The Television landscape is now jam packed with any number of oddities, scifi, horror, fantasy, cosplayers baring their claws, and the oddest of all...men who made millions hunting ducks. THE HORROR. Leave it to BBC America to slide past the throng, bypass the pissing contest all together and run a show so original it's like taking a shower under a chilly mountain waterfall with a unicorn. Refreshing!! It's called Orphan Black and if you are the least bit nerdy and a whole lot of geeky, you should be hooked any minute now.
The show opens on Sarah Manning, a tough, street smart Brit hustler in America, looking to do anything she can to survive...until she comes face to face with herself! The show's creators started with a simple premise. "What would you do if you ran into someone who looked just like you, on a train platform...and then they killed themselves?" For Sarah, a choice needs to be made quickly and since she is in survival mode at the time, it is a clear one. She swoops in and takes the dead doppelganger's bag and swiftly scrambles to assume her identity before anyone is the wiser. One small problem. The new identity is American. And a cop. Two small problems. Later we find Sarah's ganger was also a pill popper at the end of her rope unraveling a world wide cloning conspiracy that she herself was at the center of...so yea...several more problems, but then the maths were never my strong suit. Sarah must play the cop, make an effort to get back her daughter and dodge a killer whilst making sure to not set off alarms to the powers that be that she is onto their giant clone experiment and keep everyone she cares about safe.
