Category: Orphan Black
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TV Episode Review: “Orphan Black” “Governed by Sound Reason and True Religion” (02.02)
Recently, I wrote a rambling little post about the death of the paranoid thriller. Until this week’s episode, I didn’t realize that I had completely forgotten a current example of a paranoid thriller in Orphan Black. I think the show has been headed down the path to being a paranoid thriller since the start, but…
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TV Episode Review: “Orphan Black” “Nature Under Constraint and Vexed” (02.01, 2014)
Lots of people have played multiple characters in one project (whether film or television). Usually, the hair, makeup, and costuming do most of the work. What makes Tatiana Maslany so amazing is that she isn’t content to leave it to those external factors to separate her characters. When Sarah walks into the Dyad party pretending…
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TV Season Review: “Orphan Black” Season One (2013)
Plot is the story being told. Annie Hall‘s (Woody Allen, USA 1977) plot is that two people meet, have a tumultuous relationship in which they fall and break up numerous times, and then finally break up for good. Narrative is the way the story is told. In Annie Hall, it is told through a series…
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