The other big sea change to come with this season is that if anyone from this season is going to submit as a lead actress at the Emmys, it should not be Taylor Schilling. As the old saying goes, it’s all fun and games until the torture starts. But the end of the season takes such a dark turn that their memory feels tainted somehow. There are a few enjoyable set pieces, in the proud tradition of Season 1’s Christmas pageant or Season 2’s mock job fair.
Seemingly harmless jokes about ogling an attractive man escalate to the point of threats of sexual assault. The further we go down that rabbit hole, the less fun we have.
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There are sequences which feel more like a “Saw” movie than the “Orange” we’ve known in the past - a very dark look for a series that has otherwise always made some limited effort to find some humor in the reality of incarceration. It’s a choice that does elevate this season and give it new focus and directive, which has been lacking in last years - Seasons 3 and 4 were extremely watchable, but did feel a bit meandering from time to time.īut, as the show has always struggled with tone, in later episodes the series delves far more into horror tropes than you might expect, in legitimately horrifying ways. And without getting into spoilers, said riot consumes the season, the women taking control of the prison and establishing their own society within the confines of these cement walls. This period of time begins at the exact moment when Season 4 ended, with the women of Litchfield rising up against the guards, and inmate Dayanara (Dascha Polanco) holding a gun. It wasn’t the first time we’d seen death in Litchfield, but this particular tragedy, especially in the wake of how it invoked the other atrocities which gave birth to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, was particularly heart-breaking.Īnd Season 5, we knew in advance, would be quite different from past years because of the choice to decompress the storytelling: While normally a season of “Orange” would take place over the course of several weeks, this season was almost told in real time, with the 13 episodes taking place over the course of about days. Season 4 was perhaps the most challenging in this respect, as the final two episodes pushed the show into new territory after Poussey (Samira Wiley) died at the hands of a guard. READ MORE: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 5 Trailer: Inmates Run the Prison After Rebellion at Litchfield Penitentiary
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