#oitnb season six

[thatssoarrow]

First post of the new year

Unexpectingly, it's Carol and Frieda. Am I the only one who low-key ships them? 👀

[shortviolet]

im watching six feet under and there are SO many people i recognize from shit that aired way later. literally the main cast is dexter, the maid from season 1 of ahs, adult van from yellowjackets (in her 20s). it's episode 4 and i just saw daya's mom from oitnb witnessing her boyfriend get shot

[girltomboy]

So I finished my OITNB rewatch (tbh the final season/episodes felt rushed and forced, but overall I was right to remember it as a good show and I'm really glad I rewatched it because I understood certain parts much better now - my best friend is rewatching it with her bf too!) and then I tried to watch Haunting of the Hill House. SO TERRIBLE! Why did so many people praise this slop when it came out? I remember everybody talking about it. My coworker recommended it to me and I was already aware that our tastes aren't very similar, but now I'm firmly convinced of it. I couldn't finish ONE episode; the acting was incredibly bad and cringeworthy, I guess the characters were overall unlikable to me, and the writing was abysmal. And it's not even a horror series. So I dropped it, and I started watching Six Feet Under - I've had my eye on this show for maybe a decade, and now its time has finally come. Well, I've been pleasantly surprised to recognize so many actors in it, like Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, and the guy from Dexter which I haven't watched. But I just started episode 4 and here's Aleida from OITNB! What a babe!!! I knew her voice sounded familiar (off-screen).

Update from 3 minutes later:

Hank too???

[matildaworrmwood]

Taystee Jeffreson is the heart and soul of Orange is the new black

[itsreallyrose]

I love her

[ohbutwebestmakepeacewithit]

season six babies

[saturnivrse]

I love my almost married couple

[jellybeans223]

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[muraqiba]

When will OITNB return from the war... My patience is thinning

[matildaworrmwood]

Am I crazy or do the writers get Carol and Barb confused at one point??

[toyboy-molloy]

oitnb season five highlights

-nichorello

-humphreys’ death

-bayley’s guilt

-alison’s backstory

-guard humiliation

-justice for poussey

-coates shooting off leanne’s finger

-floritza

-less vauseman

-like chang and pennsatucky legit escaped and no one seems to give a fuck

-frieda’s backstory

-inmates walking around in normal people clothes

-suzanne warren

-piscatella’s death

-the flashback where taystee and poussey met

-linda’s comeuppance

-soso’s memorial for poussey

-piscatella’s backstory

-pornstache flashback though

-taystee’s heartbreaking breakdown

-THAT FINALE WHAT THE FUCK

[tribadismes]

7, 10, 11, 34 for the tv show ask!

Hey love ! Thank you so much for asking !!

7. have you ever been inspired to start a new show based on gifs or memes it has produced ?

oh definitely ! probably the case for 1/4 shows i've watched !

10. what’s one show you thought you’d love but turned out to really hate ?

There's this show called Work in Progress that sounded right up my alley, it's written & stars a butch with ocd so you know basically my life story, i was really excited about it, but it ended up making me extremely uncomfortable and was a huge disappointment. The premise is already... really icky since it's about this 40 something butch lesbian who starts dating a 20 yo pre-transion trans man, but you know it could have been handled in a good way i guess ? but it wasn't, it really really wasn't, and the main character is so unlovable and, yeah, big flop, wouldn't recommend, oh at all. I was also really disappointed in Dead End : Paranormal Park, it's an adult horror/fantasy cartoon featuring a gay trans man lead and his autistic bestie and talking dog. I love adult cartoons and liked the premise and animation style so i was like this is gonna be good but it's not. I watched it less than six months ago and barely remember it so i can't really elaborate lmao but i remember the plot being both messy and underwhelming (proof : can barely tell you what the plot even is) and also that the worldbuilding was extremely lackluster, which is a huge dealbreaker when we're talking fantasy like ?? Needless to say i dropped both these shows after the first season and never looked back.

