Fringe: Full Series Retrospective
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Fringe is a sci-fi thriller following the investigations of the FBI's Fringe division, which investigates strange scientific phenomenon. Telekinetic agent Olivia Dunham, mad scientist Walter Bishop, and Walter's son Peter soon find themselves embroiled in a conflict with a parallel universe, all while a shadowy organization of mysterious humanoids nicknamed "Observers" monitor the teams actions with plans of their own.
Created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, with Jeff Pinkner and J.H Wyman serving as showrunners. Starring Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham / Fauxlivia, John Noble as Walter Bishop / Walternate, Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop, Jasika Nicole as Astrid Farnsworth, Lance Reddick as Phillip Broyles, Blair Brown as Nina Sharp, Michael Cerveris as September / Donald, Kirk Acevedo as Charlie Francis, Seth Gabel as Lincoln Lee, Ryan McDonald as Brandon Fayette, Mark Valley as John Scott, Michael Kopsa as Captain Windmark, Leonard Nimoy as William Bell, Ari Graynor as Rachel Dunham, Eugene Lipinski as December, Jared Harris as David Robert Jones, Sebastian Roché as Thomas Jerome Newton, Shaun Smyth as Anil, Kevin Corrigan as Sam Weiss, Georgina Haig as Henrietta Bishop, Jarod Joseph as Agent Tim, Rowan Longworth as Michael, Lily Pilblad as Ella, Orla Brady as Elizabeth Bishop, Clark Middleton as Edward Markham, Chance Kelly as Mitchell Loeb, Michael J Rogers as Mueller, Michael Gaston as Sanford Harris, Andre Royo as Henry Arliss Higgins and Meghan Markle as Amy Jessup. Guest stars include William Sadler, Martha Plimpton, Peter Weller, Chadwick Boseman, Christopher Lloyd, Stephen Root, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Gillian Jacobs.
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RIP Lance Reddick. He was absolutely one of the best things about Fringe.
wait what he died nooooo
@@NessysSanctuary Yeah, this past Friday. :(
No freaking way....I was just getting angry at Lance in Horizon Forbidden West and exclaiming how awesome of an actor he is to my girl. We loved Fringe more than most shows out there.
@@HansDester Yeah I actually just gotten back into destiny maybe 3 days before he passed. (Commander Zavala voice actor) he will be missed greatly. 😓
I was just enjoying him as the voice of the Dragon Thordak in The Legend of Vox Machina :(
This is my absolute favorite show. It kills me to see how underappreciated it is.
I've rewatched this series at least 4 times. love it. this might be the first video essay I've ever seen on it. awesome
Same!!
Channel Zero just topped Fringe for me.
@@jmerriman1000 A first for me too! Nice to see it getting some attention.
@@johnfischer1988 Oh, me too. I loaned my boxed set to my cousin and her husband fully expecting them to like it and they returned it before even finishing season 1. 🙄 Oh well. Their loss.
Fringe was ahead of its time. It's honestly frusturating how underrated the show is. I finished the series recently and it has such a great storyline and characters. Every actor in the show acted their asses off, espeically John Noble and Anna Torv. Like I get if season 1 may be a bit slow because it was sort of like a 'case of the week' each episode, but it adds to the story (I PROMISE). Everything will pick up in season 2 and it just gets better every season. So please, if you are hesitant in continuing the show. Don't stop! The plot thickens!
While I agree that the show was totally underrated, I don't think it would have lasted that long should it have been made today. It worked perfectly as a hybrid of procedural and serialized storytelling and we don't have much procedurals these times, especially when streamers are leaning more towards shorter seasons with one main story and little time for actual character development and filler episodes (that help so much when it comes to character development.) I also think that there's so much content these days, that it would have been buried in a sea of shows. I truly enjoyed Fringe and it's one of my all-time favorites and I think the fact that I had to watch it weekly instead of binge watching it made for a much more satisfying experience.
This is one of my favorite series by far. For telling such a story at a time when storytelling through TV series was still hindered by needing to be accessible by audiences who happens to turn the TV on at the time, They killed it. The redemption that Walter was always striving for and Olivia and Peter's relationship that has time to breath was great. The love between father and son was amazing. Even though it's so messed up that he took another Peter he ended up being a better father than Walternate ever could have been. The way they left bread crumbs leading up to the big reveals about Peter's origin were perfect. For how much change the writer and show runners went through this show was phenomenal. It reminds me of some great comic runs that go through different writers and end up working out great. The parallel universe that ends up getting a lot of focus is so great. The premiere of Season 2 was awesome, just a thrill ride. The way Walter sacrifices himself at the end with the white rose. Oh man it's soooo beautiful. It has flaws for sure but it's a phenomenal series with amazing talent.
