Movie experience: Fringe

Hi, my dear friends!

It seems like an eternity has passed since I last wrote about the films I managed to watch. For the last month and a half, I simply couldn’t find the strength to watch anything new. Perhaps my brain was too overloaded with information, I had many orders and wrote article after article. Now that the flow of orders has become a little less, I felt that I wouldn’t mind watching something new (before that, I simply turned on any film or TV series that I had already seen more than once, so I got the background noise I needed without having to delve into the repetitiousness plot).

And so I started looking for something new for myself, but at the same time not too burdensome. The whole difficulty was that I didn’t know what I exactly wanted. I chose the simplest path: under the series that I watched last, there was a list of similar series. I started just scrolling through it until I finally settled on the series Fringe.

Below, as always, I added a description taken from Wikipedia. I must say that it is quite accurate, and I am unlikely to write better.

Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. It premiered on the Fox television network on September 9, 2008, and concluded on January 18, 2013, after five seasons comprising 100 episodes. An FBI agent, Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv); a genius but dysfunctional scientist, Walter Bishop (John Noble); and his son with a troubled past, Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson), are all members of a newly formed Fringe Division in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, and under the supervision of Homeland Security, the team uses fringe science along with traditional FBI investigative techniques to investigate a series of unexplained, often ghastly, occurrences which are related to mysteries surrounding a parallel universe.

The series has been described as a hybrid of fantasy, procedural dramas, and serials, influenced by films like Altered States and television shows such as Lost, The X-Files, and The Twilight Zone. The series began as a traditional mystery-of-the-week series and became more serialized in later seasons. Most episodes contain a standalone plot, with several others also exploring the series' overarching mythology.

Critical reception was lukewarm at first but became more favorable after the first season, when the series began to explore its mythology, including parallel universes and alternate timelines. The show, along with cast and crew, was nominated for many major awards. Despite its move to the "Friday night death slot" and low ratings, the series developed a cult following. It also spawned two six-part comic book series, an alternate reality game, and three novels.
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And now, as usual, I will share my impressions. To be honest, the first episode didn't impress me. I already wanted to look for something else, but I was... too lazy. Well, OK, I thought, I’ll watch a couple more episodes, especially since by the time they’re finished I’ll be asleep anyway! But oddly enough, the series captured my attention.

Whether you like science fiction or not, one cannot but agree that in this complex world we are surrounded by many things that we do not know about and which we do not understand. I'm not at all a follower of a sect of fans of the world conspiracy theory or anything like that, but I know one thing: you may not believe in electricity, but. If you stick your fingers into a socket you will be electrocuted as if you were a true electrician! Therefore, I advise you to watch this series without getting too immersed in scientific facts, but simply enjoy the mixture of a light dose of science fiction and a detective plot.

It should be added that the series is quite old and some of the technical details seem simply naive today. I will repeat once again - just relax, because today's world will look just as naive in five to seven years.