Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

luckybuccaneer My rating of 10 out of 10 for a review means that it needs to be, in my opinion, one of the best things I've seen. This is normally reserved for Star Wars, Blade Runner and their ilk. This easily stands tall against some of the best TV I have ever watched, GoT and Walking Dead included. I have never enjoyed binge watching a series as much as I did this. Tatiana Maslany is mesmerising and it is phenomenal how often you forget that the 'sestras' are all her, so distinct are the separate personalities; and she finally received a well deserved Emmy for it. Many critics on here mention that some of the characters can often be mean, manipulative and perhaps unlikeable, and in some case those critics are correct; and they are also completely missing the point. Look deeper... Orphan Black doesn't attempt to portray these women are the perfect embodiment of their sex, but as real beings who are flawed, make bad choices and worse mistakes. Although these are strong diverse women, they can be selfish, self-absorbed and vulnerable; all is on display. It may be solid sci-fi, but the science is secondary to what the show is about and that is what it means to be a family. It is about motherhood, sisterhood and a woman's right to her own body, in this case literally. It is about a woman's place in society and the debate on nature vs nurture. Indeed, feminism is strong throughout this show, but it is never overly overt, or to the detriment of its strong male support. Orphan Black successfully demonstrates that masculinity should not be the continual attempt of living up to toxic ideals, but that decent men support and respect those around them. However, Orphan Black never leans heavily towards an overly strong agenda and has an true equality to it that this world needs in these times. In my opinion it is hands down THE best TV series I have ever seen...period, and that is saying something for me. My only regret is that it took so long for me to get round to watching it. It's now been 3 weeks since I watch the entire volume and I miss it already.

chris-47678 So came across this and after reading some of the reviews thought i would give it a go The initial first hook of the first episode is a struggling wide girl single mother sees a woman commit suicide and steal her bag .after rifling through her bag she discovers she looks like the victim and decided to take on her identity to escape from her abusive boyfriends whom she has been in hiding from,She has a step brother whom she is close too and confides in him. the story builds from there and you soon discover the victim was a detective who had money in the bank and a nice house but was suspended from the police for a shooting,Thats the first episode and it builds form there. The one thing that is really not good is the loud background music constantly playing whilst the actors talk,and it s a struggle to hear what they are saying.i do not understand how the producers don't notice this before they released this.if anything puts me off continuing watching it will be that.after on e episode promising but the background noise will need to get better or i wont be watching it long.

karajit I had been wanting it to be watched but always I ended up watching other tv series so one day I donno how but I gave it a shot and what can i tell ya I friggin' loved it! After watching two episodes I kinda hooked by it. I couldn't stop watching It.I stopped studying for some days just to watch this masterpiece.This show tells us that two projects i.e. Leda and Custor are the clone making projects which produce girl clones and boy clones respectively.Plot starts with a girl named Sarah Manning saw someone is upset so she went there to console her but she saw her mirror image(Beth Childs) as if they are twins and commits suicide and she took that girls' identity and turned out that the woman who committed suicide was a cop and then turned the story outstandingly.She got to meet Helena,Cosima,Alison,Rachel her clone sisters and Sarah took mission to save her sisters for all the larchs!I must say the actress of Orphan Black Tatiana Maslani who acted as Sarah,Cosima,Helena,Alison,Rachel etc all by her own outstandingly deserves standing ovation! From then she has become my fav actress!! I got goosebumps and cried in joy when she got Emmy and trust me I never wanted anyone getting award before this much! After finishing it I kinda feel sad as I wanted more for all the characters especially Helena..Thank you "Sastras" for this amazing show and thank you BBC America!!

matteo-coppolaneri I loved the show, especially Maslany's acting, but I feel like the writers have lost a huge opportunity here on some ethical and philosophical debate on science, human trials, cloning, etc.These are all topics that of course get thrown in the show, but everything is clearly delineated by an ethical clarity of what's good and what's bad. There's no space for reflection, and even when some arguments leave space for that, the writers make sure to abolish it completely by presenting some psychopathic, mad scientists. For some reason EVERYONE on this organization is completely mad, an assassin, or a cold scientist who does not care for their patients and just wants to get his "science" done for whatever reason. There could have been a massive amount of interesting food for the mind in this show, is cloning right? is it wrong? what is the limit of pursuing scientific and technological advancement? But no, let's have a stereotypical villain organisation made exclusively by corrupt people and manipulating sociopaths who also use deliberate assassins to play out their intentions, so that the audience will clearly see what's good and what's bad.It's almost like they were scared to touch these points, like they used this as the background for a more common story plot. We've got Blade Runner leaving us for 30 years reflecting on what synthetic life is and if "retiring" a clone is something good or bad to do, and here's Orphan Black's writers that know it all already. Really bummed out by this.Anyway apart from this, S1 is great, S2 and S3 get a bit lost in their wandering, S4 is amazing and S5 starts good with this iconic figure of the bicentennial man only to turn it upside down in the space of a couple of hours. DAMN I'M SO FRUSTRATED AT WHAT THIS STORY COULD HAVE BEEN IF TOLD PROPERLY!