I absolutely adore Fringe. It was my all time favorite when it was on the air and I still watch it religiously. I am so glad you reviewed it in this way there are not nearly enough RUclips videos discussing this underrated Sci Fi series.
When you introduced her as "Asteroid Farnsworth"... a cheeky in-joke nod. I like it. Walter Bishop is probably one of my favorite fictional characters.
The actress really dislikes that they did that for so long , she felt that after a while it was a little degrading . I didn't mind it so much thought it was funny but you know people are getting offended nowadays. The fact that she was the only African American and the only one it was done to I kinda got it. But it's still funny to me.
@@luissantiago3791Was she really the only black character in the show?
I laughed out loud with that one.
@@danielchettiar5670The comment you replied to broyles my blood.
RIP Lance Reddick, he was such a vital component of this show :(
John Noble never getting an Emmy nomination is a crime.
My thoughts exactly.
John Noblenative sure as hell got one. 😉
You are absolutely correct
SERIOUSLY NOT, what a shame !
Oh my gosh, what a welcome surprise! This show has been on my mind lately, because Anna Torv (Olivia) was recently in 'The Last of Us' tv show and that got me thinking about 'Fringe' again. I loved this show so much.
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I hope she finds a better show to be a part of in the future
Another retrospective I’ll watch for another show I’ve never seen. That’s how good you are.
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Ha! 100% this guy is great
exactly.
Yes.
Same.
Ive noticed in a lot of memoriam's to Lance Reddick, they leave Fringe out a lot. It's basically where I first discovered him. I didnt see The Wire until years later. Fringe was the last regular network show I dedicated my time and enthusiasm to watching. Once it left the air, I never returned to regular network tv again.
John Noble's facial expressions and vocal intonation in this show were unreal. His primary character was incredible
As a former Dawson's Creek fangirl, I started the show just to see Josh Jackson again. But I was quickly hooked! Such a fun & interesting show
ngl. I find him the weakest link in the show. It's like they have to shove his character down our throats and force a relationship with the FL so that he can stay relevant to the show.
It really felt that the writers had to write him as the ultimate machine operator to save the world to make him more heroic than he appeared to be.
It's a joke that a consultant get to go the frontline with the FBI.
His acting is really average too.
He was the reason I did the inverted actually, Dawson's Creek was only able to get me to stick to 2 seasons though
I remember this show alongside a lot of other sci-fi adjacent shows like Warehouse 13 or Haven, or even older ones like Roswell of Kyle XY, just really fun shows that feel like they belong perfectly in their era
It really was an amazing time for sci fi TV
I don't know if there were actually more contemporary sci-fi and fantasy series in that mid-2000s to mid-2010s era, but it sure seemed like it and looking back a lot of them were at least enjoyable. You mentioned a few, but I myself loved The Middleman, Eureka, and Alphas. Now, I think Fringe is clearly several cuts above the various Sci-Fi Channel Originals and Canadian imports that showed up in that period, but thinking about it all does make me miss those days.
I remember being in Santa Monica and watching an airplane write "Who is Kyle XY" in the sky before the show came out!
It warms my heart that so many people loved this show. This and Lost has been my fav through the years and I crave something new that is this good. Fringe is one of those shows that change the way you look at things and spark so many new ideas and understanding of reality, it’s just phenomenal! Will def watch it again soon, just too awesome to forget❤
The talent and voice of Lance Reddick will be missed.
How sad. I didn´t know. Thank you for the information!
Fringe!!!! Such an underrated show that flew under the radar! I'm so excited you did this retrospective and I can't wait to watch it.
I still love "Belliivia" it was still awesome! I loved it! Anna's impersonation of Leonard, I can't imagine anyone better!
Speaking of mystery box shows, I have to recommend The Leftovers. It's an extreme anti-mystery box show, with so many mysteries that are setup, with no answer ever revealed or even planned by the writers. It sounds like it would be a frustrating watch but it all comes together so well. I would say if you like the episode "Fly" of BrBa, you might like The Leftovers because while there definetly is a plot, it takes a backseat to the characters. Not a show for everyone but the perfect show for me, and the best show ever in my opinion.
