Rising Shows
Launch app →
Fringe poster

Fringe (2008)

Drama · Mystery · Sci-Fi

FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.

IMDb rating
8.4 (272,914 votes)
Episode average
8.2 -0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons
5
Streaming (US)
Hulu
Language
EN
Type
TV series

Big finale trajectory: the final season is the peak. Rising Shows ranks whole shows by the shape of their rating trend rather than one average score, which is how you find a show that got better rather than a show that started well. See every Big finale show in the explorer →

Browse all Big finale shows in the explorer → Open in Rising Shows app → View on IMDb

Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 5 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2008)

8.02 avg 20 episodes 8.1 → 9.1 56 min avg

Ep 1: 8.1 · 5,556 votesEp 2: 7.6 · 3,990 votesEp 3: 7.7 · 3,601 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 3,536 votesEp 5: 7.4 · 3,219 votesEp 6: 7.6 · 3,093 votesEp 7: 7.9 · 3,112 votesEp 8: 7.8 · 3,001 votesEp 9: 7.8 · 2,878 votesEp 10: 8.5 · 2,999 votesEp 11: 8.3 · 2,912 votesEp 12: 7.4 · 2,828 votesEp 13: 8.1 · 2,839 votesEp 14: 8.6 · 2,961 votesEp 15: 8.1 · 2,967 votesEp 16: 7.5 · 2,802 votesEp 17: 8.4 · 2,897 votesEp 18: 7.8 · 2,712 votesEp 19: 8.6 · 2,848 votesEp 20: 9.1 · 3,462 votes
Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Pilot8.15,556
2The Same Old Story7.63,990
3The Ghost Network7.73,601
4The Arrival8.13,536
5Power Hungry7.43,219
6The Cure7.63,093
7In Which We Meet Mr. Jones7.93,112
8The Equation7.83,001
9The Dreamscape7.82,878
10Safe8.52,999
11Bound8.32,912
12The No-Brainer7.42,828
13The Transformation8.12,839
14Ability8.62,961
15Inner Child8.12,967
16Unleashed7.52,802
17Bad Dreams8.42,897
18Midnight7.82,712
19The Road Not Taken8.62,848
20There's More Than One of Everything9.13,462

Season 2 (2009)

8.20 avg 23 episodes 8.4 → 9.2 44 min avg

Ep 1: 8.4 · 3,047 votesEp 2: 7.6 · 2,592 votesEp 3: 7.8 · 2,525 votesEp 4: 8.6 · 2,707 votesEp 5: 7.6 · 2,462 votesEp 6: 7.6 · 2,466 votesEp 7: 7.8 · 2,450 votesEp 8: 8.8 · 2,875 votesEp 9: 7.7 · 2,416 votesEp 10: 8.7 · 2,626 votesEp 11: 7.0 · 2,571 votesEp 12: 7.6 · 2,476 votesEp 13: 8.1 · 2,524 votesEp 14: 8.1 · 2,504 votesEp 15: 8.9 · 2,972 votesEp 16: 9.4 · 4,406 votesEp 17: 8.0 · 2,445 votesEp 18: 9.2 · 4,121 votesEp 19: 8.6 · 2,528 votesEp 20: 6.8 · 3,407 votesEp 21: 8.3 · 2,569 votesEp 22: 8.9 · 2,812 votesEp 23: 9.2 · 3,115 votes
Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1A New Day in the Old Town8.43,047
2Night of Desirable Objects7.62,592
3Fracture7.82,525
4Momentum Deferred8.62,707
5Dream Logic7.62,462
6Earthling7.62,466
7Of Human Action7.82,450
8August8.82,875
9Snakehead7.72,416
10Grey Matters8.72,626
11Unearthed7.02,571
12Johari Window7.62,476
13What Lies Below8.12,524
14The Bishop Revival8.12,504
15Jacksonville8.92,972
16Peter9.44,406
17Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver8.02,445
18White Tulip9.24,121
19The Man from the Other Side8.62,528
20Brown Betty6.83,407
21Northwest Passage8.32,569
22Over There: Part 18.92,812
23Over There: Part 29.23,115

Season 3 (2010)

