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Orphan Black - new Sci-Fi thriller - Saturdays on BBC America

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On top of everything else, this is the funniest show I'm watching too. Really loved her outbursts here, esp. Cosima's GET OUT!
 
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Grifter said:
On top of everything else, this is the funniest show I'm watching too. Really loved her outbursts here, esp. Cosima's GET OUT!
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I think Alison's "AND YOU BLEW THE ROOFER AT THE CABIN" takes the cake as funniest moment of the year. Holy crap.

I love how different all the clones look. Like, they're all Tatiana, but I can immediately distinguish between Alison and Sara, and not just cause of hair. There's just something about the way she plays them.
 
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NotTheGuyYouKill said:
I think Alison's "AND YOU BLEW THE ROOFER AT THE CABIN" takes the cake as funniest moment of the year. Holy crap.

I love how different all the clones look. Like, they're all Tatiana, but I can immediately distinguish between Alison and Sara, and not just cause of hair. There's just something about the way she plays them.
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Yeah it's like I've seen Sarah's ass but yet I still want to see Allison's ass. It's different somehow. Now that's acting.
 
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I like how Cosima uses her hands so much while she talks. Whenever she's explaining something her hands go crazy. Good touch.
 
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NotTheGuyYouKill said:
Now that Art knows about Sarah, the only way I see this playing out (now that the revelation that Sarah and Helena are twins) is Helena taking the fall for Sarah and going to prison in her place.
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But Helena couldn't impersonate Beth. With all of the look-alike shenanigans going on that Art is aware of I imagine there would be a lot more scrutiny of stuff like that.
 
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Was able to finally catch up on this. The last couple episodes had so many crazy moments and so much that happened. I'm not sure why but that tail creeped me out way too much.
 
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yencid said:
http://orphanblack.tumblr.com/post/51608414993/at-the-end-of-the-name-of-the-doctor-when-john

"At the end of The Name of the Doctor, when John Hurt turns around? That was not John Hurt. That was Tatiana Maslany in a John Hurt mask. Also, the name of the Doctor is definitely Tatiana Maslany. That is just a fact."
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Think I'm done with Art's actor and his confused/angry looks, but I'm pleasantly surprised by the effective detective work we're getting out of a cop side-character.
 
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Grifter said:
Think I'm done with Art's actor and his confused/angry looks, but I'm pleasantly surprised by the effective detective work we're getting out of a cop side-character.
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To be fair, he is kinda constantly in the dark as he works things out but still knowing something fishy is afoot. I'd be pretty confused/angry/frustrated too.
 
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Just binged the 9 episodes so far and I love this show. Too bad to see it is only a 10 episode season but at least there will be more on the way.

Since people are talking about the funniest stuff so far, my vote goes to how Donnie was clinging to a pillow looking completely violated at the end of the torture episode. Poor guy.
 
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Tokubetsu said:
To be fair, he is kinda constantly in the dark as he works things out but still knowing something fishy is afoot. I'd be pretty confused/angry/frustrated too.
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TBH, I'm not sure why the clones haven't gone to the police about all this stuff.

Guess Sarah would get in a lot of trouble for impersonating a cop.
 
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There will be plenty of time to read all the articles after the finale airs. Until then, I'm trying to stay away from anything related to the show until it's done.
 
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Cornballer said:
*high five*




Assorted Allison:
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She looks a bit like Nikki Cox there.

I haven't read them all yet, but the Grantland piece relating Orphan Black to 90's sci-fi was pretty good.
Like David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Garner, and many others before her, Orphan Black’s fan base has incredible devotion to Maslany for offering a performance of this caliber in a genre where many other actors get away with coasting. They hope and believe she’s a star in the making, but for now, she’s theirs.
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I didn't watch too much of those besides X-File, but Maslany is way better than those people :p
 
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- Onion A|V Club's Random Roles feature: Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany discusses all her roles—in the same show
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

The actor: BBC America’s newest original drama series, the sci-fi headtrip Orphan Black, is one of those shows that simply would not work without the right actress at its center. Tasked with playing nearly a dozen different variations on the same person over the course of the first season, the central actress would have to be in nearly every scene, sometimes as the only person in those scenes, bouncing off of two or three different versions of herself. Fortunately, the network was able to find the virtual unknown Tatiana Maslany, a Canadian actress whose prior credits mostly included a long string of parts in Canadian TV series and made-for-TV movies, as well as the role of the Virgin Mary in a British made-for-TV movie about the Nativity. But none of those parts would have suggested she was capable of this feat: Maslany plays what would be the equivalent of four regular characters on other dramas, as well as a succession of guest-star turns, and she makes all of the characters distinct while never heading over the top. In true Random Roles tradition, she sat down with The A.V. Club to talk about all of the parts she’s played—just, this time, in the same show.
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AVC: Just technically speaking, how do you film one of these scenes, when there’s three or four versions of you in the same space?

TM: It takes, like, 12 hours. [Laughs.] It’s the most technically ridiculous time of my life. We have a camera that’s called the technodolly, which basically memorizes a camera move internally, so that it does the same thing every time, which is awesome, so we don’t always have to just do a lock-off shot, where it’s just, like, two people standing in the same shot. The camera actually moves, and I think it really sells it. So the first pass we do to memorize the camera move, we use doubles in place of the other characters that I’m talking to. Then, once we have that, they leave, and I start to do it for real, just to eyelines, with an earwig [earpiece], which is saying the other lines, so the rhythm is the same. Then once we get a perfect take of that, I leave and come back as the next character and then shoot it from the other side. Now, I’m having to remember where the eyelines were, where I was before, when I stood up, how high I stood up, or how close I came, or if I handed myself a bottle of pills or something. It’s heavily technical and probably the most challenging thing I’ve ever done on screen.
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