Loved the leftovers
The Leftovers stars Anna Torv's doppelganger, Carrie Coon. I kept having to remind myself that I wasn't watching Anna opposite Justin Theroux.
astrid is the unsung, underappreciated hero, i stg
I completely agree! Also her portrayal of her alternate self was so good. Love the episode where they meet.
I have had a soft spot for this show for the last decade despite probably only watching through it's entirety 1.5 times. So glad to see a retrospective like this affirm that my nostalgia isnt just that!
Also yeah. Lance Reddick became a voice engraved in my psyche for probably the rest of my life thanks to this show. Along with Jared Harris and so many other performances. Thanks for this excellent hour and a half tribute!!!
This was my FAVORITE show as a teenager and I’m rewatching it now. It’s so sad how under-appreciated and unknown Fringe is!
So many people commented about Lance Reddick being awesome just a week ago and then he dies yesterday, it’s heartbreaking.
This is truly one of the best shows ever made.
More people should watch it.
It sucks that shows like this and Agents of Shield are weakest at the beginning and people don't stick around for the best parts.
Fringe is one of my favorite shows ever. I watched it while it was premiering and instantly became obsessed. Every time I rewatch it I am still hit by how amazing it is.
Walter is maybe the best Character in a TV show I ever saw. He touched my heart.
That scene of him listening to Yazoo always hits me
I absolutely loved this show, I don’t get why it wasn’t more popular. It was X-files but with good acting. Also RIP Lance Reddick, you were always a highlight in any show/movie you appeared in.
Cause it was a smart, well written, inventive and incredibly original science fiction show. It was guaranteed to be a cult series.
One can also say "it was X-Files but actually good"
The term underrated is overused but this show fits the bill. It’s not the average sci-fi show and the feels it brings is immense.
I never knew this got a 4th and 5th season. I loved this show and always wanted more. Glad I saw this vid show up on my recommended!
the absolute best of the X-Files descendants, A+ and Anna Torv great lead. Also, John Noble just makes everything he is in better.
Such an amazing show 😩. There was just something about Anna Torv's acting that always captivated my attention.
mine too she was a amazing character and actress
You are going to make me find this and binge it, aren’t you?
This was a great show. I love to return to it every few years. And yes, I skip the whole first season.
When I watched “Peter” the first time I knew that while the casting for this series was great it was the writing for Walter Bishop and John Noble’s performance that really sealed it for me. He plays, Crazy, Tripping, Genius, Comedic, Savant, and Megalomaniac, all to sweet perfection, across Walter and “Walternate.”
The fact that Abrams and Noble new exactly what they wanted to do with this character is what allowed the show to find it’s footing. I was a teenager when X-Files aired and got to watch it religiously through college. This show brilliantly captured the 20th Century “Alien Conspiracy” trope in a PRE high-speed internet world.
I think that Fringe was the Seminole 21st century version of this and I always loved how it avoided “Aliens” and made “US” the architects of our own prison.
love this series, despite its flaws. Peter and his dad's relationship development alone is worth it. So moving.
There are a *lot* of TV/Movie criticism channels on RUclips. I've seen tons of them. You're better than channels with 20x the subs. The depth you go to is impressive, but the insight you give in evaluating the strengths and weaknesses is what I like best. I'm thinking of season 4, specifically. The dissonance between what the audience expected in Olivia's and Peter's storyline and what we actually got, the half-measure of giving Olivia her memories back, all of that was very well said
One thing I like is that when spoken, alternate Olivia's nickname could have two spellings, both accurate; Fauxlivia and Foelivia.
Loved Fringe, Lance Reddick(Broyles) great here. Gone now, only 60, a loss.
Look, all im saying is that the William Bell "God made us in His image so we should also be gods" line is one of the hardest villain lines in the show, and that's no easy feat.
Bizarre, I've been trying to find Fringe retrospectives for a long time and it seems the show is mostly forgotten. Great vid!
I fucking love Astrid. She kick ass in her own way. Its like, oh yea! She's an agent! Of course she can kill people.
This show is absolutely fantastic! I loved all seasons. Yes even the last :) Every scifi fan should add it to bucket list...
John Noble is the most humble sweet man in the business, a true class act.
I cannot express enough how welcome this is, for fringe content is scarce on youtube. Bless your heart
I remembered being so happy with this show. My siblings and I used to binge on The X-Files as kids until our mum caught up on us watching the episode "Home" and decided it was too dark. She liked The X-Files too so she kinda felt bad that she's making us miss out so she looked for a similar "less dark" series and discovered Fringe. It was fantastic! We watched the whole thing and though it couldn't replace The X-Files, it was still a great alternative for until we got old enough to continue watching The X-Files.
