"Fringe"

I finally reached the ending of "Fringe." Aside from some too long longing looks between each other while under fire and in critical need of moving fast, I was generally satisfied with how they ended the series. I was especially happy with how Nina Sharp showed her metal, how the Fringe heroes used their stored up tricks from villains to rescue Phillip, and the transcendence of the emotion v reason argument.

I think the acting skills of the characters had shown up the most during the season focused on the parallel universe as the actors had to portray different versions of themselves and even react to each other. The episode where the two Astrids meet was especially touching.

Over all, I feel like this built and improved upon "The X-Files" even if the producers didn't quite have the same knack for atmosphere. But maybe that's not important; on a sliding scale between horror and sci fi, "X-Files" was more on the horror side and "Fringe" more on the Sci fi side, so a different atmosphere makes sense, even if many of the episodes seem to have been filmed in the same part of Canada.  I guess the biggest difference is that "Fringe" knew what it was and "X-Files" never quite made up their mind.