TV GUIDE: Matt's TV Week in Review
Feb 11, 2011
by Matt Roush
... LOVE TRIANGLE OF THE WEEK:
Peter vs. the two Olivias on Fox's excellent Fringe, because "whichever one he chooses, it will be her universe that survives." Talk about high stakes. Emotions run deep as we meet Simon, another of Walter's tragic Cortexiphan experiments, a mind-reader living in isolation because (shades of Sookie Stackhouse) he can't stop hearing everyone's thoughts. Walter's especially could drive a person crazy. But Simon's OK around fellow lab rat Olivia, to whom he confides: "Do you know how it feels to be burdened with something that makes it impossible for you to relate to another person?" Does she ever. Poor-livia is still shaken by her doppelganger's fling with Peter. "She's like me, but better," our Olivia believes, and her insecurity is stirred when Peter brings her coffee the way Faux-livia likes it. Oops. This prompts a very moving scene in which Peter insists he was drawn to Faux-livia because, "I thought that I was bringing out a different side of you. But it was never because I wanted to be with her more. Because I don't." We're buying it — up until when Simon gets in Peter's head and slips Olivia a note: "He still has feelings for her." D-oh! She should have listened to Simon when he insisted, "No one should know exactly what someone else is thinking."
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