Orange is the New Black

[Jessweeee♪]

Me and my best friend ordered pizza and watched the entire season in one sitting. It was amazing. Also the pizza was free because it got delivered to the wrong house so they remade it and comp'd it for being so late c:

[Lonely Paper Star]

general/whole seasonGood riddance to Vee.

I want to know Brook's story. I imagine we'll see that next season.

I like the idea of Fig ending up with the other prisoners. It would be goood for her character.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this season. Need moooar.

[Calliope]

I liked the show, but it didn't seem as gripping as the first season.

(SPOILER)Things I particularly liked in this season:

-Nichols struggling with addiction
-Getting to see a more human side of Fig
-Seeing Fig and Pornstache get ousted
-Rosa and the chemo kid
-Larry as the bad guy
-Strong plot and character development for Taystee

Things I didn't particularly like:
-The flashbacks. They didn't really seem to be revealing new information, only detracting from plot
-The complete conversion of Pennsatucky. I guess teeth make the man.
-Not enough Alex or Sophia
-If Taystee is so good with numbers, etc., then wouldn't she be more likely to have landed on her feet when she got out last season?
-Larry and Polly...could they not have shown any more imagination here?
-Way to have the worst filing system in the world, Fig!

Chapman: Oh, I thought he was a rapist! I'm so relieved!

Vee: Is it cold for Amazon to underprice books just to capture market share?

Morello: Maybe I'll pinterest. I hear that's a thing.



Morello: What kind of a woman doesn't want to pick her own date?

Nichols: Someone who doesn't get excited by the wedding industrial complex and society's bulltrout need to infantilize grown women?

[Raistlin]

I have to agree with Calliope. I enjoyed the season (and did, in fact, lose most of my weekend -- including almost all of Saturday -- to watching it), but less so than the first one. The flashbacks seemed more random, less interesting, and less revealing (especially all of Poussey's), and except for some of the subplots, there was even less social commentary about issues broader than prison conditions. Also how bad did Piper's lawyer have to be so that: 1) she didn't know she was being transferred to testify, and 2) didn't work out some sort of early-release deal with the feds in exchange? (the answer is "very bad")

It was nice not to have all of the inmates all happy and like each other, though. Vee was a welcome, and deservedly hated, bad guy. Nichols was great as always. Pornstache was a great cameo, especially for him to get busted.

[Rantz]

(SPOILER)I want a spinoff following Rosa's final adventures.

[Calliope]

(SPOILER)While I think of it, Polly is pretty terrible! Sure, her husband up and left her after becoming a new father, but he came back; and her response was to just throw their relationship away on what boils down to a hormone-and-resentment driven whim.

I get that Larry is shown so much because he's Piper's main relationship (in the beginning, at least) and her link to the outside, but does he really need so much screentime? He's a boring, self-absorbed white writer in New York, in a show full of underrepresented people, and sometimes it seems like his scenes are just taking time away from everyone else without adding anything. I watch the show because it deals with prisoners, not to watch some guy try to pick up women or go to starbucks.

Well, that ends this weekend's installment of Calliope Thinks There Are Too Many White People, thanks for tuning in!

[Jinx]

I have a lot of thoughts about things

My main issue is with the penultimate and last episodes. Listen, I love Red and don't want her character to die, but I have a really hard time believing someone as mentally ill and vicious as Vee would not make sure 100% that Red was dead. I don't think she came after her just to attack and scare her; I truly believe her intent was to kill her.

Now, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for certain parts of the show for drama's/entertainment's sake. Things like Morello breaking in to Christopher's house, Rosa escaping prison in a blaze of glory, Daya and the guard (still not sure of his name) falling in love and having a baby (unrealistic in the sense that they get away with it/no one notices the crazy amount of time they spend together) are very hard to believe are possible, but they make for good and amusing TV, so I don't question it too much.

But Vee called her cop buddy to kill the man she practically raised just because he "went into business" for himself. No one was around and you get the impression Red wasn't found that soon after her slocking. Someone like Vee would've kept hitting her until her face was a caved-in bloody pulp.

Again, I didn't/don't want Red to die, but Vee is pretty sadistic. I just don't accept that she'd allow for any margin of error in that case.

[Calliope]

On the set of OITNB: Water undrinkable, sewage problems aren't just made up for the show, etc.

PS - I always wondered (SPOILER)why they let Morello drive the van in the first place. Surely the cost of paying a guard $18/hr is more than worth letting an inmate drive a van, especially an inmate who was incarcerated for stalking and has a history of mental instability, and also when you consider how dangerous vehicles are (sup vee). They don't even have to hire a guard to do it - but I suppose cutting costs is a major plotline, so yes I guess we'll go with it.

The more I think about this Jinx, the more I'm all "wait, they just distracted us by releasing all the episodes at once!" xD

[Jinx]

Oh yeah, some of the stuff is just SO unrealistic. But I appreciate the show for what it is and don't expect too much out of it. xD

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

(SPOILER)I like that we find out Morello is a crazy stalker. Going throughout season 1 you just know that she has a guy on the outside. Then the truth is revealed in season 2. She's actually been talking about why she's in there the whole time and we just didn't know about it.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

[Slothy]

(SPOILER)-If Taystee is so good with numbers, etc., then wouldn't she be more likely to have landed on her feet when she got out last season?

(SPOILER)Sure she'd be more likely. But being slightly more likely than not the least bit likely is still a big hurdle to overcome. Especially when you're a black woman who came from an underpriveleged background, don't really have anywhere to live and everyone you know that you might be able to rely on is likely to land you back inside anyway.

(SPOILER)While I think of it, Polly is pretty terrible! Sure, her husband up and left her after becoming a new father, but he came back; and her response was to just throw their relationship away on what boils down to a hormone-and-resentment driven whim.

(SPOILER)I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. It was pretty obvious in season 1 that her husband was a bit of a scatter brained jackass who couldn't really cut the relationship and fatherhood stuff all that well. And season 2 just drove that home completely. I don't care what your wife who just gave birth says, you don't just up and leave for a month and stick her with a new born to take care of. The level of irresponsibility that takes is truly staggering. Leaving him was inevitable. Leaving him for Larry just happened because Larry took more of an interest in her and the babies well being than her husband ever did, even when he was still with Piper. It certainly may be a bit of a rash decision for her to get together with Larry, but her leaving her husband does not make her terrible. It makes her a sane human being who's able to recognize when her partner isn't any good for her or the baby on a long term, day to day basis.

[Jessweeee♪]

Oh yeah, some of the stuff is just SO unrealistic. But I appreciate the show for what it is and don't expect too much out of it. xD

Some things are awfully convenient. But I came here because I love Weeds so much and oh my god Weeds is just so extreme and melodramatic with it's plot twists OITNB is so much more believable in comparison.

[Jinx]

Yearly bump!

Episode 4Oh man, Red and Healy are totally getting together.

[Del Murder]

This trout is back? Hot damn.