Summary
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.
Good for
- Friends night
- Teens
- Binge-friendly
Skip it if
- You want fast pacing
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Audiences like it more than critics (+13)
Critics 72Audiences 85GoodWatch 78
Reach
Streams in 13 countries, rent or buy in 104 more
+3
First aired
2008
September 9, 2008
Ended 2013
Genres
Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaMysteryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
Writers Guild of America Awards2009
- Television: New Series2009Nominated
Rated
- TV-14United States
Not for young kids: it's rated TV-14 in the United States for violence and strong language, and the viewing guide lists it for teens and adults.
What's in it
- ViolenceModerate
- Gore, disturbing imagesMild
- Frightening scenesMild
- Sex, nudityLittle or none
- Dark themesModerate
- Strong languageNamed in the advisories
In white: what the content advisories name. Levels from the title analysis.
Viewing guide
AdultsFriends NightPartner WatchPublic Viewing SafeSolo WatchTeensBinge-FriendlyThought-ProvokingNot listed for kids or family movie night.
1,144 people
Anna TorvOlivia Dunham100 episodes
Joshua JacksonPeter Bishop100 episodes
Jasika NicoleAstrid Farnsworth100 episodes
John NobleWalter Bishop100 episodes
Lance ReddickPhillip Broyles90 episodes
Blair BrownNina Sharp90 episodes
Leonard NimoyDr. William Bell87 episodes
Seth GabelLincoln Lee34 episodes
Kirk AcevedoCharlie Francis32 episodes
Mark ValleyJohn Scott20 episodes
Ryan McDonaldBrandon Fayette20 episodes
Michael CerverisThe Observer / September20 episodes
Lily PilbladElla11 episodes
Michael KopsaCaptain Windmark11 episodes
Ari GraynorRachel10 episodes
Jared HarrisDavid Robert Jones9 episodes
Eugene LipinskiDecember9 episodes
Shaun SmythAnil7 episodes
Kevin CorriganSam Weiss7 episodes
Sebastian RochéThomas Jerome Newton6 episodes
Georgina HaigHenrietta Bishop6 episodes
Rowan LongworthMichael6 episodes
Jarod JosephAgent Tim6 episodes
Chance KellyMitchell Loeb5 episodes
Directing · 30
- Brad Anderson Director
- Frederick E. O. Toye Director
- Jeannot Szwarc Director
- Charles Beeson Director
- David Straiton Director
- Jeffrey G. Hunt Director
Writing · 28
- J. H. Wyman Writer, Story, Teleplay, Director
- Akiva Goldsman Writer, Story, Director
- Graham Roland Writer, Story
- Josh Singer Writer, Teleplay, Story
- Alison Schapker Writer, Teleplay
- J.R. Orci Writer, Teleplay, Story
Production · 11
- J.J. Abrams Producer, Writer, Creator
- Alex Kurtzman Producer, Writer, Creator
- Roberto Orci Producer, Writer, Creator
- Joe Chappelle Producer, Director
- Alex Graves Producer, Director
- Jeff Pinkner Producer, Writer, Teleplay, Story
Camera · 9
- David Moxness Director of Photography, Director
- Thomas Yatsko Director of Photography, Director
- David Geddes Director of Photography
- Michael Wale Director of Photography
- Gregory Middleton Director of Photography
- Fred Murphy Director of Photography
Editing · 12
- Jon Dudkowski Editor
- Luyen Vu Editor
- Timothy A. Good Editor
- Scott Vickrey Editor
- Tanya Swerling Editor
- Henk van Eeghen Editor
Other crew · 3
- Rick Pearce Stunt Coordinator
- Michael Wray Production Manager
- Stephanie Stokes Stunts
