Orphan Black

One of the best TV series I have ever seen is Orphan Black. A Twitter friend recommended it to me, and I started watching it as soon as possible. I couldn’t stop until I finished the whole season, completely obsessed with it.  

There’s only a season, with ten episodes, so I’m waiting like crazy for April 19^th, when the second season starts. I really need to watch more!!

The Canadian science fiction series is about Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany), a quite normal young woman who comes back home, escaping from her abusive boyfriend, and who runs into a woman at the train station who commits suicide right in front of her, jumping in front of a train. But the strangest thing isn’t the suicide, because the woman, Elizabeth Childs, looked exactly like Sarah, they could’ve been twins. Sarah, alarmed by such a weird thing, steals Beth’s purse with all her information and keys, phone… And she thinks what to do with it. Sarah’s purpose back in town is to get enough money so Felix (Jordan Gavaris), her best friend and foster brother, Kira (Skyler Wexler), Sarah’s seven-year-old daughter, and her can run away together. But things aren’t that easy. She ran away ten months ago, leaving Kira with Sarah’s foster mother, Mrs. S (Maria Doyle Kennedy), and now Mrs. S doesn’t want to give Kira back, concerned about the child. So Sarah has to convince Mrs. S that she won’t leave Kira again, she has to get enough money, which dead Elizabeth Childs seems to have had, besides having a really hot boyfriend, Paul Dierden (Dylan Bruce), and deal with the fact that Beth isn’t the only person worldwide who looks like Sarah, and starts doing so by supplanting Beth’s identity.

Everyone should watch this show. There is no way your life is complete without having seen this. Tatiana Maslany is so good acting… Not only she plays Sarah, but also Beth and the rest of clones, in a way that each of them has a different way of walking, speaking, acting… They are all so different, even though they look the same. It’s just awesome. There’s always something happening in every episode. It isn’t like all those series with filler chapters, all those series with never ending episodes where nothing happens. In Orphan Black, if you just get distracted for a couple of minutes, you can miss the key in the series.

An absolutely amazing TV series, one of the best I have ever seen, so everyone should at least give it a try (you won’t be able to resist it). Just watch it.