Imagine, if you will, the creator of Lost doing his riff on The X-Files, in a series that stars future cast members of Mindhunter, Sleepy Hollow, and the John Wick movies. Sounds awesome, right? Well, it already exists, and it’s streaming for free on PlutoTV.
Fringe was J.J. Abrams’ followup to Lost, which was still on the air — albeit no longer at the peak of its popularity — when the Fringe pilot aired in November of 2008. (Specifically, it aired between Lost Seasons 4 and 5, a.k.a. where things started to get really weird on the island.) Abrams was also working on his first Star Trek movie at the time, and brought in writers Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci to help develop the series, which the trio compared to The Twilight Zone, the films of David Croneberg, and Ken Russell’s 1980 mind-bender Altered States — and, of course, The X-Files.
