Orphan Black - Season 3, Episode 07: Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate
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An orphan gets caught up in a deadly conspiracy after learning that she is a clone. Just as Sarah and her clone sisters were beginning to piece together the complex conspiracy behind the shadowy Dyad Institute, the discovery of Project Castor – a top-secret military project producing highly-trained male clones – throws their lives back into turmoil.
It's been a while since we had a good old clone club switcharoo, so watching Alison and Cosima juggle speeches and photo ops was a great call back to early Orphan Black days.
I pleaded for more "multilayered texture" to "lighten the mood," and as if part of some cruel trick, tonight's episode of Orphan Black obliges with an hour of paper-thin comic contrivances, all topped with a generous sprinkling of mawkish sentiment.
I think one of the most ingenious bits of storytelling here, though, was the ticking clock put on Donnie's nose (by none other than Pouchy, the guy who chopped off Vic's finger).
Sheila McCarthy as Alison's mom Connie was brilliant casting: Her overbearing, perfectionist ways spoke so much to Alison's composition and stressed-out mannerisms - a classic nature vs. nurture, if you will.
