Orphan Black - S2

Finished binge watching Orphan Black - S2 this weekend. Actually this has been a rather productive stay-cation: ( Read more... )

Back to our regularly scheduled program:

In a nutshell? S2 Orphan Black, sorry to say, is not quite as good nor nearly entertaining as S1. I think the plot (and some of the characters) got stretched out too thin and become somewhat convoluted, falling into cliche at various points. This happens a lot with high concept genre series or so I've noticed. Science Fiction shows have a tendency to fall into over-done or well-established/classic tropes (some of which have been so overdone they are bordering on the cliche): ( vague spoilers )

Let's face it - there's not much new you can say about cloning. And it's really hard to do a series about cloning or reproductive rights without stumbling into the over-done tropes. It's also apparently hard to do it without getting really convoluted and somewhat silly. I've yet to see anyone pull it off. To be fair, Orphan Black comes closest.

That said? What I liked about it?
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What didn't quite work were the various plot-threads.
I felt that they had too many plot-threads going at the same time - and not a lot of focus. Some worked better than others.

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Overall? A fun season, but a deeply flawed one.

True Blood - Final Season (which based on this episode? Is probably a good thing.)

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