Orphan Black: Season 1

2013

Created by John Fawcett, Graeme Manson
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10 episodes
Science Fiction

In an Emmy-winning role (or roles), Tatiana Maslany plays a streetwise hustler who investigates the death of a woman who looks... More

In an Emmy-winning role (or roles), Tatiana Maslany plays a streetwise hustler who investigates the death of a woman who looks just like her - a mystery that pulls her into a mind-bending conspiracy - in this five-season sci-fi series.

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Where to watch Orphan Black: Season 1

Orphan Black: Season 1 is available to stream in the... More United Kingdom now on Amazon Video and Apple TV Store and Google TV and Channel 4 and Sky Go and Microsoft.

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Orphan Black: Season 1 episodes

Natural Selection

Sarah, a streetwise hustler on the run from a lifetime... More of bad decisions, witnesses the suicide of a stranger who looks just like her. Sarah assumes her identity, hoping that cleaning out the dead woman’s bank account will solve all of her problems. Instead, the street smart chameleon is thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery. After taking on the new identity, Sarah quickly finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy and must race to find answers.

Instinct

With a body in her car and nowhere to turn,... More Sarah is forced to continue her con and earn “Beth” a second chance on the force. But with a killer on her tail, her only hope of finding answers lies with another apparent ‘identical,’ Alison.

Variation Under Nature

Rocked by the revelation that she and her fellow "Orphans"... More are clones, Sarah just wants to get her hands on the money and skip town. But Sarah’s fake detective ruse stretches thin when the cops find the body she buried and assign “Beth” to the case. As Sarah closes in on the killer, the hunter becomes the hunted.

Effects of External Conditions

Sarah realizes that the Orphans’ survival is going to take... More more than police work. But tracking the killer threatens Sarah’s long awaited reunion with her daughter, Kira. As Sarah gets closer to the killer, the killer gets closer to the truth – the ensuing showdown threatens to expose her ruse as a cop.

Conditions of Existence

When terrifying evidence suggests the Orphans are part of a... More sinister ongoing experiment, Sarah’s suspicions turn to Paul, Beth’s boyfriend. But her probing inadvertently triggers Paul’s own investigation, bringing him dangerously close to the truth. Meanwhile, paranoid Alison piles on a whole new level of complication.

Variations Under Domestication

Sarah’s hunt for answers is interrupted by a trip to... More the suburbs. Alison’s paranoia has boiled over, putting all the Orphans at risk. But when Sarah, Alison and Beth’s worlds dangerously collide, Sarah must decide who to trust with her secret.

Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner

With Paul missing, Sarah is forced to confront the conspiracy... More head on. But when Paul learns Sarah has kept essential information from him, the fragile trust between them threatens to shatter. Meanwhile, Cosima grows closer to Delphine and the dangerously fascinating Dr. Leekie.

Entangled Bank

Sarah's actions pit the Orphans against each other as she... More tries to plan her next move. As Paul tries desperately to cover up Sarah’s existence, Alison takes vengeance on her suspected monitor, which could cost her everything she holds dear.

Unconscious Selection

After Kira’s life is threatened, Sarah is on the warpath,... More but Dr. Leekie makes her think twice about her plans for revenge. Meanwhile, Cosima faces the truth about Delphine, forcing her to choose sides. Now, it’s up to Sarah to decide the killer’s fate, but the truth about where Sarah came from changes everything.

Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Sarah’s last chance to bring her nemesis back to sanity... More slips away as Art intervenes to get answers of his own. Meanwhile, the Orphans must decide whether to make peace with their creators, as Sarah is forced into a deadly confrontation with their enemy.

Orphan Black: Season 1 | Ratings & Reviews

94_%34 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
95_%85 reviews
Audience score rating

"It is, flat out, one of the most intriguingly entertaining new series of the year, and it’s so much more than pure entertainment. For a sci-fi series, there’s some real heft to it."

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Hollywood Reporter

"Other than enjoying Maslany in multiple characters, wigs and accents, there’s nothing so distinctive about the plot as to provide an incentive to hang around long enough to sort out all the gory details regarding who might want to eliminate them."

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Variety

"Orphan Black is a cool, clever show, and I don’t discount the possibility that it could become great, or at least excellent; but for now, both its tone and its premise seem worrisomely limited."

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Vulture

"Orphan Black is a quite watchable thriller that plunges its heroine into a murky world that almost seems designed to drive her mad."

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Huffington Post

"It's just as ridiculous as it sounds, chockablock with clichés, predictable exposition and some fairly whacked-out plot twists. But it doesn't matter because Orphan Black isn't so much about plot as it is performance, and as the series continues, the performances are pretty astonishing."

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Los Angeles Times

"By the end of the second episode, this tasty show starts to reveal that it is not just another identity-swapping story. Something creepily sci-fi is definitely going on."

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