Jun 25, 2016 S4 > S3. Focusing less on Piper's cracka a--- worked. The show's strength is in the diversity of it's cast and their background stories. Maritza, Maria (El Leon is one of the least believable Dominican portrayals I think I've ever seen tho), Lolly's flashbacks were the best. Episode 12 was a tough one to watch. Decent season overall.
Jun 26, 2016 Not sure if I posted here already but Caught first two seasons of this show cause my roommate was watching last semester and I have to say After the first few episodes the show loses any edge at all to everyone except girls (and guys) that only watch cable television and don't know how gritty true shows can get. The viewers that post about this overrated show on Facebook. After the initial edge of the show disperses, all that's left is corny cliche story lines and character interactions that again, should only impress people who don't watch actual dramatic television...has no actual direction and it actually got hard for me to watch because it was so tame and predictable on a scene to scene basis lol. The cast is not 'diverse', at least not in a positive way because when I see people act like it is I want to puke. It's deliberately trying to be diverse and comes off very poorly. Throwing together a bunch of different races and character cultures does not mask painfully stale characters and mediocre writing. Honestly and it's just my opinion, can't speak for the half of the show I haven't watched, but it is like HBOesque television light, meant to impress the audience of people that enjoy the mature tones and visuals that they aren't used to but have no true standard for good writing and so they cling to this show as if it's really groundbreaking or unique. It's not. There are way more shows with more inventive plots, more diverse casts, and better acting that all have better writing than this show. EDIT: another thing I just thought of: the constant shoehorning in of different tropes like lesbians, rapists, druggies, transsexuals, races etc. it's so deliberate and just annoying. I guess that's the point of the show. But hey, whatever it's doing it sure works though so more power to them I guess-- just not my cup of tea.
Jun 26, 2016 real n----- confession here. i shed some tears at the ending of the last two episodes much much better than s3. the way it ended looks like a good set up for s5. hope they don't ever back track to s3 tier quality writing
Jul 2, 2016 I thought the writing on this season was much better than last year, but a lot of stuff that did just felt forced. The writers touched on a topic and issues that I doubt they really know anything about. It just feels like they gravitated toward something that's a hot button topic in America and tried to make a profit out of it. They completely deviated from the storyline and there was a bunch of other stuff they could've wrote about. Like where is Daya's baby daddy, how did that guard sneak into the prison, and they could've done something better with Piper's storyline.
