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Orphan Black is a science-fiction thriller following Sarah Manning, a streetwise hustler who witnesses the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

Subreddit for everything related to Orphan Black, the BBC America TV show.


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Do you wish Krystal Goderitch covered its my life by no doubt . I see Krystal doing a music video of No Doubt - It's my life

5 Comments
2024/12/02
01:46 UTC

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Some football game is on, and a commercial came on with Snoop Dogg....

Chiefs vs Raiders game.

I swear Water Prayer Rasta (from the dance scene) was playing. Idek where to search for this. Can anyone confirm or deny?

0 Comments
2024/11/29
21:39 UTC

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If Cosima and Delphine got married, what songs would be on the wedding playlist

What songs would be on their playlist?

7 Comments
2024/11/28
15:07 UTC

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Simu Liu

Just noticed on a rewatch, Simu Liu in season 5 ep 2 as Kira's teacher. Didn't know who he was the first times I watched this.

3 Comments
2024/11/20
22:44 UTC

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S5E1 - Everyone is so shiny

The 4k upgrade over the gritty style of 1-4 will take some getting used to, but I don't mind it so far. I can at least understand why Kuz finds it so hard to quit Delphine now.

0 Comments
2024/11/20
09:48 UTC

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So is Helena finding the time to bleach her hair every few weeks?

Rewatching for the first time since 2017 and only just thought about this. Is it explained or?

9 Comments
2024/11/19
00:11 UTC

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Tatiana Maslany via her Instagram stories, November 18 2024

4 Comments
2024/11/18
23:24 UTC

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So I finally watched Orphan Black Echoes. (Review)

After watching Orphan Black, the OG, I watched Echoes and it didn’t disappoint me, but I did have issues with it. Let’s start with the story. I just felt that the story had hardly to do much with Orphan Black, slip in cloning, slip in two characters from the OG (Felix felt like fan service to me), while Delphine did serve a purpose and label it Orphan Black. I thought the story was quite predictable. But it wasn’t bad at all. The problem with the writing lay more with the characters, rather than the story imo.

The story was pretty well written, it was not as good as the OG of course, not by a long shot. But then again we didn’t really get the opportunity of course, it only got one season and was cancelled. I get my suspicions why cause we’re in this “woke” era, where people will just bash anything with strong female characters for example. It was more intelligently written than the Acolyte for example, which was also cancelled for being “woke”. God, I hate what they did with that term.

Now the problem for me lay with the characters. Almost all female characters were strong female characters, while the men were like these beta men, so that female characters would look stronger in comparison. Nothing wrong with beta men, but if you have to resort by turning them into cowards for example, like this mercenary who worked for Darrow who really pales in comparison to Emily, his former partner, then you’re just not good at writing men. While Orphan Black had well-written men and women.

For sure Orphan Black was mostly female focused, but it did have great male characters like Felix and Art. They were strong male characters and I loved them, while in Echoes they even make fun of male characters by taunting Lucy to date a Cisgender man. It clearly wasn’t written for a person like me. At least that’s what it felt like. I could relate to some characters like Xander and Charlie. You don’t have to be female to relate to a female character imo. I’m disabled and so is Charlie and her struggles. Yeah, I could see myself in her to a point.

So, my last issue was that it was in a futuristic setting and that’s certainly a me problem. I preferred the more grounded setting in Orphan Black, rather than the setting of Echoes. I also felt that the ending of the season wasn’t very climactic, though great pity about what happened to Jules as she was certainly my favourite character, but who knows where it could have led to, cause I do think it deserved a second season. Call it giving the show the benefit of the doubt. Thanks for reading this if you made it all through.

11 Comments
2024/11/14
00:22 UTC

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S5 episode 1, does anyone know how they filmed the night time scenes of Sarah in the first few mins

I think it looks like grading on very low lighting but my partner thinks it was filmed at night. To me it looks too light to be night time, it’s like dusk or very early morning and graded to look like moonlight because of the amount of details on everything. Does anyone know of any behind the scenes footage from that specific scene?

