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		List Price: $69.98		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 181 Released: September 8, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: Unrated Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
Teleportation. Mind control. Invisibility. Astral projection. Mutation. Reanimation. Phenomena that exist on the Fringe of science unleash their strange powers in this thrilling series, co-created by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias), combining the grit of the police procedural with the excitement of the unknown. The story revolves around three unlikely colleagues – a beautiful young FBI agent, a brilliant scientist who’s spent the last 17 years in a mental institution and the scientist’s sardonic son – who investigate a series of bizarre deaths and disasters known as “the pattern.” Someone is using our world as an experimental lab. And all clues lead to Massive Dynamic, a shadowy global corporation that may be more powerful than any nation.

Description of Fringe: The Complete First Season (+ BD-Live) [Blu-ray]:
Teleportation, mind control, astral projection, invisibility, precognition, spontaneous combustion, reanimation: these are among the peripheral sciences--or "pseudo-sciences," as one skeptic puts it--examined during the first season of Fringe, a Fox network TV drama debuting on Blu-ray with the full first season (twenty episodes) offered on five extras-laden discs. The notion that those phenomena could have a genuine scientific basis is intriguing enough. But co-creator J.J. Abrams (whose bulging resume as a director, writer, and producer includes Lost, Alias, and the 2009 Star Trek feature film) has even more on his mind. Along with the weird science, the series features a multi-agency task force investigating related acts of terrorism that may very well add up to a threat of unimaginable global proportions; people who are exactly what they appear to be (i.e., insane) and others who are anything but; plot twists galore; family drama, interpersonal relationships, corporate evil, cop chases... There's a lot in play here, and while it doesn't always hold together (and like any new series, it takes a while to hit its stride), Fringe is rarely boring, and never less than impressively ambitious.

The pilot introduces us to the main characters, principally FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv, good but not great in the show's central role) and others on the task force brought in to investigate some gross goings-on aboard a jumbo jet (a "self-eradicating, airborne toxin" reduced everyone to blood and bones). Seems this is but one part of "The Pattern," a series of synchronous, similarly shocking events that unfold as the show progresses; in subsequent episodes, lots of people are killed in graphic fashion by all manner of horrors, including scary monsters (slugs as big as a football, teethed parasites that can crush your heart), a gas that freezes a busload of passengers "like insects trapped in amber," people so radioactive they can literally make your brain boil... it goes on. Helping Dunham and the rest of the force figure it all out are scientist Dr. Walter Bishop (an appealing John Noble), who's spent the past 17 years locked up in the loony bin and whose research may be responsible for some of the crimes we witness, and his son-babysitter Peter (Joshua Jackson). As for the "fringe" element, Dr. Bishop and other, less benign geniuses jump-start a dead man's brain, photograph another victim's cornea in order to access the last thing she saw before death, connect Dunham to her boyfriend so she can experience his memories of the incident that left him comatose, use high-frequency vibrations to enable bank robbers to pass through a solid vault wall, and much, much more. As for where and how all of this ends up, let's just that enquiring minds will have to hang in for the long, complicated run.

High-definition bonus features are many and varied; among the best are "Deciphering the Scene" (brief explications of key scenes in every episode) and "The Massive Undertaking" (detailing how certain special effects sequences were pulled off). Exclusively on Blu-ray are expert scene analysis and BD-Live writer-producer commentary. --Sam Graham

Fringe: The Complete First Season (+ BD-Live) [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Product Review
2009-12-30 - I was not a big fan of the TV series Fringe. The only reason I purchase this product was for my boyfriend. He is a huge fan of Fringe. Once I bought I decided to watch the series and it was very interesting. I actually like it and want to watch the second season. I order the item like two weeks ago before Christmas and I'm really satisfied with my purchase. My boyfriend loved it and I loved it.

Fringe
2009-12-28 - This is a well written show. At times it is gross and always weird. The actors are wonderfully cast and seem to get the most out what the writers give them. Thu not a show for everyone, but it is for scifi fans. I've enjoyed this season and hope the next will be even better.

only the best.
2009-12-28 - fringe is hard to follow on tv..but,uncut on dvd..it is another ball game..if you liked the x-files..this is the next step..this is a odd,sometime funny,even bloody show..but,when you watched the whole season..you will say..I want season two!

The New X-Files
2009-12-28 - I liked the show, but ultimately don't have much to say about it. This is essentially another X-Files series with a seemingly bigger budget and more eccentric, yet less admirable/likable principle characters. The storylines are a little more scientific than Chris Carter's conspiracy series. I don't know if the science has any reality behind it, but it's presented believably enough. And the ongoing plotlines, so far, appear to be more sophisticated than the basic "government cover-up", separating the show with at least the sense of a fresh atmosphere, even if it's really not all that fresh and doesn't have the charm of its predecessor.

Warner did a fine job on the BDs, aside from the studios apparent apathy for fan outcry asking for lossless audio. But as the sound design was intended for TV and not likely as sophisticated or as well recorded as a feature film, maybe it's not that big of a deal. I guess we'll never know.

Stick with it. It gets so much better as it goes along.
2009-12-25 - Like so many others, when I started watching this show, I thought it was kind of cool but boring. However, as I stuck with it, the story began to unfold, the characters began to develop, and it quickly became quite enthralling. There are endless possibilities with a story like this. The first season may start off slow, but if you keep watching you will become engrossed and will thoroughly enjoy the end of the season. Also, the second season starts off with quite the bang and makes you want to know what happens next. Walter Bishop is really starting to become one of my favorite characters on television right now. So, give it a chance. Unlike so many other shows, this show begins taking chances and acting in the interests of the characters and the story rather than the interests of the viewer. That makes it its own world and sets it apart from those shows that try and do nothing but appease the masses.