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You don't have to be a scientist to cringe with Fringe. Admittedly I am, but I am sure that anyone who remembers their highschool. STEM courses cringes when watching this series. It's not just the usual stuff you see in SciFi, like explosion sounds in space or something like that. It's things that are just wrong, and they could have been right if they had a science advisor. I understand that much of the crazy stuff is necessary for the plot, so no objections there. It's the stuff that did not have to be this way, that make me cringe. I mean, calling this giant, moving blob "a virus" does not offer anything to the plot - they could have called it an bacterium, and nothing would have changed. A giant bacterium is SciFi. A living, pulsating virus is just a sign that someone does not know what the word virus means. Every episode is full of such stuff, and it's not only distracting, but it is also harmful in a way, as people are exposed to wrong information. So, it's not SciFi. It's like a comic strip. And it's very entertaining, visually very successful, and with good acting. This is why, although I call it "Cringe", I watched the whole thing, and I give it an 8 out of 10. It's fun, and this is what TV is all about.
I have no idea how the other episodes are, I may attempt to watch the ones with Helen Mirren and Morgan Friedman. That's after I will have recovered from the unbearable nothingness of Episode 1. It's only 30 minutes long, and I found myself looking at the time half way through. It's a perfect example of "nothing" pretending to be "something". Pretentious , naive and, finally, annoying when you realize you have wasted 30 minutes of your life.
Just make sure you watch the full length version, in high resolution - because there are some inferior copies around.The only thing I did not like, is Olga Tschehowa's performance. She had a long and accomplished career of course, and this only is one of her earliest films - but here she is just bad, in my view. This was not acting but an exposition of a very small collection of mannerisms. I know this was a century ago, but the other actors manage to be both of their time (which has actually its own charm) and act. She is mostly a mask. Anyway, this does not distract from the charm of the film - it is atmospheric but actually quite fast, beautifully photographed, and infuses a mystery tale with a little bit of humor now and then. Very enjoyable.