Orphan Black 3x02 Transitory Sacrifices of Crisis

 

Remember when last week I was hella confused by pretty much everything that was happening in the Orphan Black season premiere due to my inabilty to rewatch the first two seasons before the new one began? And remember how I said that by the end of the episode everything was pretty clear and I wad good to go forward? Yeah, forget that. It seems like my confusion is not over yet. Oh no, in fact, by the looks of it, it’s only just beginning! Honestly, it even made me question whether I should be writing these reviews at all, because I imagine after a while it will be pretty tiring if my reaction to everything will be something like „okay I have no idea why that’s happening but it’s alright, I can roll with it!”... But for now, I’m gonna write this review and then see where the next episode takes me. Also, please do point out if I’m talking bullshit or completely misunderstand something that should be obvious. I promise I will be extremely grateful because I WANT to enjoy this show to the fullest, and I feel like much of my annoyance with this episode was rooted in not remembering simple but essential details about the show’s mythology.

But first thing’s first: last week I mentioned that I don’t know any of the Castor clones’ names and netiher can I distinguish them from each other, so I’m just gonna call all of them Clone Boy and hope that it won’t get too confusing. Well, most of this problem was solved by this episode so just recapping it real quick for my own benefit: Scarface is called Rudy, he’s the one who was locked in by Dyad but was broken out by his brother in the previous episode. Said brother is the one with the Pornstache, also known as Seth, and they’re the ones doing all sorts of weird shit to random women, including that one Leda clone from last week. Then there’s Mark the Prolethean, who made a very brief appearence at the end of this episode but has yet to truly come into play, and another, fourth one at the military base where they’re keeping Helena. His name I still don’t know but for now it doesn’t seem like I have to, he hasn’t even spoken a single line yet if I remember correctly. So now that I can call them by their proper names, I can continue with the fact that Rudy and Seth opened this episode by doing some weird shit to a random woman, which is nothing new from them but it was still pretty fucking unsettling to watch. The good news is that she came out of it alive – but I’m getting way ahead of myself here.

Orphan Black 3x01 The Weight of This Combination

Lovers of fantastic TV and otherworldly acting rejoice, everyone’s favourite clone-drama is finally back, and by the looks of it, it’s about to get even more complicated! The last time we saw the Leda-sisters, Sarah has only barely escaped from Dyad, Cosima was still dying, Helena got kidnapped, Rachel got a pencil put through her eye, and Alison was... being Alison? I don’t remember anything particularly terrible happening to her in the finale, which is good because she’s my favourite and God knows she’s been through a lot in season 2. And then there was of course the big twist at the very end of the episode when we found out about the existence of Project Castor, a group of male clones who all look suspiciously like Creepy Mark from the Prolethean ranch.

That’s more than enough to make anyone crazy excited about next season, right? Well, I’m afraid here’s the part where most fans are going to get angry at me, but honestly, it didn’t make me excited at all, for various reasons. First of all, the twist didn’t shock me as much as it seemed to shock most people. I was kinda just like, okay, there are male clones too, so what? Plus I never really gave half a shit about Mark so there wasn’t even that to make me excited about getting to know his „brothers”. Just imagine if it was revealed that Felix was a clone instead. Now THAT would have been amazing. Also, by the end of season 2 I kinda got really confused about all the different groups and people and organizations and who wants to do what with which clones, that I was honestly more worried about season 3 than excited. I mean, how am I gonna enjoy this show going forward if I have zero idea about what’s going on? So I made this plan to rewatch the first two seasons and make notes of it so I can finally get everything straight, but then I didn’t, which meant that I basically went into this premiere completely lost. Thankfully, the „previously on” segment was unusually useful and it helped me remember a lot of things that have happened, so by the end of the episode I felt like I was good to go forward again. The reason I’m telling you this is so that maybe you’ll be more understanding if half of my review is going to be clueless ramblings and me wondering about why certain things are happening. I promise I’ll be more on top of things by the time the next episode rolls around.