Olivia’s Odyssey By Sarah Stegall Copyright © 2010 by Sarah Stegall Fringe Thursdays on Fox at 9/8 E/C “Olivia” Written by J.H. Wyman & Jeff Pinkner Directed by Joe Chappelle I’m stuck here. —Olivia One of the oldest stories in Western literature, and still a compelling tale, is The Odyssey. The sequel to Homer’s best-selling Trojan War epic The Iliad, it’s all about a man who just wants to go home. His way is blocked by a series of mysterious forces, supernatural beings, powers he cannot understand. But no matter what marvels and wonders he encounters, he persists. The producers of Fringe have brilliantly…
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Fringe: “Subject 9”
The Damnation of Walter Bishop Fringe Fox Network, Fridays, 9 PM “Subject 9” Written by Jeff Pinkner & J.H. Wyman & Akiva Goldsman Directed by Frederick E.O. Toye “Sometimes the world we have is not the world we want.” —Elizabeth Bishop Having brought Peter and Olivia together in the last episode of Fringe, the show now takes a step back into that alternate reality we all share: memory. In an episode in which Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson do not even appear, their earlier selves are explored in a “flashback” episode which dresses John Noble in the worst wig ever, and…