Orphan Black Aftershow

Cafe Society
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Hated it.

BBC must have watched The Talking Dead and decided they needed an aftershow for Orphan Black. Yeah, it pretty much sucks.

The behind-the-scenes notes are a little interesting, but the pace is like molasses in January. While The Talking Dead has two text boxes in their behind-the-scenes segments, BBC’s offering spends too much time on one aspect. And they put an exclamation point after everything!

They also have two presenters; a perky female who bugged the crap out of me, and a hipster dude wearing a tux jacket, bow tie, and jeans. Enthusiasm is great, but these two seemed to be in awe of their celebrity guests. And of course they had to read tweets. Chris Hardwick reads the ones for TTD from his chair. In the Orphan Black aftershow the OMGCelebrities! blonde stood behind a computer. It just seemed cheesy.

And speaking of cheesy… The set! Crikey, it looked like something out of the early-'90s. I hated the video ‘bio-art’ on the walls, and the lighted dais. The chairs sucked, too. Honestly, it looked like something from a cable company’s community access studio.

I’m not going to be watching it.

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I didn’t see it the week of the premiere because I watched a later showing than the 9pm one (forgot it was starting until after the 9pm had started), but it bugs me that if you do record the 9pm showing they treat it and this lame aftershow as one 90 min chunk. So when I did record it at 9pm for ep 2 of the season, it came along with this dreck at the cost of extra space on my already overloaded DVR.

But yeah, it’s bad. As these shows almost always are when not hosted by Hardwick. These two chucklefucks (no woman, though, guess they already started tinkering) were no Hardwick, they weren’t even up to Jill Wagner “Woof” Watch level, and that’s not a very high bar.

Guess for ep 3 I’ll be recording a later showing because fuck this.