Genetic history: Orphan Black's third season complicates its pulpy joys
The first season of Orphan Black was astonishing precisely because it was unexpected. It was a sci-fi show about clones led by con woman, high school drop-out, and single mother Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany). The plot kicked off with Manning witnessing a woman with her face throw herself in front of a train — and subsequently assuming the dead woman’s identity. The woman, a cop named Beth, has records of other women who all look the same as her and Sarah: clones, Sarah realizes. We soon get to know several of them: Helena (Russian, murderous, not totally sane, generally hungry, usually imprisoned; shared a womb with Sarah), Alison (tightly wound soccer mom), and Cosima (dope-smoking lesbian scientist). They must hide from a shadowy…
Source:: The Verge
