ugh what a bleak and underwhelming dud of a season
I disagree completely, this season is probably my favorite among all the seasons, since it's so dedicated to killing utopias.
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
Uh... so three episodes into this season. Does it get better?
It's weird to consider abandoning a show I've enjoyed well enough for seasons, but everything about this is falling flat for me, the misanthropy, the pokey plotting, the sexual assault played for humor, the comic bits that feel like placeholders for funnier comic bits the writers never got around to punching up (more characters chatting irreverently about movies, but getting details wrong). Everything about it just strikes me as miserable. Does that gloom ever lift?
― Evan R, Friday, 7 July 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
A lot of good things happened this season, but the whole premise of it was complete bullshit, and once I figured out the entire season was going to be the inmates holding the prison and it was a bottle season taking place over 3-4 days, I tuned out of caring so much and just focused on details I liked.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 7 July 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
I gave up after episode 2
― Οὖτις, Friday, 7 July 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
― Evan R, Friday, July 7, 2017 12:55 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i didn't think it got better. i ended up watching most of it, this i was only an episode or two from the end. may end up finishing it at some stage but don't really care at the moment
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 July 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
no, it doesn't get better, but like everyone says it's pleasant when you stop truly caring abt it and just enjoy the amusing moments as they happen.
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 10 July 2017 14:21 (six years ago) link
we just finished s3 last night. i have to pack it in now, s1 and s2 were really good and promising but shit just fell apart. sometimes it feels good to say goodbye to show without finishing it
― marcos, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
Yeah don't become like me and try to finish Dexter after not enjoying it for three years.
S4 is a major drop off in quality, no reason to subject yourself to it
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
really? i thought season 4 was nearly as good as S2. S5 was kind of a mess though.
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
oh oops, I forgot there were five seasons. I did enjoy S4 quite a bit (that was the leisurely one where hardly anything happens, right? I mean that in a good way). But S5 really burned the show to the ground.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
also damn just read this show has been renewed for a seventh season, too. That is one very long one-year prison sentence.
taking steps is easy, standing still is hard
― bhad bhabie...you gon' hurt your bhack (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
wait, we are to believe that all 5 seasons have taken place in the span of 1 year?
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 23 April 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
watched the 1st couple eps of S4 and gave up on this. Really enjoyed 1st 2 seasons. Haven't thought about the show at all since stopped watching it. I think the Piper/Prepon softcore soap opera stuff was what 1st soured me on it.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 23 April 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
yea for sure that storyline got really old even within s1
― marcos, Monday, 23 April 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
S6 began pretty wobbly, but ended up in a good place (for most of what remains of the original cast, anyway).
OITNB has a poor track record with integrating new characters in meaningful ways, and S6 is no exception, but at least the Carol/Barb thing was fun dramedy.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 July 2018 00:44 (five years ago) link
I watched the 1st episode of S6 and it stressed me out SO much, does the whole season go on like this?like it's not fun for me to watch powerless women be abused???
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 31 August 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
It's no worse than S5 for this really (which I just rewatched and enjoyed more also) but yeah there's a bunch of depressing evil stuff (worst moment for this imo comes during a flashback to two of the new characters), some lols. I had enough interest in enough characters to keep watching somehow.
― nashwan, Friday, 31 August 2018 09:12 (five years ago) link
Another bleak season - how else could it go? But with the jokes not really hitting and an added sense of rudderless drift from the writers...not sure I could even drop spoilers if I wanted to. 2 eps left to go (165 mins between them).
― nashwan, Thursday, 8 August 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
The first third of the season was so dense that it felt like watching an entire previous season by the time I finished ep4. I soldiered on and finished it, though, and I guess it was about as rewarding as this show can ever get.
I hope that one day we get a womens' prison drama that learns from this show's mistakes.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 August 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
what do you think of Pete McTighe's Prisoner reboot, Wentworth?
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 9 August 2019 07:59 (four years ago) link