![]() ![]() ![]() What was initially a high concept thriller is slowly becoming an overcrowded clone carnival. It seems as if the more Orphan Black pulls back the curtain on the clones and their origins, the more the show struggles to keep things interesting. S - just nothing that resonates as clearly or cleanly as the series' earliest first season episodes. There's some great stuff happening too - almost all things Sarah, Helena and Mrs. ![]() Then there's the third season's off-kilter tone, which renders a handful of clone subplots aimless, jarringly silly or, worse, over-indulgent. (Or for its britches, depending on where you call home.) The introduction of the Castor clones in Season Two was a promising development, albeit one that, as Season Three skips along, leads to too many shoulder-shrug reveals, most of which amount to, cute, what's next? (And the occasional, am I supposed to care about this? What else ya got?) Performances are uniformly excellent, but dialogue becomes increasingly expositional, as if the goal is to pad out conversations and manufacture more conflicts to juggle and more interests to navigate. But with that consistency comes the sense that the series' biggest ideas have grown too big for its budget, for its writers, for its mythos, for its already ambitious pursuits, but mostly too big for its own good. Orphan Black hits a nice, breezy stride in its third season, settling into its skin and offering a more consistent bit of clone wrangling. Reviewed by Kenneth Brown, August 5, 2015 Orphan Black: Season Three Blu-ray Review ![]()
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