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The Antisocialism Of Sex
Season 4 | Episode 7 | Original Airdate: May 26th, 2016 | 10:00PM
Sarah regresses to old habits while struggling to cope with the consequences of her decisions – reconnecting with Beth on a dark night of the soul. Back at the lab, Cosima, haunted by vicious memories and news of Delphine, attempts a dangerous Hail Mary to find a cure. At the Hendrixes, Alison is more determined than ever to create normalcy for her kids. As she forges ahead with a birthday party, Donnie is caught in the Neolution crosshairs
Season 4 | Episode 7 | Original Airdate: May 26th, 2016 | 10:00PM
Sarah regresses to old habits while struggling to cope with the consequences of her decisions – reconnecting with Beth on a dark night of the soul. Back at the lab, Cosima, haunted by vicious memories and news of Delphine, attempts a dangerous Hail Mary to find a cure. At the Hendrixes, Alison is more determined than ever to create normalcy for her kids. As she forges ahead with a birthday party, Donnie is caught in the Neolution crosshairs
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Promo & Post Mortem Interview
“Whenever we do something like this, it’s never an easy decision to make,” says Orphan Black co-creator John Fawcett. “Obviously this was a big emotional decision, but also it’s a decision that puts everybody in a very difficult place. Where we thought we had a sure fire answer, now suddenly we don’t. In fact, we’ve got nothing. In fact, we’ve got less than what we began with. Not only is Kendall dead and her biology incinerated, but we’ve lost all of our research as well. And we are really now at the mercy of a very big new villain, which is Evie Cho, who has now presented herself.”
Making Kendall’s death even more difficult for the clone sestras is the fact that Sarah and Cosima went behind Siobhan’s back to involve Kendall in their plan, thereby putting her at risk. And then Sarah – mistakenly believing that Susan Duncan had abducted Kendall – destroyed all the last available DNA samples in Felix’s apartment. So Sarah must accept her portion of the blame for losing both her grandmother and her vital biology. And according to co-creator Graeme Manson, she is not the only one to blame.
“Cosima as well,” says Manson. “They can both take some heat for that. We know that Sarah is rash and makes mistakes. And so does Cosima in this instance. They’re the ones that decide to go ahead with this. They’re the ones that decide not to tell Siobhan. They own it.”
But again, why kill off Kendall now? “When we looked at this episode, we were looking at the shape of the whole season,” says Manson. “And we knew we wanted to do something really big in the middle. We really liked the same feel last season with episode 6 then and we wanted to make this a really big one. It’s an excellent episode written by Chris Roberts, who came up with a lot of the science around Kendall Malone’s cancer.”
Making Kendall’s death even more difficult for the clone sestras is the fact that Sarah and Cosima went behind Siobhan’s back to involve Kendall in their plan, thereby putting her at risk. And then Sarah – mistakenly believing that Susan Duncan had abducted Kendall – destroyed all the last available DNA samples in Felix’s apartment. So Sarah must accept her portion of the blame for losing both her grandmother and her vital biology. And according to co-creator Graeme Manson, she is not the only one to blame.
“Cosima as well,” says Manson. “They can both take some heat for that. We know that Sarah is rash and makes mistakes. And so does Cosima in this instance. They’re the ones that decide to go ahead with this. They’re the ones that decide not to tell Siobhan. They own it.”
But again, why kill off Kendall now? “When we looked at this episode, we were looking at the shape of the whole season,” says Manson. “And we knew we wanted to do something really big in the middle. We really liked the same feel last season with episode 6 then and we wanted to make this a really big one. It’s an excellent episode written by Chris Roberts, who came up with a lot of the science around Kendall Malone’s cancer.”
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