Only in its giddily gory finale does the outrageousness of the film’s violence come close to matching that of its plot.
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.
Focusing on the clones’ familial and romantic attachments, it offers a glimmer of hope for a return to form.
Tonight’s episode of Orphan Black comes all too close to the grievous error of which its title warns.
More evidence that Maslany’s is the best performance on TV, but it’s unclear if the show can keep pace.
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The episode is best understood as a microcosm of the previous nine episodes.
You know by now that I take Orphan Black’s allusions to the prolific work of English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon seriously.
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.
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The frustratingly inconsistent second season of Orphan Black has been a tale of two series.
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Orphan Black often cloaks the clearest statement of an episode’s theme in an otherwise inconsequential moment.