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Westeros is a land full of intrigue, double play, sex, war and revenge and the list goes on and on. So it was no surprise that fans worried how George R. R. Martin’s dense, dialogue-rich and character/plotline-heavy “A Song of Ice and Fire” series would translate on screen. The answer: earnestly and beautifully. In fact, AWESOMELY!

This show was all fun and games for awhile but once we got to Season 4, the Italy season, I just can’t keep my mouth shut on this one. It’s like Saved by the Bell going to college. Hello! There are no bells! It just doesn’t make sense.

Italy didn’t want them, they certainly didn’t need them, and the cast appeared to hate every moment of their highly overpaid vacation. I couldn’t tell if they were avoiding socializing with the locals or vice versa.

With each Fringe season, the storytelling and acting only get better, more fascinating, and more unique. John Noble embeds mad scientist Walter with a deep sense of pain and struggle, not only due to his professional life, but his personal life as well. Joshua Jackson is effortless as Peter, a man trying to straddle a life strongly tied to two separate universes, and Anna Torv plays about a million Olivias, and I notice the infinitesimal differences.

There are systematic shows, and there are innovative shows, and Fringe is the latter, pushing viewers to think outside the box, while always showing them a good time.

Where did this Reading Rainbow network come from, bringing us Masterpieces like Sherlock, and now Downton Abbey? Set in the unsettling early 1900s, since never has the aristocracy and their servants with their romance issues and financial problems been so interesting, mysterious, dramatic and funny.