Orphan Black
AmzPrime 2013 TV-MA
The label "TV-MA" fits this demi-drama ONLY with regards to the displays of visual material and vocabulary, but it definitely does NOT mean "MATURITY". This is yet another DNA-Drama that is attempting to manufacture a fiction based on the "what if" scenario of the production of multiple clones and distributing them throughout a populace, as some sort of experiment, most likely to do with the comparison/contrast of their lives. Therefore in reality this is an exposition on the nature/nurture debate, and it is obviously falling heavily on the side of nurture, while DNA-based research proponents would love nothing more than to prove that science wins and the nature of the molecule would reign supreme over that which is "learned".
The problem with this series...well, there are many actually...is that there is a continual barrage of insistent LGBtQ+++ Alphabet Soup incursion that is not only distracting and annoying, but completely unnecessary, and an obvious plant by the writers of said show. As in the main character with this foil...aka one homosexual friend that consistently and blazingly pre-dominates every single episode with his intrusion and near comical cliche' homosexuality.
The latest, and I have to say the last, episode that I will be watching of this juvenile creation, Ep. 3 of Season 1, had the homosexual friend "babysit", in which case the end resulted in both children being found by the responsible adult female in a state of cross-dressed clothing, the boy dressed in a nightclub dress complete with beads and makeup, and the little girl in a dad-shirt, tie, and a man-hat.
It does not take one long to understand exactly where this series is intending us to go, manipulated into believing that human biology and our future lies in the cellular selection of "the fittest" and the random selection of genetic material that will supposedly dictate our identification, and will of course include our tolerance of the same as acceptable and "normalized".
The show has a definite agenda that is easy enough to see. It took me 2.5 episodes to see it coming.
This reviewer is also without any need to dive further as well into the dramatic drawbacks of the show which depend on the tension between the protagonist and said homosexual friend, who consistently bicker over every step she is taking in her journey, and which he is privy to, as is necessary when being a "conscience" that must bring the dilemma to the surface because honestly, there would be no other way to hook us... the audience... into said drama without it. In other words, the "foil" is also the audience's foil. Ok, it's a clever writer's trick, and one that steadfastly escapes those who are regularly addicted to soap operas.
Negative 5 stars, if that's possible. Please do not waste your time.
- Agitatus
The label "TV-MA" fits this demi-drama ONLY with regards to the displays of visual material and vocabulary, but it definitely does NOT mean "MATURITY". This is yet another DNA-Drama that is attempting to manufacture a fiction based on the "what if" scenario of the production of multiple clones and distributing them throughout a populace, as some sort of experiment, most likely to do with the comparison/contrast of their lives. Therefore in reality this is an exposition on the nature/nurture debate, and it is obviously falling heavily on the side of nurture, while DNA-based research proponents would love nothing more than to prove that science wins and the nature of the molecule would reign supreme over that which is "learned".
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