I gave up after several episodes because it was more about the actress's
gymnastics of playing the multiple roles and somewhere the storyline was
being lost. Though she is very talented I found the shtick old after a
while.
On 12/22/2013 09:31 AM, TurquoiseB wrote:
*/This is another one I have to thank my brother for. Back during my
commuting-to-Paris period, this Canadian Scifi series crossed my
radar, but I just didn't have the time to invest in it. My bad.
Following his recent year-in-review review, I finally did. My good.
It's better than most American Scifi series (which is not saying a
fuckuvalot), and up there with other Canadian TV Scifi efforts like
"Continuum," "Lost Girl," and "Charlie Jade."
The basic plot revolves around street hustler named Sarah Manning, who
finds herself on a Toronto Metro platform one day, trying to get away
from her abusive boyfriend so she can get back together with her
daughter Kyra, who she left in the care of her foster mother Mrs. S
(played by the always-wonderful Maria Doyle Kennedy). On the platform
in front of her, the street hustler sees a woman discarding her
upscale coat, placing her high-end bag on the platform, and stepping
to the edge, near the tracks. Concerned, she walks up and, as the
other woman turns around, finds herself looking at herself. The woman
is her exact double. Then the other woman leaps off the platform, in
front of the approaching train.
Sarah, being a street hustler, absconds with the woman's bag, ID, and
keys, and decides to try to hack her mystery double's life, even if
just to steal what she can find in her apartment. Little does she
realize that the double she winds up impersonating is a cop, and that
she's not the *only* double.
The real "meat" of this series (besides pretty good writing and
plotting) is the performance of Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany as
Sarah. This performance is partly due to the magic of CGI and modern
filmmaking, because often during the series there is not just one of
Tatiana Maslany onscreen. Sarah is a clone, and she's often onscreen
at the same time as several of her now-close-to-a-dozen other clones.
They've all got the same basic DNA. They all look the same, unless
they've dyed their hair like a remarkably bent one of them did. None
of them knew about each other until a few months ago, or knew that
they were clones. Now they're becoming not only self-aware, but (given
their odd circumstances) selves-aware, and thus they're becoming aware
that someone is stalking them, and trying to kill them all off.
It's pretty damned entertaining television. Not up to "Breaking Bad"
or "Rectify" standards by any means, but pretty damned entertaining TV
nonetheless.
And besides, there is Tatiana Maslany, giving a *dozen* rather
startling performances as an actor. All in one series. You really
don't get to see that every day.
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