Fringe: Episode Three (2008)

This show, like me, is awesome. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, it's the cast and stellar writing that really makes it.

John Noble f^ckin' brilliant--even as a whacked out scientist. Joshua Jackson is the crisp smart-ass foil to Anna Torv's Agent Dunham.

Episode Three is perhaps a little over the top, but still it was riveting. I'm assured that Massive Dynamic is pure evil--that red-head chick--evil, evil. But that's almost too obvious a choice. From the moment she peeled off her skin {like a glove, no less} to expose a robotic skeleton, I was hooked.

Ep3 had a psychic phenomenon, ie., another failed experiment {or is it} of Dr. Bishop's. This guy is predicting tragic world events before they happen. Come to find out, Dr. Bishop's work was continued after his incarceration and the guy is actually a 'receiver' for communication between a terrorist cell.

They almost explode the guy putting him into an MRI only to just discover his blood is loaded with iridium--just before... The story clears up a little too quickly {at least for the patient}. The exchange between mysterious black dude and evil red-haired lady was very interesting.

Fringe is top-notch storytelling. There is still a tendency to weave all too many subplots, but fortunately, Abrams seems to be focusing on Pattern and the Bishop's father/son relationship. Three eps in and I'll definitely be back for more.