Fringe: #15 on The A.V. Club's 25 Best TV Series of 2010 »
Though Fringe was often entertaining in its first season and a half, it was never essential. That all changed abruptly in early 2010, as the show finally grounded its freak-of-the-week weirdness in deep sadness. In season one, the series introduced the idea that something unusal was going on with one central character, but the season-two episode “Peter” finally dramatized the moment that changed his life, giving the series’ overarching storyline a devastating emotional core, based in a father’s love instead of in theoretical concepts. It only got better from there, as the series expanded its world by further making those concepts concrete. Fringe is that rare blend of inventive ideas, wild ambition, and unexpected soulfulness.
Best episodes: “Peter,” “White Tulip,” “The Plateau”
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