When done right, final seasons can be major legacy boosters and Jenji Kohan and the Orange Is the New Black team have delivered a final season done right.
Emmy nominee for both outstanding drama and comedy series and petri dish for an all-time great ensemble cast, Orange sometimes doesn’t get the credit it’s due as possibly Netflix’s signature prestige show. Maybe it’s the steady avalanche of big and buzzy Netflix programming that can leave even the biggest and buzziest of shows lost in a screener drift, or maybe it’s just a run of ambitious-but-mixed recent seasons, but the legacy of Orange Is the New Black has become more muddied than it should be.
