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Filming last week’s Fringe was taxing on actress Blair Brown, who plays Nina Sharp on the Fox drama, particularly because filming Nina’s torture scene was, well, “torture.”

“I had a welt on the back of my head from banging my head into that bed frame because it was a really nasty, rusty old bed frame, which looked great,” she says. “I had a headache for about two days afterwards. I wouldn’t try it at home.”

But the audience is likely experiencing a little headache themselves following the episode. So in a Fringe Friday chat with Brown (Hey, the show might be on break, but we’re certainly not!) she breaks down the episode and previews what’s to come.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: There are so many questions surrounding the characters that you’re playing right now — because there are two Ninas. I know the guys don’t tell you all that much, but what can you tell me about how this episode changes where we’re going in the next few?
BLAIR BROWN: Obviously, the challenge was once I realized that this was Mean-a — Mean Nina — it was hard pretending to be good Nina. READ FULL STORY »

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Ever since Fringe‘s beginning, the tangled mythology has been unraveled at a pace synonymous with genre TV — most “answers” lead to more questions. Friday’s episode of Fringe, ominously titled “The End of All Things,” is one such milestone in the show’s history.

“It’s definitely, as they say, a game-changer in that our characters learn a lot more and the audience is going to learn a lot more about the über-plot of the season’s bad guy, David Robert Jones (Jared Harris),” executive producer Jeff Pinkner said today in a conference call with reporters. The episode also finds the Observer (Michael Cerveris) peeling “back some layers about what his agenda has been and use that as an opportunity to revisit the things  on the show we’ve seen before.” READ FULL STORY »