It's not even good for that. It's predictable and boring. Focuses on family drama instead of adventure, as was advertised. They try to tease the mythology before you even care about any of it. "You'll see." No, I won't.

The end of this episode has me worried for future episodes, I have to say. In fact, the entire sequence after Carrie's (I imagine, for her potential, very small) breakdown was too much of a eureka moment mixed with recapping the episode and the entire Lynne subplot…

You are so wrong…
Anna Torv is playing yet another version of her character, which once again is different, if not as much as Ourlivia/Theirlivia was (obviously). Sometimes I thought she resembled old Theirlivia, but not quite. (Ok, maybe that's because she did scenes for both of them and forgot to switch.) 
But by and…

Yes, that definitely explains why all her other children have illnesses.
I think her first born was one of the gay couple. "Lost him to other things"
Although she might just be talking about The House with that "other thing(s)". Or the maid. But I think the maid had an affair with her husband, not her son.

I think one of the gay couple was her "good son". She lost him to "other things", she said. So, that might be The Gimp or that's the other one of them.

"Great episode tonight.  This show is clearly the best thing on Sundays now that Breaking Bad is over."
Wow, don't get wild with your praise, here…the ENTIRE Sunday?
Seriously, I'd say this is easily the best new show, on any given day. And for the time being probably also the best running show, all considered.

Attractiveness, same for me. Personality, switch Frenchy and Ricci. I guess I really like Frenchy…
And even if I didn't, Frenchy is the only one who doesn't get to say the dumbest shit and Ricci is far ahead in that department.

@avclub-977cf54e52109b5b2795406737cf36d4:disqus Right, there was amber. The disintegration was still going on, because Walter crossed over. It wouldn't make sense if that didn't happen.

Yes. Some kind of wizard, anyway.

"Week 2, there was amber."
Not sure if you are replying directly to me. If you do, can you explain what you mean by that?

Because her hair turned white in an instant? That is rather strange, don't you think? Plus, she must have heard about the house, like everyone else.

That's just Osiris' jurisdiction. The sociopaths are handled by another diety, which we possibly have met, already. I don't remember.

I also don't fully understand why we needed this episode, now. I agree with Lola, those are good reasons, but then why give us this episode instead of anything else?

It was "necessary" to have a couple episodes with duality about the freak-of-the-week and Peter vs Walter or Peter vs Olivia and now apparently Olivia vs Walter.
While I get bored of those mirror plots, because they are always pretty obvious, this show is so consistently well-acted these days, I don't really mind.

Are we watching different shows? I don't mean that in a condescending way…I am just not sure, I have my Fringe history straight, any more. Easily get confused with a lot of details, but…

Season 1 didn't happen here. Almost none of it. Olivia fled the trials. The war between the universes…never happened. There is no need for Olivia to have any abilities, I guess. She wasn't subjected to Cortexiphan long enough. But I barely remember how half of it connects, to be very honest.

They do? (never mind, just saw the comment underneath this one, haha) Then I have missed a vital piece of information…
I tend to skip the previously, because most of the time it's cut together with elements that will be important for the episode, therefore perhaps spoiling it. But I guess there is no excuse for missing…

Which is revealed by the end of the pilot. 
Something that came as a relief to me back then, because going into it, that was the only thought I had, if they were that predictable and turned this into a twist for a couple of episodes.

Why do you think they show all those flashbacks of Siobhan being emotional over Bridget, if she tries to have her killed?
I'd rather suspect Jaime Murray's character. She has some kind of agenda and was so far only seen a couple times, that's usually a sign that she is becoming more important down the road.

"The show also suffers from making all of the female characters—literally, all of them—seem like vindictive shrews, whether they have reason to be or not."
That's such nonsense…because as McDermott ponders, everybody is crazy on this show.