Welcome to the final Orange is the New Black comment section of the season, and thus the end of the "post all the reviews on day one" experiment made possible by screeners of the entire season being available and the binge-ready nature of the season itself. It is an experiment, though, so we really do want a sense of…

The season as a whole is a B for me, for what it's worth, but I'm hoping the review itself captures some of the criticism you outline here. Grading always comes last, and in this case I felt like this episode was well-made without necessarily solving the season's problems, if that makes sense. (Also: I cannot express…

Basically, this release structure untethers the release of the review from the expectation that people have actually seen it. That's a shift, but these weren't really being posted at a pace that we expected anyone to watch it: it was more at a pace where they were spread out through the day. We might have put them all…

GET OUT. (I am not the boss of you, you can do what you please, but I needed to say that anyway.)

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That's a fair point, although United was still pretending that this was just a minor hiccup the next day, whereas here it seems like it gets IMMEDIATE results. The cycle is just too condensed: it's fast today, it's true, but it's not this fast.

Although Ricky's saintly nature meant there's no actual spoilers here, no one else should take this as a chance to discuss the season as a whole. The finale review is thataway.

I challenge anyone who claims anything in these headlines constitutes a spoiler for anything other than the season following the rules of dramatic structure.

We acknowledge this as an experiment, in line with a season that's itself an experiment. And while I relate to your frustrations with inconsistency, I don't think all shows would necessarily work with a single model: this season of OITNB is very binge-focused, but some shows don't fit that. It's also, frankly, an…

I REALLY underestimated the number of people who would comment on later reviews in confusion instead of going back and reading the first review where the plan is explained in some detail. That's on me. (We've had the whole season for a month.)

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Welcome to the Orange is the New Black comment section—as always, a reminder these comments are intended only for those who have seen up to this episode, so avoid spoiling or alluding to future episodes in your discussion—move those to the reviews for the final three episodes. I know you were as shocked as I was when…

There's really no way to unwrite the code, unfortunately, to keep this from happening.

From a writer's perspective, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is probably where we're at. The logic here is to basically make all the reviews available and let people read and comment at their own pace. The issue is that it creates the optics on the homepage or on RSS feeds that we're expecting EVERYONE to have watched them, since that's…

To be fair, I don't think the first day is really the test here: the question is whether people come to the reviews as they watch over the weekend. But yes, for clarity's sake, I've had screeners for the whole season for a month, which is atypical but sometimes happens.

Hyena, this isn't the finale, so I'm deleting this—stick to details from this episode, and leave the whole season comments for the finale review.

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I just sort of presumed that people would read the first review first, but you're right about the homepage problem.