Tropes
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5 seasons · 100 episodes
Episodes
- S1 E1 Pilot, 8.1
- S1 E2 The Same Old Story, 7.6
- S1 E3 The Ghost Network, 7.7
- S1 E4 The Arrival, 8.1
- S1 E5 Power Hungry, 7.4
- S1 E6 The Cure, 7.6
- S1 E7 In Which We Meet Mr. Jones, 7.9
- S1 E8 The Equation, 7.8
- S1 E9 The Dreamscape, 7.8
- S1 E10 Safe, 8.5
- S1 E11 Bound, 8.3
- S1 E12 The No-Brainer, 7.4
- S1 E13 The Transformation, 8.1
- S1 E14 Ability, 8.6
- S1 E15 Inner Child, 8.1
- S1 E16 Unleashed, 7.5
- S1 E17 Bad Dreams, 8.4
- S1 E18 Midnight, 7.8
- S1 E19 The Road Not Taken, 8.6
- S1 E20 There's More Than One of Everything, 9.1
- S2 E1 A New Day in the Old Town, 8.4
- S2 E2 Night of Desirable Objects, 7.6
- S2 E3 Fracture, 7.8
- S2 E4 Momentum Deferred, 8.6
- S2 E5 Dream Logic, 7.6
- S2 E6 Earthling, 7.6
- S2 E7 Of Human Action, 7.8
- S2 E8 August, 8.8
- S2 E9 Snakehead, 7.7
- S2 E10 Grey Matters, 8.7
- S2 E11 Unearthed, 7.0
- S2 E12 Johari Window, 7.6
- S2 E13 What Lies Below, 8.1
- S2 E14 The Bishop Revival, 8.1
- S2 E15 Jacksonville, 8.9
- S2 E16 Peter, 9.4
- S2 E17 Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver, 8.0
- S2 E18 White Tulip, 9.2
- S2 E19 The Man from the Other Side, 8.6
- S2 E20 Brown Betty, 6.8
- S2 E21 Northwest Passage, 8.3
- S2 E22 Over There: Part 1, 8.9
- S2 E23 Over There: Part 2, 9.2
- S3 E1 Olivia, 8.6
- S3 E2 The Box, 8.0
- S3 E3 The Plateau, 8.5
- S3 E4 Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?, 8.3
- S3 E5 Amber 31422, 8.1
- S3 E6 6955 kHz, 8.1
- S3 E7 The Abducted, 8.6
- S3 E8 Entrada, 9.0
- S3 E9 Marionette, 8.1
- S3 E10 The Firefly, 8.4
- S3 E11 Reciprocity, 7.9
- S3 E12 Concentrate and Ask Again, 8.0
- S3 E13 Immortality, 7.8
- S3 E14 6B, 8.2
- S3 E15 Subject 13, 8.4
- S3 E16 Os, 8.0
- S3 E17 Stowaway, 7.9
- S3 E18 Bloodline, 8.1
- S3 E19 Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, 8.6
- S3 E20 6:02 AM EST, 8.3
- S3 E21 The Last Sam Weiss, 8.7
- S3 E22 The Day We Died, 9.0
- S4 E1 Neither Here Nor There, 7.9
- S4 E2 One Night in October, 8.1
- S4 E3 Alone in the World, 7.7
- S4 E4 Subject 9, 8.1
- S4 E5 Novation, 8.0
- S4 E6 And Those We've Left Behind, 8.6
- S4 E7 Wallflower, 7.6
- S4 E8 Back to Where You've Never Been, 8.5
- S4 E9 Enemy of My Enemy, 8.5
- S4 E10 Forced Perspective, 7.9
- S4 E11 Making Angels, 8.1
- S4 E12 Welcome to Westfield, 8.6
- S4 E13 A Better Human Being, 8.0
- S4 E14 The End of All Things, 8.7
- S4 E15 A Short Story About Love, 8.0
- S4 E16 Nothing As It Seems, 7.8
- S4 E17 Everything in Its Right Place, 8.1
- S4 E18 The Consultant, 8.0
- S4 E19 Letters of Transit, 8.9
- S4 E20 Worlds Apart, 8.5
- S4 E21 Brave New World: Part 1, 8.4
- S4 E22 Brave New World: Part 2, 8.7
- S5 E1 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11, 8.1
- S5 E2 In Absentia, 8.0
- S5 E3 The Recordist, 7.7
- S5 E4 The Bullet That Saved the World, 8.6
- S5 E5 An Origin Story, 8.3
- S5 E6 Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There, 8.6
- S5 E7 Five-Twenty-Ten, 8.4
- S5 E8 The Human Kind, 8.2
- S5 E9 Black Blotter, 8.2
- S5 E10 Anomaly XB-6783746, 8.9
- S5 E11 The Boy Must Live, 8.6
- S5 E12 Liberty, 8.9
- S5 E13 An Enemy of Fate, 9.3
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