11. which TV show has the best musical soundtrack, in your opinion ?

if we're talking serious good original soundtrack obviously Twin Peaks comes to mind... if we're judging by how obsessed i am with it then... Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, oh surprise

34. what are your top 5 shows right now ?

i loooove that question and i will even make a proper ranking for yah ! I'm judging by how often I think about them and how much youtube content i consume around them lmfao.

5. A League Of Their Own : best show of 2022, favorite lesbian show since oitnb probably, actually haven't gone into a youtube rabbit hole about it (yet) but i really wanna rewatch it soon, also my thirst for butches in period clothing is endless

4. Arcane : i am obsessed with this show, watched it twice in like a week, it's amazing truly, so fucking well-written, if you're into fantasy, animation, crazy women and butches with big muscles you should definitely watch it. I don't think a show has ever emotionally scarred me like that and i loved every second of it.

3. Young Royals : i regularly rewatch scenes from this show, i'm just fascinated with the acting... also i love their love, makes me wanna fall in love again (yes i have been using it as a coping mechanism since my break up to remember love is beautiful and shit)

2. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend : i mean what can i say that i haven't already said jjjkjkjkjarf the thing is it's the only show on this little list that i watched for the first time a really really long time ago (4, 5 years ago ?) and that has finished airing (cause my obsession for the other shows is mostly explained by : i'm waiting for the next season/episode) but i'm just obsessed with the music man, i listen to it on a daily basis almost

Helluva Boss : indie adult cartoon (free on youtube), hence why it's almost unknown except if you're an embarrassing cartoon dweeb like me lmfao but it's about to be a lot more famous since a show by the same creator in the same universe was picked up by i believe hbo and is going to air sometime this year. The best way to describe the tone of the show is, it's like Bojack Horseman but in hell. It's. So. So. Good. It has everything i love : really really dark humour, fucked up characters, drama, incredibly toxic gay ships, tons of lore, great world-building, foreshadowing, and most importantly a completely hectic release schedule (due to it being indie) that makes my adhd go absolutely fucking bonkers

[ohbutwebestmakepeacewithit]

[katelynnsmusings]

Description: Finally out of prison, Nicky Nichols runs in to an old face. Pairing: Lorna Morello x Nicky Nichols Requester:  anonymous  

Prison dragged on - and on, and on, and on. It was a never ending cycle of days that turned in to months, weeks, years - which turned in to more years than Nicky had ever planned on spending behind bars, thanks to fucked up drug-fueled choices and standing at her family’s side in a hidden pool one day. Brought straight to max with added years on her sentence, she had pretty much given up hope of ever getting out. Prison was going to kill her - it was going to drain her until nothing remained of the person she had once been or the person she had become with her family at her side in Litchfield. 

She’d accepted that fate. Embraced it. Let max turn her in to shell of the person she had been until suddenly there was no trace of Nicky Nichols left in the body she had once claimed. 

And then suddenly it was over, and lifeless eyes found themselves on a prison bus being shipped to the nearest bus station with a parole officer watching her like a hawk. She had a shitty little apartment in a halfway house, 75 dollars and no idea how she was supposed to become a person again. How the fuck was she supposed to reintegrate with society when she’d spent almost ten years behind bars? She’d never been good in the first place. The world wouldn’t want her.

She had to anyways.

She had been out a month when she finally got a shitty job at a shitty little pizza joint. She was surprised they took her at all but hey - she could get the lady from the house off her back about at least one thing. 

She’d been there two weeks before they fired her.

Time dragged on. Life dragged one. Days became weeks became months. The monotony never stopped but slowly, piece by piece, Nicky started feeling like a human again. A drained, hopeless human but a human none the less. She became friends with one of the chicks across the hall, learned to have a conversation with another person again. She learned how to look after herself again.

All of that progress felt like it meant nothing when a familiar silhouette brought back memories of a girl she had once loved so many years before.

She shot up for the first time since Litchfield that night, in the alley besides her halfway house so they couldn’t get mad at her for having drugs in the building and kick her out.

She’d thought it was a dream, but it wasn’t ‘cause two days later as she was walking through a park she saw the same woman she’d seen before and God it was her. Older, maybe wiser - maybe not. It was the first time she’d ever seen Lorna with her hair not curled up, but there was a smile on her face as she watched a little boy cross some monkey bars from a wooden bench.

