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It has all of the names & 0 story telling. Every character is superficial and I can't tell whether it's the writing, directing or both, but I just don't think the actors are even given a chance to actually act. There is 0 character development so you don't understand or care about them. It's a sentence with no adjectives. It gives no reason for the behavior of the characters and you feel nothing from them. The story isn't compelling, there is no "action" or "drama". I honestly don't know what the point of several scenes were, I don't feel like there was a point to even having some of the characters it had -like we didn't need Bruce Wilis (bro, why did you even bother with a 2nd scene), MGK (I felt like a 2nd scene with him was literally for contracting the star) or the killers wife, the cops wife. Megan Fox just isn't buyable in her role. If you know nothing about homicide detectives you may be able to escape how it's portrayed. This film is here to fleece you of your money and time. Shame on whoever produced this; I've read more compelling stories from 5th graders. I can't believe the 5-star reviews are anything but marketing bots, idiots that just wanted to stare at the actors, or just those with no taste.

I wanted to write this review for those out there like myself who've had a magnetic appeal towards the series but have had a few failure-to-launch experiences. When X-Files ended it left a hole in my achy-breaky-heart (never to be filled) but 6 yrs will make a girl pretty thirsty so ads for Fringe made me salivate for the tales of mysterious adventure. Alas, my schedule was quite packed and I just never seemed to keep up. I've probably tried to watch s1 on 3-4 occasions all to the same end. I recently decided to give it one more go and man I could kick myself for not getting here sooner. Firstly let me say the acting of Lance Reddick (Broyles), Joshua Jackson (Peter), and John Noble (Walter) are simply brilliant; if they didn't make for such perfectly lovable characters their acting is so genuinely believable it could very well be the anchor that allows the complex, universe- hopping plot to be easily followed. That and Leonard Nimoy! -what more is to be said?

Aside from being compelling on the basis of it's subject the stories feel freshly nostalgic of others in its class such as the Twilight Zone, Sliders, Buffy, X-Files, or Roswell. Where the others do not give an honest attempt to explain their universe's oddities Fringe beautifully weaves it's case-of- the-week episodes into its central dogma, not unlike many in its class and regurgitates it back to the audience with perhaps a more sincere hope to aid in navigating the IRL blurry line between science & faith. I feel that if you have a scientist's heart this is perhaps the greatest beauty. If you understand the world around you best through science & are invigorated by that which defies the rules of your abilities that then watch this, you may hear your own thoughts come alive when watching and that in my opinion is the hallmark of a great series. Good luck & I hope you feel the same.

Angry about poorly run Homeowner Associations (HOAs) whose management of funds are careless & wasteful. Their administration slowly eating away your freedoms as citizens — too much of Big Brother watching over us. Ever get notice, after notice about grass in the cracks of your driveway & wanted to scream, well in Arcadia you'll be dying.

In this Monster-of-the-Week episode you will instantly feel acquainted with The Association-esque tone --if a Bentley Little fan. Mulder & Scully move-in to the little 'burb undercover to investigate several disappearances at the idyllic planned community. To Mulder's amusement the tenants follow every extraneous order strictly, so he begins to defiantly protest as they scatter to correct it for him. Their fear is what one may call a tulpa; the concept of a being or object which is created through sheer discipline alone, come to enact some neighborly love one might expect from a starving cannibalistic tribe. Like most HOAs (or Frankensteinian Monsters for that matter) which fail as a result of the people involved, the tulpa eventually turns on it's creator.