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…
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Fringe: “Immortality”
On the Brink of Extinction Fringe Fox Network, Fridays, 9 PM “Immortality” Written by David Wilcox & Ethan Gross Directed by Brad Anderson “Bugs had eaten their way from the inside out.” – Lincoln Lee To paraphrase Indiana Jones: Roaches. Why did it have to be roaches? The creature I most abhor on Earth, on my TV screen, in my favorite program. I thought nothing could top the liquid-brain episode of Fringe, but I was wrong. Yech. But then, all good horror exploits our deepest fears, so finding roaches pop up in a TV show dedicated to fear was inevitable. In…