On Fringe, two worlds are even better than one.
As befits a show that has, in its second season, turned into one of TV's best, Fringe wrapped up on Fox with the end of a two-parter that was thrilling, romantic, funny and as satisfying as a finale can be. Surely an episode that good left Fringe fans wanting more — and wondering how long it's going to take Peter and Walter to figure out that they brought the wrong Olivia back with them from the alternate universe, and she's up to no good.
While there were many light moments, most of them provided by the aging Odd Couple bickering between John Noble's Walter and Leonard Nimoy's (possibly now deceased) William Bell, there were also more serious undertones. Walter's well-intended but ultimately selfish act of removing Peter from the alternate universe has had disastrous repercussions, endangering our world and seriously damaging theirs, in ways that he's just now beginning to realize.
Let's hope Emmy voters realize how good Noble has been in these last few episodes, portraying the mad Walter he is in on our world, and the evil one he might have become had he not gone mad — on purpose, as it turns out, to stop himself from becoming evil. Whether reveling in Walter's wackiness, revealing his pain or simply letting us see his confusion and, in his scenes with Peter, paternal pride, it's a performance that deserves more recognition than it has been given.
It was an hour filled with great twists and great attention to detail (as in the way the "red" of the alternate universe played out in everything from the credits to Peter's comic book collection). And it ended with a knife-in-the-heart cliffhanger: Just as Olivia finally tells Peter she loves him, she gets trapped in the alternate universe in really scary solitary confinement. Clearly, someone is going to have to go rescue her, which means another trip to the alternate world.
Book my ticket for next fall.
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