Reflections on Orange is the New Black: Season 2

3.5/4

I'm realizing more and more how original the fundamental structure of this series is. It's difficult to point to one technique that separates it, because it's just an underlying unconventionality. It's willing to do things that most series won't do--I suppose it's extremely brave.
The most significant feature of the series to me is its emotional ambiguity. You don't know how to feel.

I don't want to blog about this anymore... As I watched the final episode of the second season with my watching buddy I watched never from a critic's perspective. I was fully invested. The show sucked me in so that I can't play the role of the observer. I love the series, no matter how bad or good it is, and I won't let myself examine it like it doesn't mean something to me, in the same way that I wouldn't talk about how good or bad a person I think my mom is in front of her. It doesn't matter. I care more about the show than I do its quality.

(Five days later, I am now removed enough)

Orange just feels like real life, with some extra added emotion and drama and humor. That's why it's not my kind of show, I just like it a lot. I need things such as 2001 or Apocalypse or Magnolia where I can be in a different world where greater things can happen; where reality can be defied.