2 Comments
2024/11/12
20:33 UTC

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Stupid Question But...

hey! so im tryna find a way to download all the episodes of Orphan Black (all 5 seasons). if I can’t get all, that's totally ok!! I'd be happy with just a few, tbh i mostly just wanna make some scene packs for edits n stuff 🖤 any tips on how I could do that?
Thank ya'll for your help!! <3 <3

3 Comments
2024/11/11
20:33 UTC

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Orphan Black comics

I was trying to find out if anyone has any good options to get the comics of ‘crazy science’ and ‘Helsinki’ cause I got the main series and ‘Deviations’ digitally. So if someone could help me with that, that would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Edit: Found it, but thx to everyone for responding.

5 Comments
2024/11/08
19:03 UTC

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Orphan Black: Echos is GONE from AMC+ WTF?

So, I sit down for lunch and turn on AMC to continue my half watched episode (I honestly do not remember which one I was in) and it's not only NOT cued up - but absolutely MISSING from AMC+ completely?!

I realize that it's not coming back for a 2nd season, but I wasn't done watching season 1!

What the actual hell?

https://preview.redd.it/lo4ohfvp8dyd1.jpg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db5cb39712616bb475090a0882661bf363007d0c

Update: I reached out to AMC+ via chat. They made it sound like it was supposed to still be there and they would have tech look into it. From the responses - I just feel like they had no idea whats going on.

https://preview.redd.it/v7vre7174iyd1.jpg?width=834&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdf252c2257f4209faedb9733817b1530c7e8ada

18 Comments
2024/11/01
22:27 UTC

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How does Felix afford his apartment?

Sorry if this has been asked before. New fan of the show here (I got AMC+ last month just for shudder and happened to finally give OB a try), on season 3, kind of losing track of the plot (farm boy is part of a seperate set of the clones???) but still enjoying the show.

What I find more confusing than anything else is how they afford this huge apartment when nobody on the show seems to have a job lol.

17 Comments
2024/11/01
07:42 UTC

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Struggling with Plot Issues

Watching Orphan Black for the first time...was anyone else not bothered by the same plot elements being repeated over and over? Like how many times does poor Kira need to be kidnapped? When will Sarah stop rushing into dangerous situations by herself? I'm on season 5, and at this point I'm only watching because I hate giving up on a show.

I had heard good things about this show, but it really seems to lack the intelligence that a lot of my other favorite shows have.

20 Comments
2024/10/31
05:30 UTC

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My little wrap-up of the show

I'm adding the spoiler tag just in case (main show).

All in all, it was an entertaining watch. I picked it up because it's one of my mother's favourite and I gave it a chance.

Though, as things progressed, I got annoyed by some things. Don't get me wrong, the characters were adorable and the ending was worth the wait,

But it just felt like each season (or even half-season) the writers just fabricated a new layer on the go. To the point I believe, if we had to chart a diagram of all Orphan Black villains and factions, that'd be difficult to read.

Some of the plot lines were forgettable: for example the proletheans, their link to Tomás isn't explained at all, and it just takes one big fire to put them down. Just goes to show how badass Helena is.

The endgame in s4 and s5 was a bit more structured at least, but I really have doubt these arcs were planned from the start 😝

Oh and my personal pet peeve, how they keep calling the gene experimentation results "the Science"... It's ridiculous and no one does it in real life, or so I hope. "Omg noo the bad guy has taken all the science with them!!!" Really sounds like children's talk.

Anyway... Just wanted to see if anyone shares my ramblings 🥲 cheers!

5 Comments
2024/10/28
21:51 UTC

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Where to watch Orphan Black?

I've been looking across the internet for Orphan Black but seems to be hard to find a place to watch it.

Any tips on where to watch it for free or what streaming platforms carry it/which countries Netflix carry it?

23 Comments
2024/10/27
14:47 UTC

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Was it Vivi who ****** Sturgis?

It seemed like Vivi killed Sturgis and obviously Cosima was the one being accused of it but by the time S1 E9 rolls around, Jaysara doesn’t seem to want to arrest Vivi and nobody even mentions the fact that she’s the one who killed him? I’m a bit confused, here. I haven’t listened to any further episodes so I’m currently still on S1 E9, any clarification would be appreciated

3 Comments
2024/10/24
10:39 UTC

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Did anyone tell Adele about the clones?

