Double, double, Krysten Ritter in trouble in the teaser for Orphan Black: Echoes
In the words of literature’s most famous parentless child, “Please, sir, I want some more.” If that's more Orphan Black, AMC’s way ahead of you.
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Six years after the finale of Orphan Black, the Canadian sci-fi mystery that showed off the many sides of Tatiana Maslany, a new clone is emerging from the pod of pink goo for another mystery. Krysten Ritter takes over for Maslany in the first teaser for Orphan Black: Echoes, “a unique copy” of the original series—which is to say, a spin-off series. The series launches in 2024, but AMC is getting all clones aboard the hype train by releasing the first teaser.
Unsurprisingly, there’s not a lot of information about what this show is, what it’s about, and how it connects to the overall Orphan Black universe. Here’s what we do know: Krysten Ritter plays a neuroscientist named Eleanor. A devoted wife and mother, Eleanor is also a workaholic devoted to her research. Yet, as we can see, she’s also having flashbacks to a murder scene and waking up in a pod of pink goo. In addition to Ritter’s Eleanor, Hiroyuki Liao from Barry stars as self-made billionaire named Darros, who runs the Darros Foundation. We imagine that the organization is behind the aforementioned pink goo.
Created by Fear The Walking Dead writer Anna Fishko, Orphan Black: Echoes will see the return of John Fawcett, the co-creator of the original Orphan Black, as director of the sequel series. While it’s unclear what connection this show has to the larger Orphan Black series, Variety reported last year that Echoes is not a reboot. It’s a new story set in the same universe. Does this mean we’ll be treated to a little Maslany? Only time will tell.
Orphan Black: Echoes premieres on AMC, AMC+, and BBC America in 2024.
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I don’t know if this will be any good, but if anyone misses the original series, there were two great podcast seasons that take place after the series. Very well produced. Maslany reprised her role in the first season along with playing the voices of the rest of the cast, and for the second season pretty much the whole cast comes back.
I’m just about to finish up my rewatch of the original, so the timing of this is pretty nice. My first thought is that ‘Echoes’ has a glossier feel to it; OG ‘Orphan Black’ was a little grungier and more lo-fi.
It’s one of my favorite shows that I don’t think is actually a very good show. Like, I really enjoyed watching it, and the cast was phenomenal; but from a somewhat objective standpoint, the narrative was disjointed and nonsensical a lot of the time. But I love it anyway.
Like so many other shows, it suffered from the fact that the writers didn’t really know where to go with the overarching plot. But the sestras made up for it.
Yeah. The characters and situations were so much fun (and Maslany so goddamn amazing) that it was easy to kind of handwave away the plot nonsense. I still don’t know who the hell the Neolutionists were or what they wanted.
It meandered for a couple of seasons, but they really stuck the landing I thought
Ever since her Breaking Bad arc, I’ve thought Ritter was a very good actor. She’s got chops in genre acting under her belt so this should turn out OK. I think she can handle multiple roles, so hopefully she gets a chance to do what Maslany did. If were not going to get more Jessica Jones, this is acceptable.
This appears to fix the biggest problem with the original series.People loved Orphan Black, but hated that it was set in present day with normal looking buildings.Problem solved!
I love Krysten Ritter but she’s got some big shoes to fill.