Wednesday, July 23, 2014

All Of Orphan Black Season 2 Pretty Much At Once

A few nights, actually, but I watched all of season 2, and I thought I saw a few signs that like Charlie Jade and Surface and Lost, the Orphan Black people were surprised they were a thing and realized that they had not so much of an idea where they were going, especially when they slipped into Kids in the Hall mode with Allison's husband and Vic the Dick.  The clone world is awful small on the show now, with everybody in Canada either a clone, a monitor, a clone scientist, or a pro- or anti-clone outlaw, so being a clone or associated with cloning is not nearly as scary or difficult as it probably should be.  I was hoping for a more dangerous, 70s-paranoid, film-noirish world where the clone makers and everyone else were almost as powerless and fearful as the clones themselves because of the shocking, illegal, seemingly alien nature of the entire clone program.  Peter Outerbridge was good as the fundie loon, if maybe a little too comfortable playing such a terrible asshole; Kevin Hanchard, the actor playing Art, had the best season, I think, and really took the opportunity to make his character vital to the story with his performance.  Not bad overall, if not all that I'd hoped, but there will be a third season, so we will have the potential for some great tee vee or an absolute train wreck.  The pool, the pond.

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