With the snoozefest that is the annual Emmy Awards, what better time than to recognize the best acting performance and series of 2013 with a review of the DVD/Blu-ray release of BBC America’s Orphan Black? It’s a shame that there is not one major award show that praises the best acting of the year–pitting the best of films against the best of TV and best actors against actresses. Our win for 2013 “all-around, male or female” would be easily handed to Tatiana Maslany for her too-many-to-count characterizations on Orphan Black’s inaugural season. If you watch the garden variety of shows and performers that were nominated for Emmys this year (and every year ineptly seem to be nominated for Emmys ad nauseam) and you don’t know what we mean, then now is the time to review for yourself this ground-breaking dramatic science fiction series on DVD and Blu-ray.
We previously reviewed here at borg.com at the beginning of the season here and at the end of season one here. In the latter we listed the five major roles played by Maslany. For our “best performance, male or female” of the year award we would nominate first, “Maslany as Sarah Manning,” along with “Maslany as Alison Hendrix,” and “Maslany as Cosima Niehaus.” For our “best supporting performance of the year, male or female” award we’d nominate “Maslany as Helena,” but then we’d add some other roles we hadn’t mentioned earlier that would help cinch the “best all around, male or female” award for Maslany.
