Rhianna Banana

Review of Fringe, the best new show on TV!

Pierre and I just got back from the Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio) for their Fall Preview Parties. Pierre and I are members of the Paley Center, thanks to a gift membership from my brother. We go there about once a month to watch shows from their collection. This week and next week, they're showing pilots of new fall shows and season premieres of other shows. It's free! Tonight was the Fox night, so we watched Fringe, Do Not Disturb and Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles. The Terminator was bad, Do Not disturb was okay, but Fringe was incredible! We really liked it and I think we are definitely going to watch it this year. Since we are members at the Paley Center, we also got to attend a members only reception before the previews, with wine and cheese =)

Fringe is the new show from J.J. Abrams, the creator of Lost and Alias. The series premiere is next Tuesday on Fox from 8-9:35pm. Everyone should watch it! The show has everything: a great cast, good writing, scary moments, humor, family tension, a love triangle, Harvard, Bob Esponja, and a cow. The show is anchored by Anna Torv, a newcomer. She's great. Tough, relatable, smart, and gorgeous. Pierre and I also really liked John Noble, who plays the mad scientist Walter Bishop. He's funny and gets some of the best lines in the premiere. It was also nice to see Pacey (Joshua Jackson) as Bishop's estranged son. I'm glad he still has a career! Since we watched it in a big theater with lots of other people, it felt like a movie, and I would have paid money to see it in a theater. I even have to admit that it was better than the recent X-Files movie. It sounds like X-Files, but it's not entirely the same. Yes, the main character is an FBI agent, and she is investigating unexplained phenomenon, but I think there will not be all the alien drama that made X-Files unwatchable at times. The pacing is fast, with just the right amount of action and character development.

So that's my review of Fringe! Stay tuned next week when Pierre (on his blog) or I will review some of the new fall offerings and/or season premieres from NBC (Chuck, Life, Lipstick Jungle) and ABC (Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, Eli Stone).

posted by Unknown @ Thursday, September 04, 2008