Given that the white tulip reappears in the series finale, I understood that the characters' memories of Peter were restored, and his whole erasure from the timelines by the Observers was undone, in the S4 finale.
Upon further review, it looks like I'd forgotten that the observer child restored only Walter's memory. I suppose it's easy to lose track in this show.
Thank you for reminding me of the word “vagenda,” which I had forgotten was one of my favourite terms from the show
This was my first big binge watch 8 years ago, I LOVE this show. Great retrospective! Definitely makes me wanna rewatch
I seriously loved this series!
One thing that you didn't touch on, but I find an interesting little tidbit as well. Is that the Observers (especially the 'main' one that was seen during the beginning seasons) were eventually kind of tossed everywhere along the network that the show was running on. (Being Dutch, I don't know the original network. I wanna say ABC? But I can be seriously wrong.)
So you could see an Observer in like baseball games. Other shows in the backgrounds. The occasional custom ad for that network. Etc. It was really neat, because it caused people to pay attention and then go back to the series as well. As someone who doesn't live in the US. I am frankly a little sad about not having been able to witness that. Other than the outside sources that I have seen it being talked about, like Reddit, or even the Wiki at that point (I don't know if it's still on there. It used to be.)
Fringe developed into one of the better "Boot Strap Paradox" stories I've had the plesure of watching.
[Observers = the extinction of life on Earth, the series of Fringe is how the people that Walter encounters in the futre prevent this extinction event, because if Walter doesn't go to that future with his knowledge and experience as evidence, life on earth becomes extinct. Quite possibly this is the result of another scientific team from the Observer reality? And Peter's return and Olivia's memories in series 4 are part of a greater experiment]
The previous section of my comment is so I can take the "power of love" explination and put it in the trash lol.. Another wonderful paradox of thought and logic. Argh, too feel safe again.....
As a first time viewer of your channel, this is genuinely a Good review. well done
Lance Reddick was excellent in this and The Wire. It is a bummer to see him go.
Watching this after Lance reddick just passed leaves a sour spot. Loved him in this show.
Fringe is my favorite show of all time, I'm so glad to see it getting some more attention lately!
I just completed my series rewatch that I started when I heard about Lance Reddick, and I literally said out loud "oh, britta's in this?" when she popped up 😂
This is my favorite show, highly recommend. Also RIP Lance Reddik aka Agent Broyles.
Just found your content and it could not be more up my street. Fringe is one of my favourite shows of all time, flawed as it may be and I always appreciate a good community reference here and there. Watched your GoT vid before this too, gonna be binging your stuff tonight. Awesome work, keep it up!!
Sam Weiss being played by the same actor that plays Professor Professorson, teacher of Conspiracy Theories in U.S. History makes his scenes hit differently on a rewatch incase you hadn't clocked it too.
I’m literally writing this as I just learned the great Lance Reddick has passed away! Im heartbroken, hes a legend!💔
I was totally addicted to this show. Even the silly parts were an integral part of the weave that was Fringe.
I watched this series years ago. And I was really bummed when it went off the air. I can't tell you how pleased I am to have found it again. One of the BEST shows ever.
Wow I had no idea he was originally called "Walternate". In my country it was translated to Walter-ego as in alter ego
This is yet another series that I started and kind of liked but didn't love enough to stay with. Great review to the series as always, you inject a lot of personality into them and it makes them so great to watch.
I missed this show and I glad it has a proper ending
I loved watching this when it was on air - thank you for covering this show!
This is so great! I hope you’ll consider doing Warehouse 13, or Haven too 😊
Unlike Lost and the X-Files, Fringe actually resolves the mysteries and comes to a satisfying conclusion. I enjoyed every episode.
Finally a video essay on this Amazing show. Thank you so much!
I recently saw the show on HLN of all places which got me thinking a lot about the show. You pretty much captured the good and the bad that any fan of the show has had, particularly with how the show should have done more with Astrid.
Also, missed opportunity to call the pocket dimension the backrooms.
What an amazing retrospective, it almost makes me want to rewatch it from the beginning.
Thank you and keep up with good work!
Fringe is my favourite series ever. My partner and i started our 3rd rewatch of it this week and i actually think the first season holds up, even if they did retcon some things it never took me out of it.
