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Title: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Gladstone on 09 Apr 2015, 14:21

I went back several pages and couldn't find a discussion for Orange Is the New Black, so here it is.  Season 3 trailer now up:

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: jwhouk on 09 Apr 2015, 14:57

I don't discuss OITNB because it reminds me too much of work.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Lines on 14 Jun 2015, 19:40

I just finished watching Season 3.


AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Gladstone on 14 Jun 2015, 20:02

Ack!  Haven't watched it yet!  Will probably start it tomorrow, but I'm not really a binge-watcher, so it'll take a couple of weeks.  Spoiler tags  :-)

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Lines on 14 Jun 2015, 20:30

I can hold back spoilers, no worries. Mostly the aahhh was because it was a good season.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: chaospersonified on 16 Jun 2015, 21:46

Second to last episode, about to finish off the season, and good goddamn, I ain't saying anything else, but you should watch it. Whoever you are. Watch it.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Gladstone on 16 Jun 2015, 22:17

Started it yesterday, now several episodes in.  Forget what I said about not-binge-watching, I'll have this done in under a week.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: chaospersonified on 16 Jun 2015, 22:25

Quote from: Gladstone on 16 Jun 2015, 22:17

Started it yesterday, now several episodes in.  Forget what I said about not-binge-watching, I'll have this done in under a week.

The only way to watch it.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Gladstone on 04 Jul 2015, 21:01

Okay, just finished (I had to take about a week to steel myself to continue after reading the Netflix summary on Ep. 12), but

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Lines on 05 Jul 2015, 18:48

I know, right?

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I really hope the guards aren't gone next season. I really like several of them.

Also I love how Rodgers is a huge foil for Healy. I can't stand him.

There are a lot of things I want to talk about, but I'm really considering going back through the whole thing.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: robinz on 23 Jul 2015, 03:33

Don't waste your time! It's not very good, I was really disappointed this season. I used to blog a lot about TV shows but haven’t done it in ages. Television blogging is something I used to be really into, but don’t bother with it so much nowadays. But I think I would like to get started again, I might get a WordPress blog with http://www.1and1.co.uk/wordpress-blogs
 (http://www.1and1.co.uk/wordpress-blogs) Let me know if anyone fancies getting on board.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Lines on 25 Jul 2015, 20:51

I don't think it's a waste of time. I think it's definitely different from the other two seasons, but there are parts of this season that I really like and definitely think make it worth watching.

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More side character flashbacks, the corporate takeover/guard union, and most of all:

(http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE1LzA2LzE4L2U3L1RpbWVIdW1wZXJDLjY1MTVhLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4/3cd82b3a/b63/Time-Humper-Chronicles-5.jpg)

Part of me wants that to become a real book because it sounds freaking hilarious.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Lines on 26 Jun 2016, 20:31

Just finished the latest season.

 :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Masterpiece on 10 Jul 2016, 10:02

:-( noooo

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: pwhodges on 10 Jul 2016, 10:25

I thought (very) briefly that this might be about the new season's anime called Orange; I was wrong...

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: hedgie on 10 Jul 2016, 11:46

Quote from: Masterpiece on 10 Jul 2016, 10:02

:-( noooo

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Yeah, her death and its aftermath were bad enough.  The flashback sequences just twisted the knife.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Lines on 13 Jul 2016, 19:35

Quote from: hedgie on 10 Jul 2016, 11:46

Quote from: Masterpiece on 10 Jul 2016, 10:02

:-( noooo

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Yeah, her death and its aftermath were bad enough.  The flashback sequences just twisted the knife.

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By the end of the flashbacks, though, I had a hard time deciding whether or not they were flashbacks or kind of an afterlife thing. When she smiled into the camera, it made me think it was the latter.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Welu on 01 Aug 2016, 12:15

Just watched all four seasons and AAHHHH. It feels like Breaking Bad. Every time it gets as low as you think it could go, they stomp through ten floors to deeper awfulness. Really good watch.

Title: Re: Orange Is the New Black
Post by: Thrillho on 17 Aug 2016, 05:17

I watched all of this recently and I have quite a few thoughts that I am now going to throw at the wall like shit and see if they stick.

I'm not hugely invested in the show itself, per se. I more like what it represents, which is an enormous number of well represented minorities and people you just otherwise don't see on TV.

I also like the way it refuses outright to cast a judgemental eye on its characters, especially the convicts, who are shown to mostly just be people who went through struggles. Some of them aren't even that, they're ones who clearly made their own beds but the show still doesn't judge them.

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Also, Healy is an absolute piece of shit. He's worse even than Mendez because he doesn't even know that he's a piece of shit. And the one legged guy might be even worse.

I feel like the fourth season was quite a bit weaker than the other ones though. I also felt the final episode was quite a non-starter and very heavy-handed.