![]() ![]() ![]() As O’Neill tells the nuns who have gathered to support Ingalls’ protest, “even a feral, wild, predatory beast can recognize innocence when it sees it.” He’s talking about a leopard who saved a baby baboon and raised it as her own, but he might as well be describing Yvonne Parker. Though there’s a quid pro quo involved, Red must also recognize that when up against someone like Vee, the street’s regular rules don’t apply. Appropriate for a show that’s basically a meditation on purgatory, right? If Netflix’s other marquee series, House of Cards, is a traditional video game-fast-paced, propulsive, focused on one main hero facing a series of flatter adversaries, making all the time you’ve invested contingent on an explosive ending- OITNB is more like an RPG: slower, more contemplative, diving deeply into even the least ostensibly important characters and concentrating less on the destination than the journey. We don’t necessarily binge this series because we’re dying to see what’s going to happen next we binge it because we yearn to be immersed inside of its fully formed world for as long as possible, delving deeper and deeper into its characters and relationships with every passing hour. ![]() Which seems fitting, considering the sort of show that Orange has become. Each of these dangling threads is compelling-but none is particularly pressing, and certainly not to the same extent as last year’s massive cliffhanger. ![]()
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