8.30 avg 22 episodes 8.6 → 9.0 49 min avg

Ep 1: 8.6 · 2,669 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 2,325 votesEp 3: 8.5 · 2,518 votesEp 4: 8.3 · 2,324 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 2,347 votesEp 6: 8.1 · 2,287 votesEp 7: 8.6 · 2,332 votesEp 8: 9.0 · 2,604 votesEp 9: 8.1 · 2,370 votesEp 10: 8.4 · 2,348 votesEp 11: 7.9 · 2,155 votesEp 12: 8.0 · 2,193 votesEp 13: 7.8 · 2,211 votesEp 14: 8.2 · 2,307 votesEp 15: 8.4 · 2,441 votesEp 16: 8.0 · 2,222 votesEp 17: 7.9 · 2,249 votesEp 18: 8.1 · 2,203 votesEp 19: 8.6 · 2,793 votesEp 20: 8.3 · 2,139 votesEp 21: 8.7 · 2,268 votesEp 22: 9.0 · 2,939 votes
Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Olivia8.62,669
2The Box8.02,325
3The Plateau8.52,518
4Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?8.32,324
5Amber 314228.12,347
66955 kHz8.12,287
7The Abducted8.62,332
8Entrada9.02,604
9Marionette8.12,370
10The Firefly8.42,348
11Reciprocity7.92,155
12Concentrate and Ask Again8.02,193
13Immortality7.82,211
146B8.22,307
15Subject 138.42,441
16Os8.02,222
17Stowaway7.92,249
18Bloodline8.12,203
19Lysergic Acid Diethylamide8.62,793
206:02 AM EST8.32,139
21The Last Sam Weiss8.72,268
22The Day We Died9.02,939

Season 4 (2011)

8.21 avg 22 episodes 7.9 → 8.7 44 min avg

Ep 1: 7.9 · 2,589 votesEp 2: 8.1 · 2,241 votesEp 3: 7.7 · 2,106 votesEp 4: 8.1 · 2,231 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 2,161 votesEp 6: 8.6 · 2,349 votesEp 7: 7.6 · 2,038 votesEp 8: 8.5 · 2,222 votesEp 9: 8.5 · 2,177 votesEp 10: 7.9 · 2,140 votesEp 11: 8.1 · 2,130 votesEp 12: 8.6 · 2,386 votesEp 13: 8.0 · 2,106 votesEp 14: 8.7 · 2,282 votesEp 15: 8.0 · 2,328 votesEp 16: 7.8 · 2,051 votesEp 17: 8.1 · 2,037 votesEp 18: 8.0 · 1,964 votesEp 19: 8.9 · 3,197 votesEp 20: 8.5 · 2,128 votesEp 21: 8.4 · 2,177 votesEp 22: 8.7 · 2,383 votes
Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Neither Here Nor There7.92,589
2One Night in October8.12,241
3Alone in the World7.72,106
4Subject 98.12,231
5Novation8.02,161
6And Those We've Left Behind8.62,349
7Wallflower7.62,038
8Back to Where You've Never Been8.52,222
9Enemy of My Enemy8.52,177
10Forced Perspective7.92,140
11Making Angels8.12,130
12Welcome to Westfield8.62,386
13A Better Human Being8.02,106
14The End of All Things8.72,282
15A Short Story About Love8.02,328
16Nothing As It Seems7.82,051
17Everything in Its Right Place8.12,037
18The Consultant8.01,964
19Letters of Transit8.93,197
20Worlds Apart8.52,128
21Brave New World: Part 18.42,177
22Brave New World: Part 28.72,383

Season 5 (2012)

8.45 avg 13 episodes 8.1 → 9.3 42 min avg

Ep 1: 8.1 · 2,460 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 1,980 votesEp 3: 7.7 · 2,033 votesEp 4: 8.6 · 2,239 votesEp 5: 8.3 · 2,017 votesEp 6: 8.6 · 2,071 votesEp 7: 8.4 · 1,975 votesEp 8: 8.2 · 1,985 votesEp 9: 8.2 · 2,063 votesEp 10: 8.9 · 2,191 votesEp 11: 8.6 · 2,041 votesEp 12: 8.9 · 2,257 votesEp 13: 9.3 · 4,125 votes
Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Transilience Thought Unifier Model-118.12,460
2In Absentia8.01,980
3The Recordist7.72,033
4The Bullet That Saved the World8.62,239
5An Origin Story8.32,017
6Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There8.62,071
7Five-Twenty-Ten8.41,975
8The Human Kind8.21,985
9Black Blotter8.22,063
10Anomaly XB-67837468.92,191
11The Boy Must Live8.62,041
12Liberty8.92,257
13An Enemy of Fate9.34,125
Breaking Bad poster
Breaking Bad (2008) Big finale
Stranger Things poster
Stranger Things (2016) Bad finale
The Walking Dead poster
The Walking Dead (2010) Front-loaded
Friends poster
Friends (1994) Consistent

See all Big finale shows →

Episode ratings and vote counts from IMDb. Poster, overview, and streaming data from TMDB. Data refreshed 2026-10-03.

Want to discover more shows by their rating shape? Browse Rising Shows →