The show’s second season plays with structure and tone to explore the violence that shapes its characters’ lives.
The series is gory and dour with a bone-deep cynicism, but it’s also optimistic in its own small way.
There’s barely enough substance in Destroyer to support an Aesop’s fable, let alone a Los Angeles crime epic.
Director David Gordon Green’s Stronger offers up an unassuming portrait of wounded love and solitude.
Maslany and Cullen discuss the pros and cons of playing a love story with your real-life partner.
The Other Half’s emotional resonance is consistently stifled by excessively gloomy aesthetic and stylistic tics.
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.
Focusing on the clones’ familial and romantic attachments, it offers a glimmer of hope for a return to form.
Perhaps the clever conceit of plumbing scientific texts for episode titles and structuring themes has run its course.
The film simply mucks up its earnest take on the buddy movie with undercooked characters and on-the-nose writing.
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.
The film evades all but the most careful commonplaces about the relationship between the viewer and art.
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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.