Fringe: The Complete Fifth and Final Season

Starring: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, et al.

The beloved fan-favorite series, Fringe, returns for its fifth and final season to deliver a climactic conclusion... in all worlds. Picking up from events depicted in season four's flash-forward episode, the seemingly peaceful Observers seized control of our universe in 2015. Now, in 2036, they have become ruthless rulers who stand unopposed. What awaits in the future, however, is the Fringe Team's final stand, which will bring together all they have witnessed in preparation for the final battle to protect our world. Joining Fringe scientist Water Bishop, FBI agent Olivia Dunham, Peter Bishop and the Fringe team is Olivia and Peter's now-grown daughter, Etta, in a final season filled with struggle, surprises, and sacrifice.

• Format: Blu-ray
• UPC: 883929278329
• Release Date: September 2014
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: WarnerBrothers
• Director: J.H. Wyman
• Starring: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, John Noble, Jasika Nicole, Georgina Haig
• Runtime: 9 hours, 32 minutes
• Number of Disks: 3
• Other Video Info: Multiple Formats; Blu-ray; Box set; Dolby; NTSC; Subtitled; AC-3; Widescreen
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

This can be the "Fringe" of something big.

I came to this series just looking for a time filler. I found my time filler and more. They hit the ground running and pull no punches, so it does not take long to realize if you want to watch the series or not. We start with an inexplicable and mysterious problem. The public can never know, but there may be some sort of diabolical cabal behind this problem. FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) is recruited to help track down the culprits. She is out of her depth in the science behind the problem and needs the help of an extraordinary institutionalized scientist, Dr. Walter Bishop (John N-o-b-l-e), to help decipher the problem. Unfortunately, Walter is not allowed to go out by himself, so Olivia must also recruit his son Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson), who also helps her and us interpret Walter's thoughts and fringe technology. "Fringe" uses the standard goes on forever series formula. First, there is the immediate episode problem; it either starts at the front end or gets built up very shortly, then we have our antagonist(s), usually temporary for this episode. We usually find that he has a good excuse to be a bad guy, and we can empathize, but they have to clean up the situation and live happily ever after. Laid over this is the extended series problem we get everything from vague hints to gratuitous gore. The antagonists (some likably evil) for the series sections may or may not die, can mysteriously be written to come back, and whose purposes are never totally explained, so that we must watch the rest of the series. The advantage of having a "Fringe" sci-fi theme is that when they paint themselves into a corner, the next episode just rewrites from another angle as if the corner never existed; this way, we have multiple seasons without any problem of having to tie up loose ends or lose main characters. You can buy the season separately or in different bundles. Some people worry about the cost of doing it one way or the other. The reality is how fast you are going to look at this. Are you going to have a Fringe marathon till your eyes bug out, or use it as an occasional night out? Do the times, do the cost, and do the math.