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Orphan Black (TV Series)

TV Shows from the 2010s

Orphan Black

2013

John Fawcett (Creator), Graeme Manson (Creator) ...

Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kristian Bruun ...

7.1

8,092

TV Series. Sci-Fi. Mystery. Drama. Action TV Series (2013-2017). 5 Seasons. 50 Episodes. Orphan Black follows outsider, orphan and street-wise chameleon Sarah. After witnessing a woman's suicide, Sarah assumes the strangers identity - who happens to look just like her. Expecting to solve all her problems by cleaning out the dead woman's savings, Sarah is instead thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery as she realizes the dizzying truth - she and the dead woman are clones. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Mark Perigard Boston Herald	"[5th Season Review]: [It] finds Emmy winner Tatiana Maslany turning in some of her most subtle, authentic work"	POS
United States	Kelsey J. Waite AV Club	"[5th Season Review]: It is impressive that they’ve been able to navigate such a wide-open premise (...) Although Rachel’s arc this season is bound to be the most far-reaching, everyone’s storyline thickens."	POS
Canada	John Doyle The Globe and Mail	"[5th Season Review]: The plot makes some sense in the final season, but it’s trying too hard, too late."	NEU
United States	Hanh Nguyen IndieWire	"[5th Season Review]: Final season gets the fun, frightening and feminist farewell it deserves (...) The series has always been one of a kind."	POS
United States	Derek Lawrence Entertainment Weekly	"[5th Season Review]: Credit goes almost entirely to Maslany, who after four seasons and an Emmy win, still continues to electrify any time she’s onscreen."	POS
United States	Tim Goodman SFGATE	"It is, flat out, one of the most intriguingly entertaining new series of the year, and it’s so much more than pure entertainment. For a sci-fi series, there’s some real heft to it"	POS
United States	Matt Roush TV Guide	"Funky, freaky and fascinating, 'Orphan' deserves to be adopted by any pulp-fantasy fan"	POS
United States	Linda Stasi New York Post	"An intriguing new series (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Mary McNamara Los Angeles Times	"Chockablock with clichés, predictable exposition (...) and some fairly whacked-out plot twists. But it doesn't matter because 'Orphan Black' isn't so much about plot as it is performance"	POS
United States	David Wiegand SFGATE	"Aside from the performances by Maslany, especially, and Gavaris, who gets some of the show's best lines, it takes until the third and fourth episodes for 'Orphan Black' to start growing on you"	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry Variety	"Other than enjoying Maslany in multiple characters, wigs and accents, there’s nothing so distinctive about the plot as to provide an incentive to hang around long enough to sort out all the gory details regarding who might want to eliminate them"	NEU

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