I'm currently researching this. Such a great show. Had stood the test of time well. Dunham and Walter are great characters. Thoroughly enjoying it, and it's been long enough that I'm watching it for the first time again 😀

Fringe said drugs were a good thing that smart people used to do smart people stuff. I approve.

Loved this show. Should rewatch it acutally, don't remember much of it.

This show didn't beat any odds. Anna Torv was related to the Fox programming director. I think she was his niece. The show was taken to EXACTLY 100 episodes to qualify it for residuals and syndication so she could be financially set. I read a whole analysis article on it from a guy who uses statistics to figure out which shows will be canceled or not and by the end of the run, he essentially wrote off the cancellation until it hit 100. The continuation never had anything to do with ratings, reception, or anything. It was nepotism, plain and simple. The show was at the bottom of Fox's ratings for all 5 seasons. It should have been canceled after season 1.

Don't get me wrong, I am happy it didn't. I loved the show and the nepotism led to steady jobs for hundreds of people for 5 years and finally allowed a really weird story to be told all the way through, but it did not get to do all of that on its own merit.

i really kind of enjoyed the first seasons.. very x-files rebooty... but the last season or so was really hard to get through

if the last season wouldnt exist this show would almost be perfect but my god, the last season was such garbage that it literally took me several attempts to even understand why they are suddenly where they are, its such a tonal whipslash too

Hands down one of my favourite sci-fi shows ever made, watched it again last year and it holds up brilliantly.