There’s little here to suggest that the film is anything more than a hastily cobbled-together studio star vehicle.
It emerges as an almost wistful hour, to be filed, after a truly disheartening season, under “too little, too late.”
A mixture of old ideas and new developments straining to hold our attention, an insolvent phantom itself.
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It fails to suggest much more than madness in the method, as the show resumes its retreat into the realm of pure plot.
The fact that it stumbles so badly doesn’t bode well for this shambolic season’s looming finale.
It strings together a series of arresting images, but they’re little more than a placeholder for dramas still to come.
The final act is an appropriate description for viewers who’ve struggled to connect with Orphan Black this season.
Perhaps the clever conceit of plumbing scientific texts for episode titles and structuring themes has run its course.
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The episode is best understood as a microcosm of the previous nine episodes.
It may be a measure of how much Orphan Black has won me over, warts and all, that watching Tony sidle up to Felix for a kiss left me so discomfited.
“Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est” is a rollicking mid-season wallop that counts among Orphan Black’s best episodes
On Orphan Black, Tatiana Maslany runs the show, and the episode wrings ample excitements from her incomparable performance.