Why Fringe is one of the best shows ever made

After creating Alias and Lost, producer J.J. Abrams returned to television to co-create the sci-fi series Fringe, an X-Files -inspired show featuring gnarly body-horror, great monsters of the week, and an overarching plot involving multiple universes. The show, which premiered in 2008 and ran for five seasons, is the perfect binge-watch thanks to its episodic structure, great characters, and a science-fiction premise that gets wilder and wilder as it goes, becoming more serialized.