BBC America Sci-Fi Mystery ‘Orphan Black’ Gratuitously Slams Thatcher as Enemy of the Poor

Brent Baker | April 19, 2014
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The sci-fi “dramatic conspiracy thriller,” Orphan Black, in which actress Tatiana Maslany plays the parts of five clones (so far), has its second season debut tonight on BBC America in the United States and on Space in Canada (both at 9 PM EDT).

In an episode during its first season, “Sarah Manning” visits the mother in Toronto who adopted her to learn of her childhood in Brixton, England, during the 1980s. The mother tells her: “England was burning. Maggie Thatcher firing on all barrels – at Ireland, the Falklands. She sacked social security, went after the immigrants, the poor, unions.”

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