So close, guys. “Pissters!” was so close to being the turning-point moment in Orange Is the New Black‘s weirdly low-energy riot (for a season that has so far taken place over the course of a few hours,...

Good lord, Orange Is the New Black really didn’t let us off the hook when it came to Poussey, did it? The flashback is nothing short of beautiful. Samira Wiley does some of her best acting...

How do you follow a series-best episode like “People Persons”? If you’re Orange Is the New Black, you come out swinging with “The Animals,” which is something like a perfect follow-up. I know I’ve been beating...

Goddamn, what an episode. “People Persons” is not only the best installment of Orange Is the New Black‘s terrific fourth season, it might be the best episode the show has ever done, period. It was...

There is some seriously smart, confident storytelling going on with Orange Is the New Black, and “Bunny, Skull, Bunny, Skull” might be the best example of it. I don’t necessarily mean the episode – although, yes,...

“Turn Table Turn” was, in most respects, a pretty good episode of Orange Is the New Black. We got a good flashback, some disturbing developments at Litchfield, and some evolution within relationships. The episode was, however,...

Orange Is the New Black doesn’t quite break its streak with “Friends in Low Places” – it’s still better than “We’ll Always Have Baltimore” – but it can be frustrating at times because it doesn’t...

The economy with which Orange Is the New Black arrived at the first stage of Piper’s comeuppance is indicative of how well-oiled this storytelling machine has become. In just a few episodes, we’ve seen Piper aghast...

“Piece of Sh*t” does a damn good job at examining why its title character, Joel Luschek, is so troublesome. Many viewers, myself included, would count Luschek among their favorite characters on Orange Is the New...