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Consensus on Orange is the New Black's fifth season? I think it was a good, solid season and any OITNB is good for me, but it's definitely the weakest in the show's run so far. The riot could have been a great experiment but for the first time ever it seemed like the show was stalling. It actually seemed like it

A B??? This was one of the best of the season.

Let's be real, Alison has and always will be the best clone.

Having seen the entire season, clearly this and Thanksgiving were the best episodes of the season.

Those last few minutes, with the reveal on why electronics didn't seem to work on Gloria and then her finally achieving "recognition" in the bathroom, might have been one of my favorite moments in all three seasons. Beautiful.

I think this is a brilliant film that mainstream audiences will unfortunately not really get. A D cinemascore? Really?

Last week's episode made me wonder "Wait, are Laura Moon and Mad Sweeney the show's best characters?" This episode felt like a direct answer to that question. So far, yes, they are. I'm much more invested in them than in Shadow/Wednesday.

I get that this isn't a conventional horror film, by mainstream audience standards. But I don't think we should be tossing out the label "horror" only to those films that follow very strict horror conventions. This may not be that, but it's still a psychological horror film at its core. I fear that by resisting to

Really only watching this for Kim Dickens. Thank god it wasn't her who died.

Seriously!

No other show can do stuff like this and get away with it. The ONLY reason any of this works is because Lynch is behind it all, and no one can direct scenes like him. 5 episodes in, not a lot of plot, a lot of wackiness and weirdness and atmosphere, but aside from that, not much else. That sounds like a criticism, and

I think it was absolutely perfect. It was everything it needed to be. I'm someone who actually loved the Lost finale, but mostly for the sideways/not-island stuff that went on because that was the emotional core of the show. I always felt that The Leftovers was in a better spot to not piss off its core fanbase because

A hint of advice- Maybe try not to say "a hint of homo" to refer to the possibility of someone being gay? Because let me tell you, it's offensive.

It's not "boring" to everyone, clearly.

I'd rather this than have a bullshit, contrived final scene where a DEA agent randomly happens to read a book in the toilet that magically happens to be the book he needed all along to solve the show's biggest mystery. Just completely random and incidental, and completely contrived. Then again, this show has always

Season 4 was "boring"? Wow.

What's the point of this comment, seriously?

Overall thoughts on season 5 of The Americans? In the middle of the season many viewers, even those who had never had a problem with the show's pacing before, started to get restless. Personally, I understand that frustration. At times this season slowed things down even further. However, by the end I come out of it

I'm surprised by seeing so many people on here saying they're expecting to be disappointed next week due to a lack of "closure" or "explanation." Has it not been clear for a while now this show is not intending to do that? Why have those same hopes?

"You want to an existential show about a random rapture and a cult of chain smoking mutes as the bad guys where we never find out why the rapture happened? OK, but don't throw crap at us like Kevin's deaths and rebirths and alternate universes and stuff like tonight. "
This has been going on for two seasons now, and