Lorna didn’t see her. Nicky kept walking. She couldn’t tell if this was the past trying to haunt her or a blessing from a God she didn’t believe in. She knew, she knew, that Lorna Morello was the key to the last piece of her humanity, but at the same time she knew the woman also tore her a part.

She’d talk to Lorna if she was there on the way back, Nicky decided. She was gone - must have been fate.

It was hard not to keep seeing her after that, though. Nicky hadn’t realized how often Lorna visited that park - must live near by or something. She’d never pictured Lorna as a New York girl but maybe Vinnie lived here or some shit. She didn’t give that much thought to it - or at least she said she wouldn’t. (She did anyways.)

Eventually, though, Lorna saw her. 

“Nicky?” She hadn’t expected to be summoned, especially in that voice - but really, she knew it would happen eventually. Maybe that was why she kept walking through this park. Maybe that was why she kept holding on. Maybe that’s why she’d had the one hit and fought off the urge to do it again, as hard as that was.

Nichols stopped in her tracks, pursing her lips together and turning towards the small figure.

“Lorna.” She didn’t know what else to say. She didn’t know what there was to say. There’s a pregnant pause, and she breaks the silence. “How’ve you been?”

“I’ve been okay you know, just makin’ sure my babies are okay; same old, same old.” Lorna offers her a smile, and then looks away to glance towards the play equipment. 

When Lorna says babies, Nicky’s gaze turns to the kid she’d seen her watching time and time before. That’s when she notices the toddler the kid is playing with has been the same each and every time. Fuck. Maybe she’d done some good calling Vinnie all those years ago - apparently the man had at least half a set of balls and did the right thing. Did the thing she couldn’t - the thought crossed her mind and she hated herself for it.

“Babies, eh? Popped out another?” She tries to hold a conversation but she doesn’t know how. This isn’t prison and she’s not the same person that she used to be. 

“Yeah.” She smiles in the direction of the kids and Nicky can’t take her eyes off of Lorna.

Next thing she knows the screams of two crotch fruit are interrupting the silence.

“Mommy who’s this?” The boy asks, holding his little sister’s hand. The girl’s a spitting image of her mother and for the first time in a long time Nicky feels something other than nothing - regret. Regret that she’d gone to max in the first place, that she’d called Vinnie, that it had been six years since she’d last seen the one person she’d ever really loved.

And regret that she felt jealous, petty. Regret that she wants to be by Lorna’s side even after all of these years, because fuck - she had no right to think these things about a married woman.

“Sammy this is Nicky, she’s an old friend of mine.” Lorna crouches down to the kid’s level to speak to him, and then looks up at Nicky with a smile. “Nicky this is Sammy, and his little sister is Sara.”

“You don’t have friends.” The five year old’s remark is curt and Nicky has to try not to laugh about how straightforward kids can be. Lorna, however, isn’t very impressed - the smile on her face turns in to a frown and she pushes lightly against the boy’s lower back.

“Go play, Sammy. Take your sister with you.” Lorna’s got a serious tone and the same frown forms on Sammy’s face as he grabs his sister by the wrist and begins to run back off.

“Looks like you’ve got a handful,” Nicky said with a chuckle once the coast was clear again.

“Yeah, I love em though.”

“Vinnie good with them?” Vinnie even in the picture still? She couldn’t see that man being good with kids, let alone these kids and their mother. 

“He, uh… He’s amazing with them, loves em to bits.” There’s hesitation in her voice, and Nicky knows immediately there’s more to the story. 

“Yeah?”

“Yeah.” Lorna nods, quick and jolty. Silence fills the air and Nicky cocks her eyebrows, silently asking if she Lorna was sure about that.

“On weekends, okay. He’s great with them - on weekends. He left me after I got pregnant with Sara. Are you happy now?”

For a second, Nicky’s taken aback by Lorna’s tone and she flinches away. 

