Orange is the New Black

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Season 4
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 11, 2013
Season #: 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 291 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 257 out of 291
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 291
  3. Negative: 21 out of 291
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  1. kuehnau
    Jun 18, 2016
    5
    What started off as an interesting, unique and fresh show, has started to slowly stagnate over each new season that is aired.

    It's all pretty much what you expect from Orange is the New Black, at the same time it's also all mostly stuff we've seen before. By the time season 4 starts to become really interesting, suddenly the season is over. Season cliff hangers aren't anything new,    What started off as an interesting, unique and fresh show, has started to slowly stagnate over each new season that is aired.

    It's all pretty much what you expect from Orange is the New Black, at the same time it's also all mostly stuff we've seen before.

    By the time season 4 starts to become really interesting, suddenly the season is over. Season cliff hangers aren't anything new, but why are they still completely acceptable? It isn't like the show can't wrap up a story arc and we wouldn't come back.

    I was completely unsatisfied with how the season ended. Instead of having multiple stories in a single season, it'd be nice if they could focus on a single story and wrap it up by the end of the season.

    Season 4 really suffers from a lot of filler content as well that distracts from the overall stories being told. It's perfectly acceptable to explain part of a characters back story when it is necessary. The issue with season 4 is they are constantly doing this with a majority of the characters and more times then not, it's nothing more then fluff, it does not contribute to the over all story being told and in the end is designed simply to waste our time.

    The writers need to start working a little harder with season 5 or it may be the last time I ever watch Orange is the New Black.    … Expand

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Metascore
86

Universal acclaim - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Jun 23, 2016
    100
    Orange loses little steam in its fourth tour of duty, with extremes of dark comedy and bitter tragedy, often heartbreaking in its depiction of metal illness and addiction, devastating in its escalation of racial conflict after the prison's cold-blooded new corporate owners flood the cell block with new bodies, triggering a demographic power shift. [27 Jun - 10 Jul 2016, p.15]
  2. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Caroline Framke
    Jun 20, 2016
    90
    The new status quo and even more skewed power balances within the prison doesn’t just test every single character. It pushes all of them to their limits, and eventually throws them right the hell off the cliff they’ve been teetering on the edge of.
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  3. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Kevin Fallon
    Jun 17, 2016
    80
    Orange Is the New Black itself, which has grown richer, more surprising, and ambitious in its fourth season. That doesn’t always mean it’s better than ever--often it isn’t--but is just as admirable as ever.
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