Tag Archives: John Noble
Season Finale: Fringe – “The Day We Died”
“The Day We Died” May 6th, 2011 While I intended on writing something following the Fringe finale all week, I expected it to be a piece about how my general distance from the series made the finale less satisfying than … Continue reading
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Fringe – “Subject 13″
“Subject 13″ February 25th, 2011 Why do we watch Fringe? This is an honest question, and one that I think Fringe has been forcing viewers to ask for a few episodes now. This is not a question of quality: I … Continue reading
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Top 10 Episodes of 2010: “White Tulip” (Fringe)
“White Tulip” Aired: April 15th, 2010 [Cultural Learnings' Top 10 Episodes of 2010 are in no particular order, and are purely subjective - for more information, and the complete list as it goes up, click here.] Fringe did not end … Continue reading
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Season Premiere: Fringe – “Olivia”
“Olivia” September 23rd, 2010 Earlier this year, I wrote about what I called “procedural pacing,” wherein FX’s Justified gradually became more serialized throughout its first season: by starting with a more procedural format, and then having that format be interrupted … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Fringe – “Over There: Part 2″
“Over There: Part 2″ May 20th, 2010 When Fringe began, its “pseudoscience” was a vague conspiracy – the “Pattern” was ill-defined and faceless, a series of circumstances with no causation and thus no real emotional stakes. Over time, the show … Continue reading
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Fringe – “Northwest Passage”
“Northwest Passage” May 6th, 2010 I didn’t necessarily need to go back to review last week’s episode of Fringe, considering that I saw it quite a few days late and it wasn’t particularly spectacular, but there was some interesting conversation … Continue reading
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Fringe – “The Man from the Other Side”
“The Man from the Other Side” April 22nd, 2010 In a perfect world, I wouldn’t have been caught up in thesis edits last week, as I thought “White Tulip” was such a pitch-perfect installment of Fringe that it deserved some … Continue reading
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Fringe – “Peter”
“Peter” April 1st, 2010 In its promotions for the show, FOX sells Fringe based on the tagline “New Cases. Endless Possibilities.” But what’s interesting, and ultimately enormously compelling, about “Peter” is that the possibilities aren’t endless at all: we know … Continue reading
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