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Why Orange Is the New Black Doesn’t Need Its Flashbacks Anymore But even that ending, though emotionally honest to the characters given all that we’ve learned about them, doesn’t track with the rest of their arc this season and it therefore comes off as forced. Then, Flaca and Maritza are dramatically separated at the end of the finale, as the prisoners are sorted into different buses to be sent to new prisons. Rather, “Stormy Weather” attempts to ascribe deeper meaning to their vlogging shenanigans, with Maritza reflecting on how the riot offered a cruel taste of freedom.
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Early on, their YouTube channel sparked some jealousy between the two pals, but that doesn’t amount to anything. Flaca and Maritza similarly served as comic relief this season. Although she has been a strong character in past seasons, Red’s role in the riot is more plot point than character. Red and Flores acted as comic relief in the first several episodes, but then out of nowhere, Red’s war with Piscatella became an outsized part of the narrative. Clearly, the show couldn’t lock in Laverne Cox for more than a few episodes, resulting in a complete lack of follow through for the character.Īnd then there are the character arcs that just don’t make sense. Suzanne functions more as a part of Taystee’s arc than standing on her own. Even Gloria and Maria’s arcs fizzled, despite standing out as compelling character work in the middle of the season.
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Daya confesses to shooting Humps, and then nothing really comes of it. But looking at the season as a whole, it feels like the writers hastily wrote characters off without any real sense of closure to their arcs. I’m all for OITNB culling its too-large ensemble cast, as I believe the size of its cast contributed to the season’s downfalls. But it’s also the result of a season that never really found its footing, the culmination of an unfocused narrative that threw several story lines onto the wall to see if they would stick. “Stormy Weather” is harrowing, tense, and striking in its imagery, with powerful performances from some of the show’s standout stars. But because of that condensed timeline, far too many of those story lines never led to any real payoff. Despite the condensed nature of the riot timeline, OITNB unfolded many, many story lines this season. With all the pieces of Orange Is the New Black’s fifth season finally in place, it’s easy to see how changes to the show’s narrative structure affected the quality of its storytelling.