From Caroline Framke of the AV Club:

Instinct
For those of you keeping track at home, the subject of BBC America’s Orphan Black ad campaign still hasn’t come up by the end of this second episode. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll admit that I was spoiled, but I am not assuming the same of everyone reading this review. I will, however, say that spoiling the story for an easier ad campaign does a disservice to the show, which continues to walk a fine line with extraordinary subtlety and confidence. It’s a shame BBC America doesn’t trust Orphan Black enough to let its mysteries unravel, because Orphan Black is proving more than capable of pulling them off. Read more.

From Tom Gardiner of Three If By Space:

Orphan Black 102 “Instinct” Recap & Review – Answers and Questions
Episode two wastes no time placing us right back in the action at the very moment where the explosive premiere left us hanging. The mystery gets even more complicated, the tension is amped up, and Sarah meets even more “identicals.” Read more.

From Meredith Jacobs of the Examiner:

‘Orphan Black’ ‘Instinct’ review: The plot thickens
Orphan Black” is the show to watch Saturday nights, and that continued to be true with the Saturday, April 6 installment, episode 2, “Instinct,” in which Sarah began to get a better idea of just how many look-alikes are out there of her. Read more.

From g33kpron.com:

Orphan Black: shockingly Canadian, shockingly alright.
So far, I am really intrigued Orphan Black. I like the concept and I like Sarah’s actor, Tatiana Maslany. Tatiana does a really great job of portraying the wayward, rough-around-the-edges Sarah and seems pretty confident taking acting risks. For a Canadian-made show with a Canadian cast, this show is pretty edgy. There’s sex, full nudity (I can’t remember the last time, outside of Queer as Folk, that I saw a character’s totally naked ass on Canadian television) violence, graphically detailed corpses, sex work, cocaine… really, the list goes on. Read more.

Orphan Black, Space – “Instinct”
With a body in her car and nowhere to turn, Sarah (Tatiana Maslany, Picture Day) is forced to continue her con and earn “Beth” (Maslany) a second chance on the force. But with a killer on her tail, her only hope of finding answers lies with another twin, Alison (Maslany).

W5, CTV – “Tax Me If You Can”
W5 investigates the taxman who goes after ordinary Canadians while ignoring foreign tax havens.

From Lauren Davis of io9:

Orphan Black teaches you to steal your clone’s identity for fun and profit
Last (episode), our favorite new clone Sarah came face to face with Beth, her apparent twin, and stole her identity. But stealing money from your doppelgänger turns out to be more complicated than dying your hair and affecting a Canadian accent, especially when she’s hiding a few secrets of her own. Orphan Black delivered an hour of clones, cops, puke, and mocking the people at your own funeral. Read more.

From BBC America:

Interview: Dead on ‘Downton,’ Maria Doyle Kennedy Resurfaces on ‘Orphan Black’
At last month’s BBC Worldwide Showcase event in Liverpool, I spoke with the actress about her new role, balancing a career as a musician with her acting work, and whether she’s kept up with the death parade over at the Abbey. Read more.

From Krista Smith of Vanity Fair:

Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany on Growing Up in Rural Canada and Playing an Intense Soccer Mom
I think the first audition was Sarah exclusively, and then I think I might have done like a “Sarah as” scene. By the time we were at the screen-test stage, it was five different characters. It was a lot of switching back and forth right in front of a roomful of execs. It was the weirdest audition, but so much fun. Read more.

From Anna Pinkert of Spinoff Online:

On BBC America’s Orphan Black, a Game of Cops, Robbers & Clones
The pilot has a bit of a slow start, but it works to set up two characters’ backstories simultaneously. We already know from the BBC promotional material that Sarah and Beth are clones, not twins – but Sarah doesn’t know that yet; she hasn’t even had a full conversation with one of her doubles. Sarah is so distrustful of everyone that it almost makes sense that her gut instinct would be to hide out as another person and go on the run instead of using Ancestry.com to figure out if she and Beth just had the same deadbeat parents. Read more.

From Critics At Large:

Orphan Black and the New Face of Canadian Science Fiction
This past Sunday, Orphan Black aired its first episode, and on April 21, Showcase’s hit time-travel drama Continuum premieres its second season on Canadian airwaves; both shows are not only produced and filmed in Canada, but (with an appalling deficiency of that renowned Canadian humility) are also set here as well. Read more.