As of July 2026, Fringe Season 2 aired in 2009 with 23 episodes — streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Fringe Season 2

2009 23 Episodes Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama ⭐ 8/10

Right now you can watch Fringe Season 2 on and — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. Its 8/10 TMDB score, built from 2,833 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Anna Torv leads a cast that never lets the concept overwhelm the characters. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

There is a reason Fringe Season 2 keeps coming up in conversation. The world-building is meticulous, but it is the characters who carry Fringe Season 2 through its more ambitious moments. Unable to police a world in which science has advanced beyond our wildest dreams — and nightmares — FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham seeks help from brilliant but damaged scientist Dr. Walter Bishop and his estranged son with a dark past, Peter. Under the direction of Agent Phillip Broyles, they solve gruesome mysteries and prevent imminent attacks. Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2009. What separates Fringe Season 2 from lesser genre entertainment is a willingness to let the concept cost the characters something. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Fringe Season 2 is satisfying on multiple levels — something to watch and something to think about after. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Watch for Anna Torv in particular — the performance elevates the material. Satisfying on multiple levels.

📡 Where to Watch Fringe Season 2

🇦🇺 Australia

Amazon Prime Video

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🇺🇸 United States

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

HBO Max Amazon Channel

🇨🇦 Canada

Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video with Ads

🇳🇿 New Zealand

Amazon Prime Video

🎬 Fringe Season 2 — Episode Guide

A New Day in the Old Town

An amnesiac Olivia makes her return from the parallel universe, while Walter, Pete, and Junior Agent Amy Jessup investigate the mysterious death of a man found with puncture holes in his palate. Meanwhile, Broyles defends the Fringe Division from a Senate subcommittee threatening to shut the organiz...

Night of Desirable Objects

A highway construction worker is the seventh in a series of mysterious disappearances in Lansdale, PA. The team come to investigate and finds traces of a mysterious paralytic. Meanwhile, Walter tries to send frogs to an alternate reality and Olivia realizes her recent trip has altered her in ways sh...

When an American officer who served in Iraq blows up in a Philadelphia train station, the Fringe Division investigates and determines that something turned the man into a living bomb. Peter and Olivia travel to Iraq to determine if Peter's contacts can shed some light on the situation.

Momentum Deferred

Olivia begins to regain her memories of her encounter with William Bell. Meanwhile, the "First Wave" tries to collect the head of their leader, and the traitor makes his move.

A man in Seattle goes berserk, attacking his boss and claiming his victim is a demon. After the killer dies of what appears to be exhaustion, the Fringe Division discover it's only the first in a series of killings where the persons initiating the attacks were in a dreaming state while awake

Human beings are reduced to ash statues and Broyles realizes that the same person responsible murdered five other persons four years ago... a case that he never solved.

Of Human Action

Two men kidnap a teenage boy using mind control abilities. The boy's father works for Massive Dynamic but Nina insists that the company hasn't been developing mind control, and has no idea who the two kidnappers are. The truth or falsehood of her statements are soon confirmed when Peter encounters t...

The Observer chooses to do something other than observe, abducting a college student. However, when the Fringe team investigates, they discover that there is more than one Observer.. in both time and space.

A Chinese Triad is using illegal aliens to breed parasitic worms that eventually kill their hosts. When a ship runs aground, Fringe Division learns of the operation and tries to locate a second ship before the passengers on it suffer a slow, agonizing death.

The First Wave breaks into a mental hospital and cures a long-term patient suffering from schizophrenia. When the Fringe team investigates, Olivia discovers that the group's leader has one of the heads stolen from cryogenic storage months earlier. Meanwhile, two other mental patients are cured of th...

A teenage girl pronounced brain dead wakes up in the middle of the operation to remove her organs... speaking numbers in Russian. When the Navy confirms that the numbers are nuclear launch codes and a missing officer named Rusk knows them, the search is on for the missing man.

A state trooper picks up a runaway boy, but when he undergoes a strange transformation, three murders result. The Fringe team is called in to investigate and discover that a small town harbors a horrible secret.

What Lies Below

A Dutch industrial consultant arrives for an appointment and dies in a painful explosion of blood. Olivia and Peter arrive on the scene first and discover that the blood contains a pathogen and everyone in the building may be contaminated. While Walter and Astrid work outside the quarantined buildin...

The Bishop Revival

When all of the groom's relatives asphyxiate at a wedding, the Fringe division investigates and quickly ascertain that a human agency is responsible. Walter realizes that the formula for the toxin was based on research conducted by his father, Robert Bischoff, and that the killer isn't stopping with...

The arrival of a building from the alternate Earth causes massive death and destruction to those occupying the site at its arrival. Walter soon realizes that to equalize the balance between universes, another building will have to disappear... along with everyone inside it. The team's only chance is...

Walter explains to Olivia how Peter came from the alternate universe, and how he was willing to risk everything to save his son.

Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.

A healthy woman dies of rapid-onset cancer in a matter of minutes, and the Fringe team is called in to investigate. The killer has connections to Jacksonville... and Olivia is a potential victim. Meanwhile, Olivia tries to come to terms with her knowledge of Peter's origins.

When the passengers on a commuter train all die instantly of massive power loss, the team realizes that a time traveler is responsible... and that it may be impossible to apprehend him. Meanwhile, Walter writes a letter to Peter explaining his origins.

The Man From The Other Side

Two teenagers turn up dead and evidence indicates that shapeshifters have borrowed their forms for some special mission. While the Fringe team tries to track them down, Peter grows increasingly suspicious of Walter's secretive behavior.

When Peter disappears, Walter seeks solace in marijuana. In that state of mind, he and Astrid babysit Olivia's niece Ella, and Walter tells her a fairy tale of a gentle inventor, a stolen glass heart, a detective looking for true love, and a mysterious group of bald men known as the Watchers.

🎭 Cast of Fringe Season 2

Anna Torv

Joshua Jackson

Lance Reddick

Phillip Broyles

Blair Brown

Jasika Nicole

Astrid Farnsworth

John Noble

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