Television Breakdown: Hearts So Red

This week covering: Fringe, The Chicago Code, Glee, How I Met Your Mother

Fringe: Immortality

I'm going to go ahead and call this Fringe's Valentine's Day episode, because it surprisingly dealt with romance in the foreground. Of course this still is an episode focusing on a case of extinct insects burrowing their way out of their victims before dying shortly afterwords. I'm with Charlie on this one. Those bugs really grossed me the hell out, and I'm glad Fringe hasn't forgotten how to do that. At the base of it, this episode was about the fallout in the alternate universe, much like Marionette was the fallout in our universe. Things don't go as expected, and they go wrong in the most perfect way imaginable.

As mentioned before, this works as a wonderful Valentine's Day episode for the show that edges on the horror genre occasionally. Charlie has a sweet and awkward little moment with the girl who apparently treated his outbreak of arachnids. That borders on one of the most unbearably funny moments of this series, right up there with Vagenda. I hope that she comes back into the fold later on. Another nice and awkward romantic moment came when Walternate was getting cozy and intimate with his Asian mistress. It was kind of funny to tell you the truth, because I got our Walter in my head for a moment. I would've been balling on the floor laughing if that actually happened to our Walter.

All joking aside, we saw the human side of Walternate this week, as he refused to cross the line and experiment on children, mostly due to his past with Peter. We caught him opening up to his mistress about his regrets in letting Peter return home, and it was a bit sad to tell you the truth, and it makes sense that a great politician like him would have a mistress he could open up to. My question now is what is going on with him and his wife? I need an answer on that one. Don't take my musings to mean that I'm suddenly backing the other side. Take it as what you should, which is the writers making the emotionally dividing show they always intended.