It's not very clear to me what this has to do with Orphan Black or its legacy, except for an adult Kira as the main character and a few guest appearances of Felix, while repeating some plot lines. Whereas Felix is in a terrible, terrible mask making it impossible for him to do any facial expressions, similar with Delphine's short stint later in the series.
The story is about printing human tissue mainly in form of organs but as that technology progresses to print entire humans as well for a very selfish reason of Kira. Printing, you know, like copying as in cloning. That's the connection between these two shows and I do not think this is sufficient enough or believable for that matter. Frankly, it doesn't add anything to the existing universe which is too bad. But it can't really either because the original ended with an "everybody lived happily ever after" and this show wants to tell us otherwise regarding Kira.
The main villain is rather boring, his reasoning to be the villain is nonsense (from what we gather throughout) and very uninteresting. The actor himself has no gravitas either to his role and while the other roles are bad at worst, he is the only direct miscast in my opinion. Speaking of, add in an odd casting. Personally, I don't mind Ritter (main), but Jogia (side character) has always been bad and his character is pointless later in the series. Whittaker's side char only enables our main character. Jones (guest appearances) was among the weakest characters in 19-2 (although her character story was..."good"), here she follows the same level of acting. Diamond (regular "guest appearance") has always been rather one dimensional and cardboard-y and can he stop flossing his damn teeth while driving? It's a disgusting character trait. It's not exactly scraping the bottom of the barrel, but it isn't that far away either.
Maslany on the other hand is nowhere to be seen, only name dropped a few times with lame excuses why none of her characters are in this. Can you imagine, as Sarah not a single phone call or message with Kira the entire season? That is just weird and very telling.
If you detach this whole show from the name Orphan Black it wouldn't even be that bad. Taking the name away wouldn't change anything in the story at all either. It has an interesting idea that isn't too far fetched from the relatively near future. The weird casting decisions mentioned above aside, the other characters in this are fine and there is a certain chemistry between them. While the writing isn't close to the level of OB (when it was good) and clearly has its issues, it isn't terrible. Quite the opposite, it can be enjoyable to watch despite its shortcomings. The attachment to the name Orphan Black, however, is holding this show back from standing on its own as it sets expectations it cannot and doesn't want to uphold whatsoever. But then without the attachment you probably wouldn't watch it. So...it's marketing.
OB: E is a low budget, mediocre show with a good idea but cheap execution not worthy of the name Orphan Black, setting itself up for disappointment with the viewer.
Review by ds1BlockedParentSpoilers2023-11-05T17:47:44Z
It's not very clear to me what this has to do with Orphan Black or its legacy, except for an adult Kira as the main character and a few guest appearances of Felix, while repeating some plot lines. Whereas Felix is in a terrible, terrible mask making it impossible for him to do any facial expressions, similar with Delphine's short stint later in the series.
The story is about printing human tissue mainly in form of organs but as that technology progresses to print entire humans as well for a very selfish reason of Kira. Printing, you know, like copying as in cloning. That's the connection between these two shows and I do not think this is sufficient enough or believable for that matter. Frankly, it doesn't add anything to the existing universe which is too bad.
But it can't really either because the original ended with an "everybody lived happily ever after" and this show wants to tell us otherwise regarding Kira.
The main villain is rather boring, his reasoning to be the villain is nonsense (from what we gather throughout) and very uninteresting. The actor himself has no gravitas either to his role and while the other roles are bad at worst, he is the only direct miscast in my opinion.
Speaking of, add in an odd casting. Personally, I don't mind Ritter (main), but Jogia (side character) has always been bad and his character is pointless later in the series. Whittaker's side char only enables our main character. Jones (guest appearances) was among the weakest characters in 19-2 (although her character story was..."good"), here she follows the same level of acting. Diamond (regular "guest appearance") has always been rather one dimensional and cardboard-y and can he stop flossing his damn teeth while driving? It's a disgusting character trait. It's not exactly scraping the bottom of the barrel, but it isn't that far away either.
Maslany on the other hand is nowhere to be seen, only name dropped a few times with lame excuses why none of her characters are in this. Can you imagine, as Sarah not a single phone call or message with Kira the entire season? That is just weird and very telling.
If you detach this whole show from the name Orphan Black it wouldn't even be that bad. Taking the name away wouldn't change anything in the story at all either. It has an interesting idea that isn't too far fetched from the relatively near future. The weird casting decisions mentioned above aside, the other characters in this are fine and there is a certain chemistry between them. While the writing isn't close to the level of OB (when it was good) and clearly has its issues, it isn't terrible. Quite the opposite, it can be enjoyable to watch despite its shortcomings.
The attachment to the name Orphan Black, however, is holding this show back from standing on its own as it sets expectations it cannot and doesn't want to uphold whatsoever. But then without the attachment you probably wouldn't watch it. So...it's marketing.
OB: E is a low budget, mediocre show with a good idea but cheap execution not worthy of the name Orphan Black, setting itself up for disappointment with the viewer.