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Season 4 of 'Orange Is the New Black': It's Nearly Time
The following essay discusses plot points throughout Flavour 4 of "Orange Is the New Black," available in its entirety on Netflix.
The fourth season of "Orangish Is the New Black" takes the series' theme song — "You've Got Time," past Regina Spektor — more literally than e'er.
Any prison story is focused on time: doing information technology, counting it. But this flavour, time becomes concrete, in the class of a cardboard and foil "fourth dimension motorcar" that the mentally unsettled Lolly (Lori Petty) builds in Litchfield prison. It's a box inside a box, a hibernate-out and refuge.
Finding Lolly sitting within this symbol, Healy (Michael Harney), the prison counselor, gives her a well-meaning, paternalistic speech. "Everyone wants to go dorsum in time sometimes," he says. "But it'southward not possible. All we can do is brand the virtually of correct at present."
"I've tried that," Lolly says. "Only traveling back in fourth dimension simply seemed more than, you know, viable."
Yes, existence able to change your past is a fantasy. But, argues this furious, jam-packed and (eventually) very good flavor, and so is the homiletic idea that you tin merely turn things effectually past focusing on the now — especially if you're spending that now in a place that encourages the worst and squashes the best.
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(Speaking of things that can't exist undone: spoilers for the full season lie ahead. This is your last warning, inmate.)
The season's story drive comes from another lyric in that theme song: "The animals" — the phrase that gives the title to the 12th and best episode — "trapped, trapped, trapped 'til the cage is full." Prison ways having all kinds of time and very little space, and there's even less of the latter to go around now.
That'due south considering Litchfield prison, run by the for-profit visitor MCC, is being crammed with more women, for "xxx grand per caput in a bed," as an executive describes the government payout. It's a mercenary operation, now staffed by mercenaries — ex-military correctional officers who see themselves as an occupying force.
The show's creator, Jenji Kohan, and her writers accept a lot to say well-nigh the prison-industrial complex, and more likewise. The flavor echoes the ascent of alt-right white-supremacist politics equally Piper (Taylor Schilling) finds her "task force" condign a racist gang, and the death of Poussey (the luminous Samira Wiley) pointedly recalls the Eric Garner chokehold case.
Just while the resonances are blaring, the characters are circuitous. The dynamic between Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning) and the corrections officer Coates (James McMenamin) is a lesson in treating rape as an act with lasting repercussions, as she decides to forgive him for her ain sake and he wavers betwixt guilt and denial. It's messy — it's deeply uncomfortable to come across her kiss him — but believable for each character.
The new celebrity inmate, Judy King (Blair Chocolate-brown), is another "Orange" graphic symbol who simultaneously defies and lives upwards to blazon. She'southward downwards to earth — merely not so much that she'll reject a individual room. She has a racist past, yet her contrived-for-the-tabloids smooch with Blackness Cindy (Adrienne Moore) leads to real, if fraught, camaraderie.
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Similar Litchfield, "Orangish" has taken on a lot of bodies. The mammoth bandage allows it a truthful multifariousness few series manage. Poussey's death, for instance, came after fans have protested other serial for killing off a spate of other gay characters, frequently later a teasing moment of happiness. (Poussey had simply settled into a relationship with Soso, played past Kimiko Glenn.) But different most other series, this ane is still teeming with important, well-drawn Fifty.Grand.B.T.Q. characters.
The prove has rotated its deep demote, letting some characters recede and others step forward. Laverne Cox's Sophia has a limited, though harrowing, arc in solitary confinement this season, while Laura Gómez finds the coal-eyed intensity in the newly revolutionary Blanca.
Nevertheless, the drive to service dozens of characters leaves a lot of plot to juggle. Like many Netflix series, "Orange" could easily stand to exist cut by 25 percentage — though, granted, any given viewer would probably choose a different 25 pct.
But midway through, the season comes into focus as the conflict with the guards, under the harsh Officeholder Piscatella (Brad William Henke), becomes not just dysfunctional but terrifying. The last two of the 13 episodes are and so remarkable equally to heighten an aesthetic question for the age of slow-build streaming shows: Do you measure the quality of a TV flavour as a offset-to-end average or past how well it ends?
By the start yardstick, Season 4 is aggressive just uneven; by the latter, information technology's the series' best. The words of the ineffectual Warden Caputo (Nick Sandow), "This place crushes anything good," come truthful, equally the near reluctant participant in the prisoners' fateful animosity ends upwards suffocated by Litchfield'southward meekest guard, Bayley (Alan Aisenberg), and the most savage — for at present, at to the lowest degree — prosper.
It all leads to a riot — a sharp contrast with the hopeful chaos of Season three's prison pause at the lake — and Dayanara (Dascha Polanco) clutching a gun in the hand that used to hold her drawing pen. You see something shift in her one time-daydreamy eyes, and maybe in the series itself (which has at to the lowest degree three seasons left). This seems to exist going somewhere new, and not somewhere uplifting.
For uplift, you can only await back. The time motorcar returns one more fourth dimension in the finale, equally Leanne (Emma Myles) and Angie (Julie Lake) drunkenly determine that it'due south bad luck and tear it to bits. Poussey, meanwhile, gets a posthumous flashback that leaves her at the cease of a charmed night in New York Metropolis, smiling and total of seeming possibility. She can't travel back in time. Only at least nosotros tin can.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/arts/television/season-4-of-orange-is-the-new-black-its-about-time.html
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