Orphan Black & Helix: The "Company" Resurfaces

In my previous post The Nefarious Company and Its Many Tentacles, I discussed how there seemed to be a conspiracy, guided by a corporation in many televisions shows of the past decade. In Helix, the company is identified as The Ilaria Corporation. In Orphan Black, it is two competing groups, The Proletheans and The Dyad Corporation, the second of which is a direct descendant of a pair of military project called Project Leda and Project Castor.

The Ilaria Corporation is composed of 500 immortals, governed by a board of directors. Their ultimate goal is to reduce the human population to "manageable," "sustainable" levels in order to restore the Earth to "ecological balance." The Proletheans and Dyad Corporation are on two sides of the cloning debate. The Dyad Corporation are trying to replicate the initial success of Project Leda in creating female clones and are monitoring all of the known existing clones for health and research purposes. The Proletheans are biblically opposed to cloning, but intrigued by two specific members of the clone club: Sarah Manning and Helena.

These aspects of "the company" continue to play important roles throughout the development of the series.