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THE DAILY REVIEW
Back at Last: Fringe and Rescue Me
By Matt Roush April 07, 2009 08:44 AM EST
... Sometimes being patient pays off. After resting it during the first months of American Idol madness, Fox tonight brings back its mystifying sci-fi curiosity Fringe, giving the freshman series the best time period imaginable [9pm]. (Unless it turns out to be a curse, and so many confused or repelled Idol fans tune out that Fox starts having second thoughts about its apparent devotion to this weird show.)
... I’ve run hot and cold on Fringe all season, but tonight’s episode is a strong re-introduction to the series, without bogging down too heavily in the back-story murky mythology (with one climactic exception), which may frustrate some of the show’s more fervent loyalists. (I’m always sorry when Blair Brown’s Nina Sharp is MIA, as is the case tonight.) The episode also provides a good showcase for Anna Torv as FBI agent Olivia Dunham, who can often seem a blank cipher but here shows real empathy as she bonds with a feral child found living underground at a demolition site. This mute little boy (hauntingly played by Spencer List) has the creepy ability to forecast crimes about to be committed by a serial killer the feds dub “The Artist.”
Naturally, it falls to crazed genius Walter Bishop (the always-terrific John Noble) to try to figure out what makes the kid tick. “My dear,” he tells Olivia, “There is much that is unexplained. Until it is.” Is there maybe room for this mad scientist on Lost? Walter also has a beguilingly funny moment as he dances to music while trying to charm the boy into donning a scary “neurostimulator” helmet. Touches like that go a long way toward making Fringe something more than a fringe dweller ...
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