With this week's episode of Fringe entitled 'The Arrival', I believe Fringe has turned a corner. The first three episodes of the show were more in the Monster Of The Week format that diehard fans of The X-Files take such pride in, but this one seemed, well, different. I said to myself about halfway through the episode that I believed we were about to learn something very big, and in part, I was right. As was expected, there was no real huge payoff to be found within its sixty-minute running time (after all, it's still an Abrams show), but being that JJ co-wrote the episode himself, I wasn't exactly shocked to see 'The Arrival' dole out a few more layers of what will inevitably be its master plan for at least the rest of the season. What exactly happened between Peter and Walter that forced them apart? What about The Pattern? Is it manmade, or something else completely? Why is the seemingly undead character of John Scott starting to play such a large role? Well, that's a lot of whys and whats that might not get answered for who knows how long, but for now, let's check out 'The Arrival'. More Fringe after the jump...

Well, hey! what do you know? Tonight's psychic artist guy wasn't really much of a ripoff of that emo dork on the first season of Heroes, after all. In fact, I think tonight's episode of Fringe was probably the best of the three we've seen so far. The pilot was a strong start to a rather quirky premise, the second episode faltered a bit in establishing the characters and any real sense of originality that this show will absolutely need to survive, but this third episode, 'The Ghost Network' really seemed to at least want to make a name for itself. Characters were expanded, backstories were at least somewhat delved into, and most importantly, the cutie-pie geek girl lab assistant with the even cuter name of Astrid Farnsworth was given a bit more to do than just stand around acting surprised. Anyway, let's brew up some LSD and dive right into the thing. More Fringe after the jump...

Welcome back, Fringers! Boy, we really need a better nickname as fans of this show, don't we? The second episode of JJ Abrams' new genetically-enhanced baby aired last night, and while it wasn't exactly earth-shattering in originality, it more than made up for it in cool-ass imagery and some truly geeky Dr. Frankenstein-style moments. Jules Verne! Psycho serial killers that need to eat parts of their victims to survive! Eyeballs being pulled out of heads in the name of science! Cool. Once again, I'll try to keep my Abrams fanboy geekery to a dull roar this time around, but I'm already anticipating failing miserably. On with the show. More Fringe after the jump...

Wait! What's this? A new sci-fi show on FOX that's being helmed by 'Lost' creator JJ Abrams and the two dudes who wrote 'Transformers'? Gosh, I hadn't heard anything about it, if you don't count the 47,000 ads about it that have been plastered virtually everywhere for the past year or so. My fragile little mind is blown. Well, it's called 'Fringe', and if you haven't heard about it by now, would you allow me the honors of lifting that rock up off of your tender little head? Don't worry - sunshine is good for you. Kinda. In any case, there's more 'Fringe' after the jump.