“Nah. Not happy. Just knew you weren’t telling the truth,” Nicky says and she finally takes a seat on the bench besides Lorna, close enough that their fingers almost touch. “What happened? I knew he was a piece of work but you’d think he woulda left, y’know, before knocking you up again if he had a problem.”

“I don’t know. I thought things were great. Sammy was a baby, you know. We moved here a couple months after I got out ‘cause he was livin’ with his mother and y’know, we needed the space. And I get pregnant, and he says he’s had ‘enough of this shit’ and just… goes. I didn’t want him to, and I mean… We was great you know? I had my husband and my son and it was great.”

Nicky bites her lip, but leans over to rub Lorna’s back anyways.

“That’s rough babe.” She takes her hand off of Lorna and wonders what she’s supposed to do now. Years ago it would have been simple - tell her how amazing she is, that she’ll always be there for her, but right now Nicky can’t even be there for herself let alone the special brand of crazy that makes up the most beautiful person she’s ever had the pleasure of seeing.

“And I mean… I’m raisin’ two babies on my own now Nicky. I never wanted this. It’s easier, ‘cause Sammy, he’s in school now, but… I never wanted to be raisin’ my kids on my own.” Years ago, Lorna would have been in tears by now, having a meltdown that she swore she’d never recover from. She’s not, though - she’s distressed, that Nicky can tell, but she’s doing a damn good job of not causing a scene. 

Huh, people really can grow.

“Well, hey. I’m not much use right now, but you got a friend in me any time you need it okay?” She rests her elbows on her knees and slouches forwards, looking up towards Lorna. She then glances at her watch, and realizes the time - she was supposed to hit up a job interview and if she didn’t leave now she’d be right fucked.

“Look, uh, you got a phone?” Lorna reaches in to her pocket and pulls out a cell, which Nicky grabs and puts the number to her place in to. “If you need me, any time, call me. Uh, before 10. Or I can get in shit. But I have a thing I really need to get to.”

“Oh… okay.” Lorna’s got puppy dog eyes on her face now, silently begging Nicky to stay and she would, she really would, but fuck she can’t miss this interview or she’ll be in shit. She’s on her last chance to have a place to live and not even Lorna Morello is worth being homeless for.

“Look, I don’t wanna go. Really. But I’ll see you around, okay? I better.” She says it but part of her hopes that she doesn’t, that she doesn’t get pulled back down the rabbithole that is Lorna Morello - but the other part of her thinks that’s exactly what she needs to become herself again.

[bonesgadh]

My thoughts on the final season of Orange is the New Black:

Obviously, some heavy spoilers below:

If you ask me, Piper’s storyline outside Litchfield was, for the most part, a complete waste of time. Instead of having her getting stoned with her brother or going to that pointless retreat, why didn’t they have her doing something productive like helping other former inmates or writing her book?

Speaking of the book, I’m high-key disappointed they gave the memoir storyline to Judy fucking King. Call me cheesy but I was looking forward to the show ending with Piper writing her book just like she said she would in season 6. Such a missed opportunity.

I really, really wanted Taystee to be cleared of Piscatella’s murder. I don’t understand why they gave so much importance to Suzanne writting what really happened and Taystee showing the text to her lawyer if it wasn’t going to make a difference in the end. Chekhov’s gun, anyone?

I’m so relieved she didn’t kill herself. I guess as long as there’s life there’s hope fucking Cindy will confess the truth and justice will be served. In the meantime, I was happy Taystee found a new meaning to her life and decided to help other inmates have a better shot at rebuilding their lives after prison.

Daddy’s death caught me by surprise. That said, I didn’t notice her absence at all for the reminder of the season. I guess she was a one-hit wonder character.

I have the feeling they had no idea what to do with Frieda so they just had her do weird stuff like accumulating trash. 

Thank Christ they got rid of Badison so early in the season. Cringiest, most annoying character in the history of television.

Aleida is so stupid lmao. I get she wanted to protect her daughter from that pedophile but she fucked up. I was rooting for her to rebuild her life and I was disappointed at her.

I liked Suzanne coming to terms with her sentence and being more comfortable around people and making new friends. It’s what she deserves.

