Daedalus and Icarus Fringe Fox Network, Fridays, 9 PM “Os” Written by Josh Singer & Graham Roland Directed by Brad Anderson “It’s like using balloons to steal bowling balls.” — Walter Just when I thought we had our feet on solid ground, comes an episode of Fringe that knocked me right off my pins. We start with floating people, bong stories, and Jorge Garcia; we end with shapeshifter data discs, soul magnets and harmonic convergences. It was fun, it was sad, it was exciting, but most of all it caught me flat-footed with a twist I never saw coming, but which in…
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Fringe: “6B”
Healing the Breach Fringe Fox Network, Fridays, 9 PM “6B” Written by Glenn Whitman & Robert Chiapetta Directed by Thomas Yatsko “Do you really think this is the end of the world as we know it?” — Olivia Fringe often makes it easy to forget how tenuous the connections between its stories and reality really are; the show is usually so well written that the suspension of disbelief required to believe in, say, parallel universes, is easy and automatic. But then there are episodes like this one, which jolt me so far out of the story with an absurd premise that…