Orange is the New Black drops early! Spoilers!
A_Ron_Hubbard
Cincinnati, OH
The whole season is now available! Our first podcast of the a season will be out this Tuesday!
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Season is alright so far, really disliked season 2 so I hope it's better than that.
Loved the season opener. The scenes with the women and their kids/families was great. It was so nice to see most of the women happy and with smiling faces, the kids playing together, etc. I agree though, Boo's clown makeup and getup was a bit scary. Pennsatucky's makeshift memorial to her aborted fetuses was a bit too dark for me, but totally fits with her character. Although I did find it amusing that their names all started with B, and it made me wonder, why B?
Think I'm getting a bit sick of Piper. I do like that she has turned into a bit of a hardened badass who just doesn't have a single fuck to give anymore, but I am totally over the whole Piper/Alex tension. I'm just done with it. If I compare the two, at this point I actually find Alex more a more likeable and interesting person, and that's saying something.
Fav. character right now, and has been for a while, is Red. I just love that she's tough as nails but kind when she needs to be. Kate Mulgrew is turning in a hell of a performance.
Looking forward to the next 'cast!
My wife and I finished up last night and it was kind of a mixed bag for me. It was mostly good. I really liked the expansion on Chang's character and I liked what they did with Gonzales. Hard as it was to watch, all of the Pennsatucky stuff was very effective as was the stuff with Bursett and Gloria. All the stuff with Crazy Eyes' book was fantastic and particularly, I really enjoyed the finale and how they wrapped things up. I particularly enjoyed how things wrapped up with Soso and with Crazy Eyes. Just felt good.
The things that I didn't really care for: Most things having to do with Piper. Piper and Alex, Piper and Beiber, Piper "the Godfather," etc. I don't hate Piper typically. She has always been kind of a "meh" character but even when she was doing cool stuff (like running an illegal operation from inside prison) she was just really obnoxious about it. I get that it part of the make-up of her character and there was no "betrayal" of who she is, but it's just not terribly fun to watch. She's just so "meh." I also thought the "cult of Norma" stuff got to be a bit tedious. I think they just gave the story too much real estate. Mostly though, I saw a bit of "season 3 syndrome." I wouldn't have noticed it if my wife hadn't pointed it out, but once you see it you can't unsee it. It seems like round about season 3 of shows the hair and make-up gets ramped up. In Scrubs for instance, you started to see everyone fixing their teeth and having commercial grade hair where before it was kind of refreshing that people looked a lot more like people. This is particularly kind of annoying in OitNB with it being a prison show. Just kind of takes you out of the experience a bit. Not a huge thing, but a nagging little thing.
All in all though I really enjoyed it. Maybe not quite as much as seasons 1 and 2, but I definitely liked it. I'm kind of grateful for no more Jason Biggs. I like him well enough in general, but his and Piper's dynamic was done long before the show realized it.
2. Alex sucks. I hope she's dead but judging by the cliffhanger I'm assuming that the guard is going to threaten her and then coerce her into doing something for Kubra. She has no redeeming qualities and I hate every moment she's on the screen.
3. Red and Healy? I gagged every time they were on screen together. It does appear that Healy had a horrible childhood though; I wonder if his mother is the reason he hates women?
4. I'm interested in the Judy King dynamic for next season. She, as a famous person, presumably will have a lot of power to bring public attention to all of the cuts the prison is making. It will be very disappointing if it just turned into more kitchen drama with Red.
5. Red Velvet guard has to die.
Healy is a fantastic character, and in my opinion one of the most wonderfully complex on TV. My instinct as a pretty hardcore feminist is to hate him because he just reeks of MRA, his instant reaction when things don't go his way is anger and lashing out, and he does some really awful things (letting Pennsatucky try to kill Piper, getting the other counsellor fired because he was jealous she was better than he was, etc.). However, there's something about him that still makes him likeable despite that - he wants to be nice, and he tries, but he doesn't have the skills and he doesn't know how to get them. I don't think he hates women as many people I've heard say - I think he finds them intimidating and unpredictable, and as a result his reactions to them are intimidating and unpredictable. He sees them as "women" rather than "people", so he categorises them as "other".
I could go on about this for hours because I find him so intriguing; Healy is a really interesting portrayal of an angry, middle class white man with angry, middle class white man problems. Kudos to the writers for making that something I actually want to watch and learn more about.
Donut dude sucks, really don't want to see my girl Maritza get raped so I hope that storyline ends early next season.
Pipers storyline this season was really fun, and seeing her go full on bad prison bitch was awesome, hope she keeps getting more and more ruthless.
Can't wait to see Red v Judy
Really related with SoSo these last few episodes, her storyline really mirrors some things going on in my life right now so her story really hit me hard, glad to see her join the black girls.
Black Cindy
Tastee as the mom will be fun
Hopefully Alex will not be returning next season.