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Orphan Black - Unconscious Selection
episode 1.9
Canada 2013
produced by Claire Welland, John Fawcett (executive), David Fortier (executive), Graeme Manson (executive), Ivan Schneeberg (executive) for Temple Street Productions, Bell Media/BBC (BBC America)
directed by T.J. Scott
starring Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchard, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Matt Frewer, Skyler Wexler, Kristian Bruun, Melanie Nicholls-King, Inga Cadranel, Ron Lea, Evelyne Brochu, Daniel Kash, Natalie Lisinska, Nicholas Rose, Josh Vokey, Kristi Angus, Priya Rao, Ryan Blakely, Billy Parrott, Jarret Wright, Okiki Kendall, Jennifer Krukowski, Azdin Zaman, Neil Girvan, Rob Trick, Louise Nicol
written by Alex Levine, created by Graeme Manson, John Fawcett, music by Trevor Yuile
TV-series Orphan Black
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Kira (Skyler Wexler) has miraculously survived last
episode's accident with hardly a scratch, and yet her mum Sarah
(Tatiana Maslany) wants revenge. Of course she doesn't know that her crazy
clone (also Tatiana Maslany) never wanted anything to happen to Kira, and
that as a punishment for not killing Kira, her monitor Tomas (Daniel Kash)
has locked her in a cage. And to be released, Helena has to relie on
Sarah. Fellow clone Cosima (Tatiana Maslany again) is devastated that
her girlfriend Delphine (Evelyne Brochu) has obviously betrayed her trust
and spilt some of her secrets do Dr. Leekie (Matt Frewer), whom all
iterations of Sarah believe to be behind it all - and that even though
Cosima suspected Delphine to be her monitor. Another clone, Alison (yep,
also Tatiana Maslany) has fled her nice family home after the scandal she
caused last episode,
but has to return to pick up things, to find all neighbours awaiting her
for an intervention, of course organized by local gossiper Aynsley
(Natalie Lisinska), whom Alison believes to be her monitor. And that makes
Alison blow her top and she finally tells her in front of everyone what she
thinks about her - and it's not nice. Art (Kevin Hanchard), the partner
of the deceased clone Beth, finally finds out that it was indeed Beth who
had killed herself and Sarah had taken on her identity for a while - but
that said, he fails to make heads or tails of the whole clone business. Helena
calls Sarah to free her from the cage she's in - but Sarah brings a gun,
only to realize she can't shoot who's essentially another version of
herself, however insane. And then Tomas shows up, and Sarah convinces
Helena that he's the bad guy of the situation, and ultimately she manages
to have Tomas locked up in a cage, Helena tied up in her trunk, and think
she has at least some of her problems resolved, when her foster mother
(Maria Doyle Kennedy) introduces her to her real (in vitro) mother, Amelia
(Melanie Nicholls-King), who tells her she was to give birth to Sarah in
exchange for a better life while Sarah was to be given up to sciense, but
she run away when she heard what the scientists had in store for the kid,
to later leave Sarah in the care of the state. She also reveals Sarah had
a twin sister whom she gave to the church - Helena. As the
penultimate episode of the first season of Orphan Black, this
episode does its best to drum up things for what hopefully will be an epic
finale - and for the first time in the series, it kind of over-reaches, as
this episode feels a bit too heterogenic on a narrative level, as it seems
hell-bent to make things even more mysterious, but only confuses the
audience more, while other narrative threads end in the nowhere - like
Alison's intervention, which was at least funny - or make little sense -
like Cosima breaking down over Delphine having given up her secrets even
though it was clear from the get-go that that's what Delphine would do.
That said, there's still plenty of tension and excitement in this episode,
and it sure whets one's appetite for things to come.
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