's a Hexenbiest?
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Fringe sends Walter Bishop through the looking glass, because the J.J. Abrams-verse needs more Lewis Carroll references
Fringe sends Walter through the looking glass, because it's not a part of the J.J. Abrams-verse if it doesn't have extraneous Lewis Carroll references. Also: Anne Hathaway!
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Recover from Hurricane Sandy with Louis C.K. and Saturday Night Live
Also: An NBA doubleheader, a Fringe origin story, and the greatest songs of the 1990s.
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Mockingbird Lane reaches out to you from beeeyooooond the graaaaave!
Mockingbird Lane reaches out to you from beeeyooooond the graaaaave! Also: It’s the weekend before Halloween, therefore everything is supernaturally themed.
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Strike Back ends its second season by blowing up everything in sight
Strike Back ends a second season that blew up even more shit than usual. Also: Baseball's division series come down to their final two games. And baby goats!
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Some guy hangs out with some other guy on tonight's thrilling Grimm
Grimm promises mystery and oddity and a mythology that we'd really like you to explain to us in comments. Also: Gravity Falls celebrates Halloween super early.
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Improbably, Fringe is back for one last season
It seems unlikely to us, too, but Fringe is back and heading into one last season. Also: Thank Grimm it's Friday! Or, rather, don't, because that's the worst marketing tagline ever.
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10 key (and mindbending) episodes of Fringe
A guide to the smartest science-fiction show (on Earth-1).
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Billy Burke on Revolution, 24, and the Twilight phenomenon
“I found out that during this whole run, [my character] was high on crystal meth. I had no idea!”
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