Fringe
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Action/Adventure
Started: 9th September 2008
Episodes: 65
Country: United States of America, Canada
Created by: J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
Starring: Blair Brown, John Noble, Kirk Acevedo, Anna Torv, Mark Valley, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Jasika Nicole, Leonard Nimoy, Jared Harris, Ari Graynor, Michael Cerveris, Chance Kelly, Michael Gaston, Diane Kruger, Deborah Ann Woll, Seth Gabel
Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. It premiered on the Fox network on September 9, 2008. The series follows Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson), and Walter Bishop (John Noble), members of a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security. The team uses "fringe" science and FBI investigative techniques to investigate a series of unexplained, often ghastly occurrences, which are related to mysteries surrounding a parallel universe. The series has been described as a hybrid of The X-Files, Altered States and The Twilight Zone.
The series' format combines elements from procedural dramas as well as those found in serials. The series began as a more traditional "mystery of the week" series, and became more serialized in later seasons. A majority of episodes contain a standalone plot, with several episodes also exploring the series' overarching mythology.
Early critical reception of the first season was lukewarm, but became more of a critic favorite in subsequent seasons when the series began to explore its
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