I mean after seeing her brother’s foster sister’s many “twin” sisters, she was bound to find out.

6 Comments
2024/10/20
22:11 UTC

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Painting of Cosima at Felix's art show (Greek goddesses / sestras)

An old painting in my chest drawer and guess who it is!!! The goddess of wisdom and deep thought! Thought I'd post it here before I doze off. I had bought this painting from my friend but there's a website if you wanna get a print.

If you wanna revisit the art show --

https://youtu.be/9YLpJ9-Onfs?si=ZTgIxHdkIlh8uFam

https://youtu.be/zpf69ZnjCxk?si=nFwm_U_2_pQmNe32

7 Comments
2024/10/17
21:00 UTC

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Echoes worth watching?

I hate watching a cancelled tv show that was left on a cliffhanger. Was Orphan Black Echoes worth watching? Did it end on a cliffhanger we will never get answers to? I don’t think I could have handle Orphan Black ending after one of its season finales. Yikes!

21 Comments
2024/10/16
23:05 UTC

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Sestras of Orphan Black 🖤

1 Comment
2024/10/16
10:51 UTC

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Imagine if they found a way to clone Kendall.

Like they get a LEDA and CASTOR fetus and they kill the castor. Then it gets absorbed by LEDA and then bang bang, Kendall. I’m failing at Science so apologies if this isn’t how it works.

Also if Kendall didn’t absorb her brother, would she look like the LEDAs?

1 Comment
2024/10/15
14:51 UTC

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Just finished the series, wtf happened to Kira's dad? Did I miss something?

????

22 Comments
2024/10/15
14:10 UTC

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Do you think there will be some kind of continuation of Orphan Black through different media?

They can't just cancel Echoes and leave us there. Cause we all know that might be the end of the franchise.

EDIT: TO BE CLEAR I MEANT MEDIA AFTER ECHOES.

15 Comments
2024/10/12
22:38 UTC

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Are the Cousin Clones (from the audio series) Leda?

It seems like a whole seperate experiment from LEDA.

6 Comments
2024/10/12
22:36 UTC

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New Clone Swaps

Krystal as Helena :

"eww , Get ME Out Of This"

no . On an actual note . Krystal as Sarah .

1 Comment
2024/10/12
21:39 UTC

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Clone- swapping (random thought)

CAN YOU BELIEVz Sarah can nail clone-swapping with Allison , KRystal full on dialogue but

as Cosima is afraid to talk because she might be figured out .

3 Comments
2024/10/12
21:30 UTC

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What’s Important to LEDA and CASTOR

I’m rewatching the show for the third or fourth time, and I noticed something on this rewatch that has never bothered me before, but it does now.

Orphan Black is a sci-fi horror show, which means the characters are faced with horrifying and grotesque situations all the time.

The LEDA clones are infertile by design, and that piece of their genetic makeup also causes a respiratory malfunction. Most of them are horrified and devastated when they find out they can’t have children.

The CASTOR clones cause infertility (not sure if that’s by design?), and that piece of their genetic makeup also causes mental decline and instability. Most of them are horrified at this prospect, but the show focuses more on the horror that when a woman has sex with a CASTOR clone, that renders her infertile.

It feels almost like the show is saying “the most horrifying thing that can happen to a woman is infertility while the most horrifying thing that can happen to a man is mental decline. A woman’s womb is the most important thing about her, while a man’s brain is the most important thing about him.”

This feels like a stretch even as I’m typing it, but that undercurrent makes me a little uncomfortable. Has anyone else felt that while watching?

9 Comments
2024/10/12
16:31 UTC

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show help

I was just wondering, where i could possibly download the entire series in mp4 format if it still exists, i lost my old files of the first three seasons and i’ve been scouring all over in torrent sites to find a download of the show in good mp4 format, so if anyone knows where I could possibly get a link or a drive, i would like to know. Thank you!

11 Comments
2024/10/08
03:56 UTC

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