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I’ll be interested to know everyone’s personal top 10s (if people feel up to sharing) when this is all said and done and compare it against the voted list
[adrotate group="5"]"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Soso dealing with her grief was well done, it just got a tad boring at times. But there were some good conversations in there, and it was pleasing to see her return to her activist self towards the end.
The last Soso shot of the season where she’s being dragged from the library and the camera switches to her perspectives watching the books fall from the ceiling was haunting and well done.
Also, Alex’s guilt over bloody Aden got really old. It was self defense – he was sent to kill her for heaven’s sake!!
Completely agree with this.
I also find both the character and his storyline culturally problematic. OITNB has had two significant gay male characters so far. One was a adultering, embezzling politician and the other a misogynistic, abusive guard. Both hurt women with impunity and were given no sympathetic motivation. Does anyone else find this problematic?
Yes, extremely. Especially given how layered the lesbian characters tend to be. OITNB gets lauded for its complex LGBT storylines and diversity, but it’s hard to praise them when there seems to be a deep gay male resentment written in there.
Finally, there was Alison. It’s wonderful that the show has a Muslim character, complete with a hijab. All the dialogue about prejudice and whatnot is highly pertinent. So if the goal is to increase acceptance of Muslims, why on EARTH put your only Muslim character in a polyamorous marriage?!!
The opening of that flashback with Alison and her husband sitting at a diner, eating, and discussing various issues in their home life with quick wit was perfect. What better way to de-otherize Muslims than to show that they’re just like every other family unit in America? Then it went down the polyamorous route and it quickly turned into foreign territory.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"6th Place – Desperate Souls
Personally, my 4th favorite. 🙁
Vote for your top 3 favorite episodes once again. Vote by Saturday 7 PM Central, and we will have our 5th ranking episode! Happy voting!
Voted!
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"OOH I’m even more excited than I was before if that is possible. Do we want to try and guess what the second borrow is?
Given that it’s a Master heavy episode, I think something from the RTD era.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"So Henry married Latina Emma? Henry basically married his mothers?
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I wonder if they are getting a different costume designer if they are trying to create a different style for the show. I wonder if it will be less fairytale like now somehow.
My guess is that they’ll keep Castro’s clothes in circulation for flashbacks/EF stuff but let the new guy dress the present day modern peoples.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Sounds like Eduardo is not returning for S7. Not creating a separate post for this yet since it’s just a screen cap of a conversation and not anything super official.
Also, from EFNewservice:
In that screencap he says that Bob Blackman will be taking over. He’s won 3 Emmy Awards as a costume designer and is best known for doing approximately a billion episodes of Star Trek.
Bob Blackman is a very serious costume designer. This is not a budget cut move.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Cult Box’s spoiler free review of the finale! It sounds amazing 🙂
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"rather an overly-comfortable suburban neighbourhood bounded by Ordinary Street and Normal Boulevard
True. It’s like a subdivision name.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"I wouldn’t put a whole lot of stock in anything she says in the audition vid. You hear all the time (when actors are asked at conventions) how when an actor auditioned for a particular part they had no idea who the character actually was, they weren’t even given the character’s real name, they weren’t reading a scene that was actually relevant to who they’d be in the show, and it wasn’t until after they booked the gig that they found out the actual details of who their character is and what they’d be doing.
I agree.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"
