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REVIEW FOR

FRINGE
Season One
Episode Six
“The Cure”
Written by Felicia D. Henderson and Brad Caleb Kane

Fringe is losing me.  I’m certainly not going to stop watching the show any time soon, but I’m definitely losing the initial feeling of interest I had for the show.  This episode, like the last one, and like every Fringe episode other than 1×04, was just okay.  There were some good things about it, and it seemed a lot more eventhan most of the episodes, but it never went to the next level for me.  The attempts at character driven subplots–the letter from Olivia’s dad, Peter’s ominous agreement with Nina Sharp–were interesting and helped save this episode from being a 3 or 4/10, but I can’t help but feel that this is CSI: Ten Years Into the Future.  The experiments they’re doing are, of course, fringescience (hence the title) but it seems as if they’re almost scared to go into the mythos the started developing in 1×04.  Maybe they want to save that for later in the series, or go the route of The X-Files and only make the “big” episodes centered around the real plot of the series.  Maybe they want to go the Lost way of things and give us answers a little bit at a time.  That totally works for Lost, because Lost is guaranteed two more seasons and is structured like one uber long movie.  It’s just not working for Fringe, because Fringe is largely episodic, and when they never delve into the mythology and only scratch the surface of the supernatural, these mysteries of the week lost the intrigue that the show is–in my opinion–supposed to have had.  Don’t get me wrong, this wasn’t a bad episode.  It’s just not as good as the show could/should be.

 Fringewon’t air a new episode until 11/11/08.  Maybe, like Joss Whedon did with Dollhouse, the creative team have taken some time to improve scripts.  Hopefully, that is the case.

5/10

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