Orphan Black (Seasons 1–5)

Orphan Black (2013) is a Canadian sci-fi thriller — stream all seasons online on iFILM. Sarah is a street-smart hustler who watches a stranger step in front of a train, then realises with a jolt: the dead woman looks exactly like her. She takes the identity on a whim, and that one decision pulls her into something far larger than a simple con.

There are more women who share her face. Sarah starts finding them one by one, each with a different life, different fears, different secrets. Tatiana Maslany plays every one of them — five distinct characters, sometimes in the same scene — and makes each one fully real. It's the kind of performance that makes you forget the technical feat involved; you just believe every version of her.

Five seasons ran from 2013 to 2017, produced for BBC America by Temple Street Productions. The show earned Maslany a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2016 — long overdue recognition. Stream Orphan Black online on iFILM and watch one of genre TV's finest leads do work that most actors couldn't pull off once, let alone repeatedly.