Danger, Will Robinson! The engines canna take it, Captain. There are simply too many pop culture references, Mrs Peel, and unless you fetch Skippy right now, Commissioner Gordon is going to be in serious trouble.
Welcome to The Middleman, a show that pelts you with a 1,001 ironic references per second without ever really knowing why or what it's even satirising. It's still funny, though.
In the US: Tuesdays, 9/8c, Fox. Starts 9th Sept In the UK: Not yet acquired, because the UK ain't buying not nothing right now
There are things in the world that can't be explained, like the popularity of jazz or mysterious phenomena such as UFOs. Then there are other things that are far more easily explained, such as 'déjà vu' – the feeling that you've seen something before. That's usually because you have. In the case of Fringe, it's because you probably saw an episode of The X-Files once and buried it in the back of your mind.
Fringe, despite the initial presence of government agents investigating weird and spooky things, is fortunately more than just a simple retread of past Fox successes. It's a disturbing glimpse into a parallel world in which weird fringe science of the 70s actually turned up results, results that are affecting – and sometimes destroying – life as we know it in the present.
Well, you should all have seen this now. It was on US TV last week, Sky One last night, so that's all the bases covered. Nevertheless, follow me over the jump, to preserve the sensibilities of those who Sky+-ed it.
Some enterprising Lost fan has stuck together the edited highlights of all the Lost flash-forwards in the correct sequence*. So what did happen once they got off the island – now you know.
* There's some nitpicking by others, but you get the point
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