Fringe season 4

22 episodes · 2011

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The fourth season of the American science fiction television series Fringe premiered on Fox on September 23, 2011 and concluded on May 11, 2012, consisting of 22 episodes. The series is produced by Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. The show was officially renewed for a fourth season on March 24, 2011.

how it went

Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

Read from 119 comments — 57 said when · across 10 episodes.

📈 rising arc — Builds the whole way through. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. In the last stretch it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

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📈 rising arc — builds the whole way through

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“I loved the Blade Runner homage at the beginning: scrolling text, certain words bolded and in red, describing a dystopian future, establishing the names of different groups ("Natives"/"Loyalists" vs. "Replicants"/"Blade Runner Units")”
AngrySpock▲ 100about 0–15% inread it ↗
“when he anti-matter'd Massive Dynamic and didn't even turn back to look, all I could think was "YYYYYYEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH"”
AngrySpock▲ 100about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I audibly screeched when I saw Alex get shot.”
▲ 97about 75–100% inread it ↗
“That was one of the best hours of television I've seen in a long time.”
geltoid▲ 54about 0–100% inread it ↗

episodes

7 of 22 with a score

Every episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.

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