Maybe they told him to be dead and go live in Guadalupe. Only he’s in our freezer.
–Alison
The second last episode of the season grows tense as storylines converge, Helena pokes back, and Rachel plots. Alison and Donnie provide much-needed comic relief by disposing of a corpse.
He’s not at all well-wrapped!
–Alison berates her husband over his inadequate homicide concealment skills
Apparently, Orphan Black‘s creators didn’t think their show had induced enough WTF?!? responses yet.
Please tell me your hands haven’t been soaking in some gruesomely fecund jelly.—Dr. Marion Bowles
Orphan Black delivers a weaker episode than usual, but it includes a number of important developments, a big dose of farcical comedy—and Siobhan Sadler at her badass best.
Take me to my babies.
This week highlights some unlikely alliances, as we drive towards Cold River and dark revelations.
Just don’t kill my rubber ducky.
–Felix, to Helena
Even at its most conventional, Orphan Black remains the most brilliantly deranged and executed show on television.
What else is she not bloody telling us?
Orphan Black delivers its most twisted, twist-filled episode of the second season.
Thus far.
Born too late to make the top spot on our current poll for Best SF Show of all time, Orphan Black should vie for the position in any future list. If you like serious SF, drama with a twist of macabre humor, or mystery—- if you enjoy these things at all—- go back, rewatch last season, and join this one, in progress. Orphan Black ranks among the best shows on television right now, period.
As evidence, I offer the current episode.
Alison: I killed Aynsley!
Felix: No. No. Well, not really… Hardly.
Mysteries solved and new ones established: Orphan Black gives us the frequent factionalizing of extremist groups, the baddassery of Sarah’s foster mom, and the horrors of community musical theatre. This show apparently hates suburbia as much as it loves mind-frakking its audience.
This organism and its derivatives are restricted intellectual property.
The best SF show currently running returns for its second season, and the premiere episode doesn’t disappoint.