Orphan Black.
Smear some good "suicide and other comforts" for an opening scene but give it a little "Bizzaro" complex, and I was hooked. The show kicks off with a young girl, Sarah Manning, at a train station where she witnesses a suicide (Elizabeth (Beth) Childs) but strangely enough the girl is identical to her...
Sarah decides to assume the identity of Beth hoping to cash in on Beths fortune to start a new life with her daughter. The series then unfolds when Sarah realises she is one of several clones. However someone is killing off the clones one by one. The show is a crystal bead reflecting on moral implications of cloning and it's effect on personal identity.
Take a small portion of the "American Horror Story" or something brewing in a JJ Abrams series pot add a by far improved version of "Hostages" and stir with a similar suspense of "Revenge" without the soapie demeanour and you've got yourself one helluva show.
To add some icing on this cake you need a little bit of humour which is captured brilliantly with Sarahs foster brother Felix and then there's Alison who has a little bit of a "Desperate Housewives" drama going on. To come full circle you have the ever so steamy Paul...
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