Orange Is The New Black

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Orange Is the New Black: “We’ll Always Have Baltimore”

T. Dawson June 22, 2016

“We’ll Always Have Baltimore” is of several different minds. While not a bad episode, strictly speaking, this is the most scattered installment so far of Orange Is the New Black‘s fourth season. At times it...

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Orange Is the New Black: “Doctor Psycho”

T. Dawson June 21, 2016

I was right, wasn’t I? I’m always right. Orange Is the New Black got dark with “Doctor Psycho,” and the show was better for it. Where “Power Suit” and “(Don’t) Say Anything” were significantly lighter, they didn’t do...

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Orange Is the New Black: “(Don’t) Say Anything”

T. Dawson June 20, 2016

Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: yes, Orange Is the New Black is rushing the Brooke/Poussey relationship. Does that matter, if the relationship works? I mean, yes and no. There’s some narrative leeway...

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Orange Is the New Black: “Power Suit”

T. Dawson June 19, 2016

Man, Orange Is the New Black is really reaching deep into its roster for flashbacks, isn’t it? I guess the writing was on the wall when we saw Chang’s flashback last season, but man, who was...

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Orange Is the New Black: “Work That Body For Me”

T. Dawson June 17, 2016

Orange Is the New Black pulled off an amazing feat of storytelling in its last season. It made Piper Chapman interesting (has she ever been more engaging than when she got Stella sent to max?),...

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Television News

Here are your 2015 Emmy nominees

T. Dawson July 16, 2015

I gotta admit, I always forget that the Emmys don’t go down in the usual awards season of January-March, so the announcement of nominees always catches me somewhat by surprise. I’m bad at my...

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Orange Is the New Black: “Bed Bugs and Beyond”

T. Dawson June 14, 2015

Man, what an episode. “Mother’s Day” had its own quiet kind of charm, but “Bed Bugs and Beyond” was Orange Is the New Black firing on all cylinders. Plots were put in motion, stories were advanced,...

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Orange Is the New Black: “Mother’s Day”

T. Dawson June 12, 2015

What a weird season premiere. I don’t mean that “Mother’s Day” is a bizarre episode – it’s no stranger than any other installment of Orange Is the New Black – I just find it strange that OITNB would...

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First trailer for season three of Orange is the New Black

T. Dawson April 9, 2015

Netflix released the first trailer for the third season of Orange is the New Black, and as excited I am about it, I’m also confused because it absolutely looks like a comedy, which is...

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The Top 10 TV episodes of the year (so far)

T. Dawson August 1, 2014 1 Comment

With 2014 a little more than half over, my partner in crime Margaux and I wanted to take a look at the year’s ten best episodes of television so far. It’s been a hell...

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Television News

No more Pornstache on Orange is the New Black

T. Dawson July 24, 2014

Few Orange is the New Black characters have stood out as much as George “Pornstache” Mendez, the perverted, slightly sadistic correctional officer played by The Wire‘s Pablo Schreiber. But even with Mary Steenburgen joining...

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