From Jill Lepore of the New Yorker:
The History Lurking Behind “Orphan Blackâ€
“Orphan Black,†whose third season begins this week, is the only show on television where you’ll hear this line: “Enjoy your oophorectomy!†The science-fiction series, which airs in the United States on BBC America, is filmed in Ontario and set, oh, somewhere nearby, right about now, in a world where doctors surgically remove the eggs from women’s bodies, freeze them, defrost them, and implant them in the uteruses of other women, or, sometimes, of the same women; sometimes they remove whole ovaries. It depends. The thing is: there are a lot of women. The show’s lush with them. It’s shocking. Continue reading.