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Orphan Black - Season 2 - Starring Tatiana Maslany as everyone - Sat on BBC America

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Cornballer

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- Onion A|V Club review
Orphan Black is better than almost any show on TV at feeling like it’s constantly building toward something, no matter how perilous and rickety its structure becomes. When the show is on target, it speeds forward with confidence and grace, its characters intelligently working their way out of corners just as fast as the writers can paint them into new ones. But the series’ secret strength is in the way it can be surprisingly heartfelt, too. Grade: A-
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- Maureen Ryan: Orphan Black Review: Clones Return With Lots Of Energy, New Friends And New Enemies
This show is clearly still evolving, and the many good things it has going for it earned it a whole lot of trust in my book. So if, in the early going, I had to recalibrate my expectations a bit and wait for the show to slide into the modes I prefer, I am okay with that. All four episodes were quite watchable, but there are some scenes and sequences in the third and especially the fourth episode that made me recall the delirious, addictive strangeness of Season 1.

The weight of expectations on this new season were great, and if this plucky show staggers a little under that weight, that's understandable. I'm fully on board for Season 2, and I have every reason to believe "Orphan Black" will keep evolving in the direction of perfection. Science demands it.
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CarbonatedFalcon

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Just finished season 1, looking forward to season 2.

Overall enjoyed it quite a bit.

My one qualm right now is with the (apparent) plothole in the last episode where
it's written in the genetic code that they're patented. If the whole shebang was illegal, as mentioned in an earlier episode, it seems dubious that such a thing would hold any water. Patented in what country? Patents are disclosed to the government, lawyers, etc. if not the public as well. Unless it's intended more as a "Patent Pending" sort of thing. It's either a writing flub, or the whole conspiracy is at a much grander scope than has been shown so far, beyond the realm of mere companies.

Hard to say without knowing the writer's intentions.
 
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Cornballer

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I'm rewatching the last two episodes from S1 to get ready for the new season. The intervention for Alison is hilarious.

This also just happened:
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UrbanRats

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CarbonatedFalcon said:
Just finished season 1, looking forward to season 2.

Overall enjoyed it quite a bit.

My one qualm right now is with the (apparent) plothole in the last episode where
it's written in the genetic code that they're patented. If the whole shebang was illegal, as mentioned in an earlier episode, it seems dubious that such a thing would hold any water. Patented in what country? Patents are disclosed to the government, lawyers, etc. if not the public as well. Unless it's intended more as a "Patent Pending" sort of thing. It's either a writing flub, or the whole conspiracy is at a much grander scope than has been shown so far, beyond the realm of mere companies.

Hard to say without knowing the writer's intentions.
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Yeah that was the major problem I had with S1, too.

We'll see where they go with it.
 
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Intheflorsh

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Finished the first season... I didn't see the Donnie twist coming, though in retrospect that was obviously the only reason he would have stayed with Allison after the glue gun incident. Can't wait to see how Allison will react when realizes she (basically) murdered her neighbor for no reason. Fucking Donnie.

I've heard
musical theater
is going to be a big part of Season 2, can't wait!
 
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Fantastical

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CarbonatedFalcon said:
Just finished season 1, looking forward to season 2.

Overall enjoyed it quite a bit.

My one qualm right now is with the (apparent) plothole in the last episode where
it's written in the genetic code that they're patented. If the whole shebang was illegal, as mentioned in an earlier episode, it seems dubious that such a thing would hold any water. Patented in what country? Patents are disclosed to the government, lawyers, etc. if not the public as well. Unless it's intended more as a "Patent Pending" sort of thing. It's either a writing flub, or the whole conspiracy is at a much grander scope than has been shown so far, beyond the realm of mere companies.

Hard to say without knowing the writer's intentions.
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Yeah that made absolutely no sense. There was a big build up to it too, and when it was revealed I was like "so what?" :p
 
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royalan

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All in and subscribed.

Orphan Black was one of the biggest surprises for me last year. A great sci-fi concept that makes up for it's small budget with a lot of heart.
 
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Megasoum

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I'm re-watching season 1... Episode 6 is so incredible. The editing is great, the use of licensed music is amazing and the whole clusterfuck with the pot-lock and everybody from every sides of the story suddenly ending in the same building but on different floors hahaha....
 
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Larson Conway

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Sarah Manning
Alison Henrix
Cosima Niehaus
Rachel Duncan

Jennifer Fitzsimmons
Janika Zingler
Danielle Fournier
Alyanna Giordano
Katja Obinger
Elizabeth Childs
Helena

11 clones identified so far.

