This is a wildly over the top TV show that's origins are rooted in the premise, "What if you saw someone who looks like you kill themselves right in front of you?" Then off of that origin the show spins into a more wildly crazy - but in no way out of control way- story: that of multiple clones of one person. The whole cloning story is handled with great care and technique that make this a - more or less - sci-fi show and for that I'm grateful. But don't get me wrong the scenarios the characters are placed in are extreme to the max but the show works despite this because I found the characters wholly interesting and not stupid. That not stupid part plays a huge bonus in this show, believe me.
This is one of the first shows I've seen in a long time where I really liked all of the secondary characters as well as the main characters and they all play off of each other very well. Ultimately this is the Tatiana Maslany's show as she plays multiple clones of herself with all sorts of accents, mannerisms, and personalities that it really does start to boggle the mind as more clones become introduced in other episodes and she takes on more characters - all different. She is helped along the way by an incredible wardrobe department that really constructs the different clones with their wardrobe. It is the actors, and characters they play, who really make this show click. They really invest themselves into the story and the characters so much so that the acting and dialogue between become more fascinating than the cloning storyline, which is a good thing as the the writers know this and write towards that. Characters sell this show and the writers really like the interaction every character has towards each other. This is not Star Trek in any way and that's a good thing. Science nor ideas are the star of this show, characters move everything along in all the over the top scenes and story line. Looking forward to season two.
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