This episode was very well balanced. It had some of the classic Orphan Black humour, a bunch of twists and turns, and a very tense sequence. There was a tie-in to the comics that I was not expecting. It has me very excited for the future of the show.
The humour in this episode springs from the place that it always does in Orphan Black; the Hendrix family. However, while their story was amusing, it was not just for comic relief or character development like the drug dealing arc was. In this episode, their storyline ties into the main mystery, and brings out new revelations around it. The Hendrixes and Felix go to investigate the fertility clinic that Beth went to, but Alison can not go in because she could be recognized as Beth. So, Felix and Donnie play a gay couple and go in. That makes this sequence of searching for answers hilarious. Once they do find the answers, it turns into a serious tie-in to the main story.
Rachel manages to get a message out, which sends all the other characters scrambling to get her. She deals with problems of her own.
Helena has a funeral for her frozen babies, then she leaves. I, for one, am very curious to see where she is going, and how the others will react to her departure. She is my favourite clone.
Cosima's role in this episode is just to examine every new piece of evidence in her lab. That's what she does in most episodes. I hope she has something else to do this season.
The final act of the episode centres around MK, Sarah, and Ferdinand. It is revealed that MK is actually a prominent character from the Helsinki comics. I should have seen this coming; it really does fit her character. But at the time of writing this review, the final issue of the Helsinki comic mini-series is not yet released, so I didn't realize that she was still alive. I nerd-ed out when it was first revealed that she is Vera Suominen. In the comics, Vera was a character who really leaped off the page. When I first read them, she really reminded me of Elliot from Mr. Robot; very similar internal monologue. In fact, the first issue of the Helsinki series really felt like Mr. Robot in the Orphan Black universe to me. MK was not really a character who leaped off the screen for me. I didn't see all that much to distinguish her from the other clones. Now that I know that she is Vera, she is much more interesting because I know from the comics what the inside of her head sounds like. I hope that they write comics showing Vera's point of view on these events. I would love to read more of her internal monologue as she ponders these events. Speaking of these events, Vera blames Ferdinand for Helsinki, so she puts him in a life or death situation. This leads to a very tense sequence with the three that I mentioned at the start of this monster of a paragraph.
I really liked this episode. It started to bring together all the plot threads, and proved to be a continuation for a character that I love and did not expect to see again, let alone here.
The humour in this episode springs from the place that it always does in Orphan Black; the Hendrix family. However, while their story was amusing, it was not just for comic relief or character development like the drug dealing arc was. In this episode, their storyline ties into the main mystery, and brings out new revelations around it. The Hendrixes and Felix go to investigate the fertility clinic that Beth went to, but Alison can not go in because she could be recognized as Beth. So, Felix and Donnie play a gay couple and go in. That makes this sequence of searching for answers hilarious. Once they do find the answers, it turns into a serious tie-in to the main story.
Rachel manages to get a message out, which sends all the other characters scrambling to get her. She deals with problems of her own.
Helena has a funeral for her frozen babies, then she leaves. I, for one, am very curious to see where she is going, and how the others will react to her departure. She is my favourite clone.
Cosima's role in this episode is just to examine every new piece of evidence in her lab. That's what she does in most episodes. I hope she has something else to do this season.
The final act of the episode centres around MK, Sarah, and Ferdinand. It is revealed that MK is actually a prominent character from the Helsinki comics. I should have seen this coming; it really does fit her character. But at the time of writing this review, the final issue of the Helsinki comic mini-series is not yet released, so I didn't realize that she was still alive. I nerd-ed out when it was first revealed that she is Vera Suominen. In the comics, Vera was a character who really leaped off the page. When I first read them, she really reminded me of Elliot from Mr. Robot; very similar internal monologue. In fact, the first issue of the Helsinki series really felt like Mr. Robot in the Orphan Black universe to me. MK was not really a character who leaped off the screen for me. I didn't see all that much to distinguish her from the other clones. Now that I know that she is Vera, she is much more interesting because I know from the comics what the inside of her head sounds like. I hope that they write comics showing Vera's point of view on these events. I would love to read more of her internal monologue as she ponders these events. Speaking of these events, Vera blames Ferdinand for Helsinki, so she puts him in a life or death situation. This leads to a very tense sequence with the three that I mentioned at the start of this monster of a paragraph.
I really liked this episode. It started to bring together all the plot threads, and proved to be a continuation for a character that I love and did not expect to see again, let alone here.