I'm betting by the series' end, this is going full Alice. And I will love it.
 
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Fantastical

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Megasoum said:
I'm re-watching season 1... Episode 6 is so incredible. The editing is great, the use of licensed music is amazing and the whole clusterfuck with the pot-lock and everybody from every sides of the story suddenly ending in the same building but on different floors hahaha....
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Yep, by far my favorite episode. So crazy what is happening on each floor of some suburban home. :p
 
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Dice//

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I re-watcehd S1 to 'prepare'. I was amazed at how much I don't see them as the same actress -- I'm good to enjoy the ride, the characters all feel different and unique.

...well, except the red-headed Russian clone from the first episode. Malsany's English accent is about 1,000 times more convincing than her Russian one.
 
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Megasoum

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Dice// said:
I re-watcehd S1 to 'prepare'. I was amazed at how much I don't see them as the same actress -- I'm good to enjoy the ride, the characters all feel different and unique.
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Yeah absolutely, I totally forget it's the same person playing half the characters on screen.
 
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- Onion A|V Club Interview: Orphan Black showrunner Graeme Manson on what’s up with that tail (Also: Feminism, The X-Files, and season two)
Canadian screenwriter Graeme Manson had seen success before he created and served as co-showrunner for BBC America’s Orphan Black, but few of his previous credits—including the script for the film Cube and work on Canadian TV shows like Endgame and The Bridge—proved as quickly popular as the sci-fi series about a woman who learns she’s just one in a number of clones. Sure, it took a short while for Orphan Black to catch on, but within weeks of the airing of its first-season finale, the show was packing rooms at San Diego Comic-Con and series star Tatiana Maslany was winning acting awards from critics organizations and getting nominated for Golden Globes. Manson recently sat down with The A.V. Club to talk about keeping the show’s momentum going in season two, the moment he knew Maslany was up to the task of playing dozens of characters, and the feminist underpinnings of Orphan Black.
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- Andy Greenwald for Grantland: ‘Orphan Black’ Returns for a New Season, Even Clone-Crazier Than Before
Emboldened by their crazy luck in getting Orphan Black off the ground in the first place, Manson and Fawcett know better than to jinx themselves by slowing down now. The first season blew through more plot than most shows attempt in a lifetime; the second feels even more ambitious. New friends quickly become enemies; old enemies return with a vengeance. Not all of it works but everything moves so fast it’s hard to find time to complain.
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Dice// said:
I re-watcehd S1 to 'prepare'. I was amazed at how much I don't see them as the same actress -- I'm good to enjoy the ride, the characters all feel different and unique.

...well, except the red-headed Russian clone from the first episode. Malsany's English accent is about 1,000 times more convincing than her Russian one.
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Here's to hoping there's no Australian clone. I was struck by how different all her characterisations are as well, I remember not even noticing a glimmer of similarity between them.
 
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Cornballer

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- Red Eye Chicago
It remains one of TV's most compelling series, period.
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- EW review
Orphan Black has much on its mind, and maybe too much going on. But it knows to play to its amazing strengths--most of which are named Maslany. Grade: B+
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- Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Through the first four episodes of the new season, Orphan Black maintains the terrific mix introduced in season one.
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- TV Guide:
This could and should be the season when Orphan Black graduates from cult curiosity and is adopted by the pop culture at large as the watercooler sensation it deserves to be. Stranger things have happened, but rarely so well deserved.
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(L-R) Aryanna Giordano (Italy), Janika Zingler (Austria), Danielle Fournier (France)

From the Reddit AMA:
Q: Huge Orphan Black fan! Will we learn more about the other European clones? Possibly see them in action?
A: GM: We're really interested in that. JF: Through developing the mythology of the series, we are very interested in exploring our European clones potentially prior to their death. GM: We'd love to take the show to Europe. JF: We talk about origin, potentially trying to do an origin story all the time.
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I am not opposed to this.
 
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ivysaur12

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From the NYT review:

It’s the kind of performance feat that many people find appealing for its own sake, but if you look past the gee-whiz facade, you can’t help noticing that Ms. Maslany isn’t exactly channeling Alec Guinness in “Kind Hearts and Coronets” (or Jefferson Mays in “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” if you prefer). She has an appealing spunkiness but lacks the kind of range that would really make the clones into distinct, and distinctive, characters.
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-Kees-

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Heard good things about it last year but just decide to check it out the other day after seeing this thread.

Me:"I'll check out the first episode just to see what it's all about. I have other stuff to watch though."

I just finished marathoning it. Man this show........Good stuff people.

Also, Team Cosima.
 
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