New exciting stories come up in the sixth season of the crime-comedy series Orange Is the New Black . In this season we see Caputo attached in a serious situation with the the feds, and he tries to get out of it. Linda plays the boss role and she is about to cause a series of troubles with the others.
Orange Is the New Black remains a worthwhile series... But the show's commitment to telling all of its stories has become wildly overgrown, like a tree desperately in need of pruning.
I asked myself if I hadn't had my fill of the whole thing... And then there would be a great scene, or even just a reminder of how much I enjoyed spending time in the company of Nicky or Gloria, and I happily kept going.
The good news -- for us, if not for the long-suffering female inmates of Litchfield -- is that Season 6 is a return to near-peak form for a series that helped put Netflix on the map.
The show enters its sixth season, however, looking like a fashion that's faded out of style, one that hasn't cleared the prison walls but which, in TV terms, has pretty clearly jumped the shark.
It's definitely -- especially for early fans -- something that's still worth watching, and tells so many stories that deserve to be told. There's a lot of stumbling throughout, but there are glimmers of its old spirit.
If you don't have the patience to wait out the bumpy beginnings (and middles), I don't blame you. But in Season 6, just as in past seasons, something good awaits the persistent.
For all its faults, this is still compelling viewing. The cast are wonderful, and the writing sharp as a tack. And for all the discomfort of watching this brutality and injustice, the sombre tone is not unearned.
Time moves faster in this new 13-part run, though it's not always easy to tell - and surely, in real life, only prison can rival the dullest school lessons when it comes to the agonisingly slow passage of time.
