"Fringe" The No-Brainer (2009)

Director:

John Polson

Writers:

J.J. Abrams (creator) &
Alex Kurtzman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Fringe" (2008)

Original Air Date:

27 January 2009 (Season 1, Episode 12)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Two mens' brains are liquefied and their only apparent connection is that they both downloaded a huge file before dying. |

Plot Keywords:

Bad Cop | Institutionalisation | Mental Illness | Evil Cop | Teen Murder

Cast

Anna Torv	...	Agent Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson	...	Peter Bishop
Lance Reddick	...	Agent Phillip Broyles
Kirk Acevedo	...	Agent Charlie Francis
Blair Brown	...	Nina Sharp (credit only)
Jasika Nicole	...	Astrid Farnsworth
Mark Valley	...	John Scott (credit only)
John Noble	...	Dr. Walter Bishop
Chris Bauer	...	Brian Dempsey
Michael Gaston	...	Sanford Harris
Ari Graynor	...	Rachel
Mary Beth Peil	...	Jessica Warren
Noah Fleiss	...	Luke Dempsey
Gbenga Akinnagbe	...	Akim
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kelly Kirklyn	...	Miriam
Susan Knight	...	Cynthia Wiles
Randy Kovitz	...	Mark
Mark Lotito	...	Paul Wiles
Jake O'Connor	...	Gregory Wiles
Lily Pilblad	...	Ella
Mark Elliot Wilson	...	Salesman

Runtime:

Ireland:52 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

The Observer can be seen standing on a corner when Olivia is driving to save Ella from the program.

Soundtrack:

Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

Strong characters and their relationships make up for a lackluster but intriguing plot.

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

And they say too much time on the computer is bad for your mind? A literal killer computer virus stalks the world wide web as it claims it's victims, the first being a teenage boy who was having a conversation with another, who so happens to have a connection to all of this. Olivia and Peter arrive onto the scene and try to search for clues, they come down to meet up with the victim's friend but find nothing, then yet another virus strike happens at a local car shop. But the creator of the virus is quite aware of the FBI's investigations, he tries to attack a person very important to Olivia's life-Her niece. Meanwhile Peter meets an old woman outside of Harvard University, someone who lost her own daughter supposedly from Walter years ago. Peter would like this to be over but is concerned she'll take him away.

This episode, sadly, felt like a no-brainier to me( and the story structure was so good, however how the villain pulled it off was never answered), I just wasn't engaged as I was with the other episodes seen so far, but I don't think this was the worst though, as the characters are at their strongest here and their relationships between them are deep, those were very well handled.

The acting was fantastic however I felt Joshua Jackson overreacted a bit in his heroic voice, made it seem a bit too 80's like, and a bit corny at that.

All in all, this episode was simply OK, next week should be better though, as far as concept goes any who...

6/10.