5.08 "The Human Kind" TV REVIEW

IF YOU'RE YET TO SEE THE EPISODE, STOP READING NOW! SPOILERS LIE AHEAD

Episode 5.08
Writer: Alison Schapker
Director: Dennis Smith

WHAT'S IN A NAME Walter's name for Astrid this week is Esther.

GOTCHA! If you're going to caꦰtch out a heartless, evil, emotionless bastard from the future, with super intelligence and the ab🍸ility to "see" time, you might as well let him know you've beaten him. Peter one, Windmark nil...

NITPICK How does a bog standard video camera (see below) create a 3D holographic image? It's not about th😼e projection tech – we're more worried about how a single l🌞ens can create a stereoscopic picture.

NITPICK 2 Even with his new Observer reflexes, it's surely a ꧙bit of a stretch that Peter would be able to do intric🌺ate surgery on himself to remove the implant at the back of his neck without doing himself a mischief.

IT'S WOTSSERNAME Jill Scott, who plays Simone, is a successful, Grammy-winnning singer. As an actress, she played the lead role in the BBC's adaptation of The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency .

SPECULATION It appears ﷽that Simone ha🤪s sixth sense-like special abilities. Could she be the offspring of one of the Cortexiphan trialists?

BEST LINE

Olivia: "I've seen the seams between universes ripped apart, things that humans shouldn't see. You people make up explanations, assign meaning to things without knowing, because it's reassuring, it's comforting. But I can't do that, because I know too much. It's all just numbers, aꦅnd the Invaders as you call them, they're just better at math than we are. Thank you 𝐆for the magnet."

Richard Edwards

Fringe airs on Sky1 in the UK on Wednesday nights at 10pm, and on Fox in the US on Friday nights.