Why is Cesar out of jail? Didn’t Aleida say he was supposed to stay there until he was an old man?

So Yadriel isn’t Pepa’s biological father?

Shani, man. Her relationship with Nicky was so cute and you could tell she was different from Nicky’s other flings. She didn’t act like a stallion around her, she was sweet and considerate with her and her backstory was very sad. I’m pissed they weren’t endgame because they made such a good couple.

There was no need to kill off Lorna’s baby. That was unnecessary roughness.

What happened to Maritza left me devastated. That final sequence of her getting into the plane and all the other women who were deported as well slowly disappearing until there was no one left gave me fucking chills. It was tough to watch but it had to be done to make a point of how a good portion of the immigrants who get deported are young adults who have never lived anywhere else besides the US, but still they are not considered citizens.

I absolutely adore Fig. Her character development was one of the best in the show. Also I LOVE HER RELATIONSHIP WITH CAPUTO OMG.

Piper’s sister-in-law is annoying af. I bet she is one of those anti-vaccinations freaks.

Alex looked so damn hot in her flashback oh my god. 

Goodall is adorable! For real, what a gorgeous baby.

I was not expecting CO Fischer to make a comeback.

Healy is still a piece of shit.

I can understand why Piper developed feelings for Zelda. She represented the potential life she could lead now that she was a free woman, the opportunity to start over and leave prison behind (like Sophia advised her to). However, there wasn’t anything exciting about being with her, it was way too safe and that’s the exact opposite of what she had with Alex. 

Polly is even more annoying than she was before but Larry didn’t get on my nerves this time around, which surprised me. Maybe because his little prep talk is what pushed Piper to follow Alex to Ohio or maybe it was the nostalgia. Idk, but they brought him back in a nice way.

I felt really bad for Vinnie. He wasn’t only grieving for his son but he also had to see Lorna fall into that complete state of denial.

Sophia’s comeback was everything. She looked like a goddess and she seemed so happy and in control of her life. I thought we wouldn’t see her again after she got released from prison but I’m glad they managed to bring her back even for a couple of scenes.

Totally random statement but Piper looked very attractive at the benefit gala and the morning after. I don’t know if it was the hair or the way they did her eyes but she was smoking hot.

Danielle Brooks is the best actress in the show. Don’t @ me.

McCullough is the archetype of the psycho ex. I legit thought she was going to shoot Piper when she confronted her at her house.

Alex knows Piper so damn well. She is aware of the fact that Piper tends to run away from stuff when things get complicated and her choosing to have an affair with McCullough was her way to try to protect herself. Then again, I really thought they had moved on from that phase. 

Fig lying about being pregnant to help that woman get an abortion was such a strong moment. Also her calling out the double-standard of the guard who was opposed to the woman aborting but wanted her to get deported? Legends only.

Lorna is such a racist but I can’t bring myself to dislike her. If anything I’ve always felt a bit sorry for her.

Linda is such a bitch.

Tamika was the only warden who actually cared about making a difference. I’m sad she got fired because of something that wasn’t even her fault but her good deeds made a profound impact.

McCullough is so damn unstable but I can’t blame her for developing such strong feelings for Alex. She’s quite irresistible.

Alex acting all unattached and cold as she was breaking up with Piper was painful to watch. I knew it wasn’t real but for a hot second I thought that was it for them. 

The ICE storyline was out-of-this-world amazing. So powerful and brilliantly done, quintessential OITNB.

If you had told me six years ago I would cry like a baby with Pennsatucky’s death I would have laughed at you.

But for real, POOR PENNSATUCKY. I’m sorry she had to die for Taystee to stay alive.

Because of the ‘a fan-favorite character dies in the final episode to mark the end of the show’ trope I had the feeling they were going to kill either Red, Alex or Taystee. I was legit surprised when the final death was revealed to be Pennsatucky.

That Poussey flashback had me in tears.

Alex and Nicky’s goodbye scene was so sweet and I love they talked about eventually reuniting. They were my brotp.