47:01 oh yeah! They did a Final Fantasy VIII childhood friends amnesia plot twist!
Loved revisiting what was always appointment television for me. “Letters of Transit” remains one of my favorite episodes of anything ever, and following Kirk Acevedo from this introduced me to one of my favorite shows of all time in “12 Monkeys.” God bless “Fringe,” and the RUclips algorithm that brought me to this.
Olivia Dunham is one of the sexiest female TV characters, she is strong willed and confident whilst still being feminine and emotional. They did a great job of writing what feels like a real life strong women without any need to pander to such a character as is done in most TV shows by 2020s.
This was one of my favorite series, binged it 3 times.
I never liked that the timeline often got overwritten. It really should have just been two more universes that Peter got sucked into. That season 4 trailer was awesome though!
Also keep in mind that I don't think Future Peter and Olivia from the Observer world ever made it back to the past when Walter went with Michael to the future.
Just watched this whole thing! Absolutely brilliant! Wish you wrote season 4 instead. My favorite was definitely season 3. Those first 10 episodes are so fun to watch!
Fringe is a hidden gem I have watched it start to finish countless times it is probably my favourite show of all time and although the 5th season was cut short I’m happy they got to the end.
This series is easily in my Top 10 favorites ever
Woke up randomly at 2am, browsing youtube cause I cant sleep and here we are. Thank you slip.
great retrospective! Fringe was a fantastic series, even with it'S flaws
At some point when it aired on tv I was absolutely consumed by it. The turns it took, the "when you think it cant get any weirder" it exceeded even further.
Man, I love it till this day. The ending of season 1 is carved in my mind since I saw it for the first time. It blew my mind.
I love this show when it came out It was actually one of my 1st introductions to Chadwick
One of the only network shows I watched every week for its entire run. I loved it!
Anna Torv was so damn great. I wish I saw her in more stuff. Lance Reddick was easily. What kept me watching as well. Shit. The whole cast was amazing. There is usually at least one cast member that I didn't care for , but not this show.
I low-key was all up for The Pattern playing out but now realizing the JJ mystery box bs makes me feel better that they quietly moved on from that.
I remember the hype when we found out who Bell was played by and what type of parallel world he was living in. That was some great tv.
You did NOT call her Asteroid Farnsworth at 1:59 😅 You did NOT do this to me I must be in the wrong universe!
Thank for reviewing a show that is desperately underrated but is truly a masterpiece of scifi drama.
In a world of reboots I feel this series could use that if it had a writing team that had a more focused story to produce. I really loved the parallel worlds concept.
My favourite show ever! It’s been my ringtone and wallpaper for pretty much the last decade. The one thing that always aggravated me was that if it were not for September distracting Walternate from the cure, none of it would have happened. September - an advanced, extremely intelligent observer capable of travelling through time and space - had ONE JOB! He made this one little mistake that was so bad it literally almost destroyed two universes but he couldn’t go back in time and correct this mistake? Bruh.
One of my favorite shows ever.... John Noble was great.
So much going on with this series, it's one of my favorite re-watch series. The Walter character is really essential to its entertainment value, but they all did a fantastic job.
RIP Lance Riddick
Boy oh boy! lol I truly was a huge fan of this wild ride. I was glad I was along as each episode premiered. You're absolutely right about it does feel like it makes more sense if you were to start with season two haha. Great show!
Holy crap Lois, another Slip Maker classic
Thank you for this. Fringe was a ton of fun and this retrospective was fantastic. I couldn’t agree more with your analysis.
"I know where you belong ... inside this fringe agent" lmao
I named my daughter Olivia in honor of my favourite character of all times 😅 im gonna watch this show with her one day soon 😅
Fringe is the BEST. Thanks for making this!
i started watching this video because my sister said that you reminded her of me. to the point where she thought this account was secretly run by me.
ngl once you compared the timeline changes to eureka, i fear that she may have had a point. what’s up twin, this was a 10/10 review and analysis
These are fun, I've been watching your retrospectives. Thank you for your hard work!! You cover all the shows I've watched XD
Fringe. I was tuned in weekly when this series was airing. One of my favorite TV shows.
Fully expected you to go all Professor Professorson on the brilliant Kevin Corrigan as Sam after the "Oh, Britta's in this?" zinger.
Having not watched this series since it aired originally, I really enjoyed this recap. Great video, would love to see you give the same treatment to the 4400.
"Best of both worlds" is a Noble pun on any level!