Thread:Milks26/@comment-26247132-20160307011504/@comment-26247132-20160621164652

So, I've made it to episode 10 and I'm about done with OitNB and haven't even gotten to the poorly handled racist/BYG death yet (episode 12, apparently). The writing has gone down significantly the last couple of episodes and the pacing is off.

I was liking what they were doing with the Judy King (Martha Stewart) storyline but then they took a massive left turn that was more head-scratchingly odd than interesting/entertaining. The guards are all Milgram experimenting on the prisoners and the white supremacist stuff is laughable, like caricatures of what the writers think racists are: stupid, drug-addled imbeciles. (After what I heard goes down in episode 12, the writers should take a long, hard look in the mirror to see their own subconscious racism reflected back.)

Basically, they fell into the same pitfalls of every other colossal piece of crap churned out this season: taking things too far into extreme depravity just to see how far they can go. I blame GoTs for making writers think this is something people actually want to see in all their shows when all it's done is make everything predictably awful and meaningless. The world is already that depraved. If I really wanted that shit, I'd watch a documentary.