Tag: Phillip Broyles
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Chitchat: Reflecting on the end of Fringe
In the aftermath of Fringe’s series finale, I exchanged some emails with friend of the site Cameron White. Cory: Well Cameron, Fringe is over. The 13-episode final season had its ups and downs (which we’ll get to), but the finale played it pretty straight. There weren’t too many BIG surprises and the emotional beats carried the […]
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2011-2012 season wrap: Fringe
The 2011-2012 television season has been over for almost a couple of weeks now, which means a sufficient amount of time has passed and we are primed to reflect. Over the next handful of days, I will be producing some pieces and lists looking back on the season that was. I missed out on a […]
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Review: Fringe, “Back To Where You’ve Never Been”
I spent a good deal of time at the end of 2011 being frustrated and disappointed with Fringe. I wrote a review or two and did two podcasts about the first part of the series’ fourth season and if you recall those products, you’ll remember that I felt like Fringe’s approach to this second pair […]
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TV Surveillance Podcast Episode 16 — Welcome to the Seventh Annual Winchester Brother Angst-Off!
In the latest episode of the TV Surveillance podcast, I am joined by friends and former guests Tim Bavlnka and Chris Ryan for a wide-ranging discussion of all things Fringe season four and Supernatural season seven. As always, I’ll remind you that you can subscribe to the TVS podcast through iTunes, if you’d like. Please take a moment to […]
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Review: Fringe, “Subject 9”
If you’ve been keeping up with TV Surveillance and following me on Twitter, you know that I haven’t been the biggest fan of the early going of Fringe season four. As I said in my short review of the premiere and in my extended podcast conversation with my buddy Tim Bavlnka, the series seemed aimless […]
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Season Premiere review — Fringe, “Neither Here Nor There”
I’m short on time this weekend, but I wanted to jot down a few thoughts on the season four premiere of Fringe. This post will be brief. Fringe is in a weird position. Or at least it seems that way to me. Season three discarded all pretensions and presumptions of general popularity and dove quickly and […]
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Season Finale — Fringe, “The Day We Died”
Hey folks, I had a busy weekend full of personal business, so I’ll be posting some reviews of Friday television today. They’re late and probably a bit shorter than usual, but hopefully they’re still worth reading. I said in my review of Fringe‘s penultimate episode that this season was one of my favorite of recent […]
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Fringe, “The Last Sam Weiss”
I haven’t been able to write about Fringe since “Stowaway” and most of the second half of the season, I’ve been spotty with my reviews. It’s a scheduling issue, and I apologize. And frankly, I don’t actually have a lot of time to write this review of last night’s penultimate episode, “The Last Sam Weiss,” […]
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Fringe, “Stowaway”
Because I was taking something of a minor sabbatical from criticism for my spring break last week, I didn’t write a review or get to put down some thoughts on the cliffhanger from last week’s Fringe. You know, the one where William Bell’s soul/consciousness took over Olivia’s body, which was probably one of the biggest WHAT THE […]
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Fringe, “6B”
I haven’t been able to write about the last few week’s of Fringe due to some traveling and odd scheduling matters and I’m actually glad about that since the season seems to be transitioning into a place that I’m not fully ready to embrace yet. I have no problem admitting that I really want Peter […]
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Fringe, “Reciprocity”
Hola Fringe fans! I didn’t get to review last week’s episode because I was traveling, but let me just say this: it was a good one. People seemed to be really jacked up about “Firefly” and while I don’t overtly disagree with the enthusiasm, I think a lot of it had to do with the […]
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Fringe, “Marionette”
Last week, after Fringe‘s fantastic episode that felt like a mid-season finale that actually wasn’t a mid-season finale, I smarted off on Twitter about how this week’s episode would be a return to the episodes that we didn’t care as much about. Of course, I was being an asshole, because all Fringe episodes should be […]
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Fringe, “Entrada”
Stupid scheduling mishaps have led to me not writing about Fringe for at least the last couple episodes and maybe three episodes. That’s unfortunate, because you all know that Fringe has been awesome in almost every way for the first seven episodes this season. Well, make that eight episodes actually, because “Entrada” is another damn […]
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Fringe, “Amber 31422”
Fringe has been gone too long. It’s been less than a month, but when the best drama series on network television goes away, I miss it. What can I say? Tonight, the series makes its return to the alternate universe where we get some new information about the quarantines, as well dipped further into Olivia’s psyche […]
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Fringe, “Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?”
Although I find “Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?” to be the weakest of Fringe‘s opening four episodes of season three, it still provides an intriguing look into the psyches of the title characters and furthers the confusing situation Fauxlivia currently finds herself in. Since the shapeshifters were introduced into the series in the season […]
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