After two weeks of military base action it's nice to have a change of pace with an Alison centric episode. What should be a simple day of making her speech for School trustee becomes a farce where she has to free Donnie, give Cosima a urine sample and deal with her mother who refuses to hand over control of the 'Bubbles' store. In the process, Felix helps out and Cosima gets to be Alison.
Felix is often at his best when he is working with Sarah. This time has has to be in an organizational role. Jordan Gavaris plays the comedy scenes far better than the darker scenes that he was playing last week.
A lot of the funniest scenes revolve around Donnie Hendrix. The actor who plays Donnie is really good at comedy scenes, an unsung hero of the series. He spends most of the episode in the hands of Pouchie and his dry witty responses keep the episode alive. The contrast between white middle class Donnie and the Spanish, no nonsense drug dealers is as amusing as one would expect.
With the focus on Alison, Sarah and Helena are stuck in a Mexican bar, giving the characters a break from any plot heavy duties. Mrs. S arrives and has a violent reconciliation with Helena. It's nice that they wrapped this up early as an ongoing feud between Helena and Mrs. S would have quickly become tedious to watch.
The plot is also more Dyad focused this week. Delphine is back and determined to force Cosima to get a urine sample. At the same time, we get some more comedy scenes of Scott teaching Rachel how to play a farming board game. Rachel knows the codes and she will only tell Sarah.
Ultimately everything works out for Alison, bit with the added complication that Jason Kellerman kissed Cosima when she was posed as Alison. We also have the promise of a Rachel and Sarah encounter to come.
Orphan Black is often better when its focusing more on character interaction and less on a the twisting, turning conspiracy. This is one of the more character based episodes and therefore stronger.
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