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Orphan Black

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Sarah Manning sees a woman who looks just like her jump in front of a train and kill herself. Sarah, a small-time con woman and thief, wastes no time in assuming her doppelgänger’s identity but finds more than she bargained for. Orphan Black (2013-2017) is an intelligent yet highly approachable show that is both highly addictive and completely guilt-free. It’s sci-fi done right. But the show might be nothing without the exemplary performances of its star Tatiana Maslany. Keep your eye on this girl. She’s going places.

Sunbunny reviewed nearly episode of this series as it aired. Lamounier completed our coverage with reviews of the final eight episodes.

Season One

1.1 Natural Selection
1.2 Instinct
1.3 Variation under Nature
1.4 Effects of External Conditions
1.5 Conditions of Existence
1.6 Variations under Domestication
1.7 Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner
1.8 Entangled Bank
1.9 Unconscious Selection
1.10 Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Season Two

2.1 Nature under Constraint and Vexed
2.2 Governed by Sound Reason and True Religion
2.3 Mingling Its Own Nature with It
2.4 Governed as It Were by Chance
2.5 Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est
2.6 To Hound Nature in Her Wanderings
2.7 Knowledge of Causes, and Secret Motion of Things
2.8 Variable and Full of Perturbation
2.9 Things Which Have Never yet Been Done
2.10 By Means Which Have Never yet Been Tried

Season Three

3.1 The Weight of This Combination
3.2 Transitory Sacrifices of Crisis
3.3 Formalized, Complex, and Costly
3.4 Newer Elements of Our Defense
3.5 Scarred by Many Past Frustrations
3.6 Certain Agony of the Battlefield
3.7 Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate
3.8 Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method
3.9 Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow
3.10 History yet to Be Written

Season Four

4.1 The Collapse of Nature
4.2 Transgressive Border Crossing
4.3 The Stigmata of Progress
4.4 From Instinct to Rational Control
4.5 Human Raw Material
4.6 The Scandal of Altruism
4.7 The Antisocialism of Sex
4.8 The Redesign of Natural Objects
4.9 The Mitigation of Competition
4.10 From Dancing Mice to Psychopaths

Season Five

5.1 The Few Who Dare
5.2 Clutch of Greed
5.3 Beneath Her Heart
5.4 Let the Children and Childbearers Toil
5.5 Ease for Idle Millionaires
5.6 Manacled Slim Wrists
5.7 Gag or Throttle
5.8 Guillotines Decide
5.9 One Fettered Slave
5.10 To Right the Wrongs of Many

Articles

Naming in Orphan Black by sunbunny
Review of the Orphan Black pilot by Samantha M. Quinn

Cast

Tatiana Maslany (Sarah Manning)
Tatiana Maslany (Alison Hendrix)
Tatiana Maslany (Cosima Niehaus)
Tatiana Maslany (Helena)
Tatiana Maslany (Rachel Duncan)
Tatiana Maslany (Elizabeth Childs)
Tatiana Maslany (Krystal Goderitch)
Tatiana Maslany (M.K.)
Tatiana Maslany (Tony Sawicki)
Tatiana Maslany (Katja Obinger)
Tatiana Maslany (Jennifer Fitzsimmons)
Jordan Gavaris (Felix Dawkins)
Évelyne Brochu (Delphine Cormier)
Maria Doyle Kennedy (Mrs. S)
Dylan Bruce (Paul Dierden)
Skyler Wexler (Kira)
Michiel Huisman (Cal Morrison)
Ari Millen (Mark)
Ari Millen (Rudy)
Ari Millen (Seth)