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Orphan Black, season 2
Jun. 26th, 2016 08:18 pmI finished season 2 of Orphan Black! Which was fantastic and I am waiting impatiently for the first disc of season 3 to arrive, and! I am excited to learn that Netflix will be getting season 4 in the middle of July, which means I should be able to transition straight into it when I finish season 3!
Possibly with a pause in between to watch Only Yesterday, a Studio Ghibli movie that is finally coming to DVD in the US. I want to see all the Studio Ghibli films and I am slowly closing in on this goal.
But I digress! Back to Orphan Black.
One of the things I really like about this show is that it does such a good job humanizing the bad guys, and showing that they have soft sides and sadnesses - without utterly gutting the qualities that make them terrifying in the first place. They're dangerous and they're vulnerable, sometimes at the same time, and it's a complexity that isn't common in TV shows and especially isn't common with female characters, and it's a tour de force exhibition of the fact that creating fully human female characters means sometimes letting them be weak and small and broken.
Sarah's grit is all the more impressive because we sometimes see her cry, and break down, and not want to fight anymore.
And now for some ( Spoiler discussion )
Possibly with a pause in between to watch Only Yesterday, a Studio Ghibli movie that is finally coming to DVD in the US. I want to see all the Studio Ghibli films and I am slowly closing in on this goal.
But I digress! Back to Orphan Black.
One of the things I really like about this show is that it does such a good job humanizing the bad guys, and showing that they have soft sides and sadnesses - without utterly gutting the qualities that make them terrifying in the first place. They're dangerous and they're vulnerable, sometimes at the same time, and it's a complexity that isn't common in TV shows and especially isn't common with female characters, and it's a tour de force exhibition of the fact that creating fully human female characters means sometimes letting them be weak and small and broken.
Sarah's grit is all the more impressive because we sometimes see her cry, and break down, and not want to fight anymore.
And now for some ( Spoiler discussion )