What Larry told Piper when she visited him at his place was very interesting. When Piper told him she loved Alex he told her he believed her, but that he also thought she loved what Alex represented. I believe that was true at some point—well, for most of the series—and, unconsciously, Piper believed that as well. But, if anything, what they went through in season 7 helped Piper realize she did want to be with Alex. The extra limb analogy was amazing and I don’t think Jenji could have picked a better way to explain their relationship.

Hellman is the new warden? Gross.

My favorite part about the old inmates’ cameos was that they were shown doing the same stuff they did in Litchfield: Boo being tired of everyone’s bullshit, Yoga giving the mandala talk to new inmates, Gina feeling exasperated and Norma calming her down, Watson running and Alison checking her time, Angie and Leanne being stupid, Brook mooning over stuff.

I only missed two characters making a cameo: Sister Ingalls and Miss Claudette. I know most fans wanted to see Bennett again but fuck that coward.

Also wtf happened to Bayley? I kinda wanted to know.

Karla’s story broke my heart. I’m glad they included her character because her story is the story of millions of immigrants that are separated from their children, forced to return to their home countries and endure harsh conditions while trying to make their way back to the US.

Blanca really went out there and said “fuck it” to the american dream, didn’t she? In my opinion she had the best ending out of all the characters. I’m so happy she reunited with Diablo and is ready to live her life with him at last. My girl deserved it.

Maria’s storyline was so ‘meh’. It was way too similar to her season 6 storyline.

My mom Gloria had the second best ending. I was afraid they were going to punish her because of the phone thing but thankfully asshole Luschek finally did something right. I was rooting for her to have a happy ending and I’m glad she got it.

Also was that little girl living with Gloria and her kids her granddaughter? Because she was definitely younger than her sons but Gloria’s flashback stated her daughters are older, so I’m confused.

I really need to know if Aleida killed Daya. I hate it was left so open.

Flaca choosing to help immigrants was so sweet. I bet one of the reasons she did it was to stop them from suffering Maritza’s fate.

Fig and Caputo are adopting!

Cindy did not deserve a good ending after she ruined Taystee’s life. That made me so angry. I was really hoping she would confess the truth.

In the end, McCullough made Alex a favor by having her transferred to Ohio. She went back to minimum security, she was with friends and people she knew and far away from all the crap in max.

What happened to Red and Lorna was devastating. Red losing her identity and her memory was so tragic because of what a badass she was. Also I knew Lorna would lose it after her son’s death but it was heartbreaking. They deserved better.

It sucks balls Nicky lost every person who was important to her but despite that I liked her ending because, even though she suffered heartbreak after heartbreak, she found a way to keep herself sober and now she will help others the way Red helped her. It was the best way she could honor her.

Despite literally everyone around Piper advising her to leave Alex behind and forget about her (from her parole officer to her dad to Larry to Sophia) the fact that she chose to follow Alex to Ohio was a pleasant surprise to me. It showed her growth and how much she really wanted to be with Alex, and that she was not a mistake in her life but her life. I was never a Vauseman shipper but even I knew they had to be endgame, any other ending wouldn’t have made any sense. I feel bad for the shippers because it was a very tough season for them but love prevailed, so congrats.

I didn’t catch the Piper Kerman cameo until I saw someone mentioned it on twitter. That was so cool! Also I don’t know if this was intentional but I liked the visual parallel between Larry Smith & Piper and Piper Kerman & Alex. Larry waited for Piper for as long as she was in jail and never abandoned her, so I choose to believe Kenji and Co. are hinting at Piper doing the same thing for Alex.

It was a good decision to show us a glimpse of Piper’s new life. She has a stable job, a new home, she is studying about criminal law and using her time in a productive way, and also she looks happier than we ever saw her.

In conclusion, I liked the season very much. Orange is one of my favorite shows and I think they ended it in a very nice way. It was very well executed and, unlike other final seasons I have watched over the years, it never felt rushed to me. It was the best season in at least a couple of years and I’m in love with the series finale, I stand by my original statement that it is the best one I have ever seen.

I give it a solid B+, four-out-of-five stars, 8.5 out of 10.

Orange forever, indeed.