‘Orphan Black’ Fans Will Finally Get Their Much Anticipated Season 6 In The Form Of Audiobooks

When Orphan Black aired its final episode back in August 2017 after five at-times brilliant and always intense seasons, fans of women-fronted, story-driven sci-fi were devastated. After all, there were so many loose ends left cruelly dangling. Would Sarah get her GED and settle down? Would Cosima and Delphine (Evelyne Brochu) find dozens, hundreds, even thousands more clones? Would Helena’s babies grow up to have awesome superpowers? These are just a few of the questions fans were left with—and a few we may still get answers to now that an Orphan Black audio series is on the way.

The digital fiction startup Serial Box has secured a 10-episode follow-up series to the BBC America show that will feature both voice and text elements to be released later this summer. Tatiana Maslany will return to voice all of the sestras, which is even better. Titled Orphan Black: The Next Chapter, the series will pick up eight years in the future from where the original show left off, giving us a way back into the Clone Club we all know and love.

Serial Box and Temple Street, the company behind Orphan Black, have been keeping their cards close to the chest when it comes to what exactly we have to look forward to with the follow-up, but they did tease a serious update to the Cophine storyline, which is a major relief.

The great thing about the Orphan Black Season 5 finale was that it left the door open for projects like this, and perhaps that was the intention. While we lost some incredibly memorable and important characters—we love you forever, Mrs. S!—the gang is still mostly intact, each of them with their own journeys to embark upon. Picking up with them nearly a decade later means there will be a resolution to each of those journeys in some way or another and offers The Next Chapter‘s writers some serious fodder for some fantastic storytelling.

For instance, Helena’s twins will now be eight years old, roughly the same age as Charlotte, the Project Leda clone who was meant to play a big part in a new era of Neolution. Will the twins aid in fighting against the bad guys? Will they manifest special powers, especially given that their mother wasn’t totally normal either? (And that’s putting it lightly.)

What about Alison? Was she content to return to the role of diligent housewife or will she and Donnie be facing a whole new crop of problems? Will Sarah have realized that it’s OK to stay in one place with Kira and Felix and her sisters, that she doesn’t have to be on the run all the time in order to escape feeling her feelings?

Cosima and Delphine perhaps had the most ambitious plans as of the series finale. Heading off to administer the cure to as many clones as they can find, something tells me that their journey won’t have been the easiest. Chances are, not all the sestras they’ll have come across over the years will have been ready or willing to listen to what they have to say, and even though Susan Duncan is now gone, something tells me there will be other Neolutionists keen to capitalize on her creation.

The bad guys at Dyad may have been defeated in “To Right the Wrongs of Many,” but as we know, there’s always a new villain just around the corner waiting to swoop in. Hopefully this one left the sisters alone for a while to enjoy some much-needed and well-earned peace and quiet so that they’ll be ready for a fight when we catch up with them again in The Next Chapter.

While there’s no definitive release date set just yet, we do know that the first chapter will be free, with subsequent episodes costing $1.99 and a full season pass to offered somewhere around the $13.99 price point. That’s a bargain for any content, but for a chance to reunite with our favorite clones? It’s a downright bargain.

Jennifer Still is a writer and editor from New York who cares too way much about fictional characters and spends her time writing about them.

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