Entanglement Fringe Fox Network, Fridays, 9 PM “The Last Sam Weiss” Written by Monica Owusu-Breen & Alison Schapker Directed by Thomas Yatko “It’s not a Doomsday device, but it’s acting like one.” —Sam Weiss At this point, Fringe has abandoned all effort to do a case-of-the-week, and is frantically rushing toward a stunning (I hope) denouement. At the time this episode and the season finale were written, the producers probably did not know that the series would be picked up for another season, so it’s looking a lot like aseries finale. So even if it isn’t really the end of the show, it’s acting like…
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Fringe: “6:02 AM EST”
Destroyer of Worlds Fringe Fox Network, Fridays, 9 PM “6:02 AM EST” Written by David Wilcox & Josh Singer & Graham Roland Directed by Jeannot Swarc “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” — Bhagavad Gita, chapter 11, verse 32. After last week’s precedent-shattering excursion into fantasy, we return to a world on the brink of collapse, a world whose destruction Walter blames himself for. Vortexes are opening up, as in the Other Universe; in the opening sequences we see a herd of sheep, along with their shepherds abiding in the fields, disappear. At the same moment (6:02 AM…