So over the last week or so, I finally got round to watching the Season 1 DVD of Fringe that I got for Christmas and now that I’ve watched it all the way through and examined the boxsets special features I thought I might as well post a review to show your reading people what I thought of it. Now I feel I should preface this by saying I went in not really expecting much, the adverts for Fringe on TV (currently for Season 3) didn't really entice me and it looked like an X Files clone to me, which to a certain extent it is. However I was pleasantly surprised, I immediately found the premise intriguing, the characters instantly likable and engaging and the storyline coherent and understandable.
Fringe follows Olivia Dunham, an astute FBI agent, who is unwilling dragged into the unknown and unpredicatable world of "Fringe Science" through a series of cases known as "The Pattern" which all involve a type of scientific undertaking previously unheard of, but as we find out, not untested. She is joined in her investigations by Doctor Walter Bishop, a scientist who has had previous experiance with this kind of phenomena; but has also spent the last 17 years locked up in a mental institute after a lab explosion killed one of his assistents and therefore is a bit.......out of it. The are also joined by Walter's reluctant son Peter Bishop, who hasn't spoken to his father since he was incarcerated, but is there on Olivia's behest as he calms and focus' Walter to the task at hand. Now at first I wasn't sure if i would like Olivia as the main character, she seemed to be too uptight and job focused to be an interesting character, but she blossomed quite quickly and you saw the vunerable elements of her character and how she was more human than I thought she had seemed at the start. However my favourite character by far was Walter himself, with his zany personality, intermittent streams of both genius and silly comments, extensive knowledge of so called pseudoscience and chemistry skills that general yield illegal substances, pretty much make each episode for me.
Overall I won't go into too much detail if you haven't seen any of the series so far, but i will simply say my favourite eps from season 1 were "Safe" and "Ability" as they showed by far the best elements of the characters and created some interesting plot lines. If you haven't yet seen Fringe, then i would definatly reccommend you go watch it, some of the plot lines are a tad predictable but its sense of dramatic irony is subtle enough that you don't question the characters intelligence or reasoning in the investigations they take part in. Overall an excellent first season of a show and i look forward to get my hands on season two
Score: 9/10
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