Orange Is the New Black Season 2: Slate's Spoiler Special

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Slate's Willa Paskin, June Thomas, David Haglund and L.V. Anderson discuss season two of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black. WARNING: This podcast is meant to be heard AFTER you've seen the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Slate Spoiler Special is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website or online portfolio.
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0:17.4	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:21.1	Hi, and welcome to a Slate spoiler special about season two of Netflix's, Orange is the New Black.
0:26.8	Orange appeared in its entirety on Netflix on Friday, and we here have devoured all of it to discuss it in great detail with you.
0:34.1	I'm Willa Paskin. I'm Slate's TV critic, and I'm joined today by Slate's culture
0:38.3	critic, June Thomas. Hello, Willa Paskin. Slate senior editor, David Hagland. Hi, Willa.
0:43.4	And Slate assistant editor, Laura Anderson. Hi, Willa. Hi, guys. I'm really excited to talk
0:49.6	about this show. I've been saving it up every single one of my thoughts. So I thought we would
0:54.0	just start by maybe going around and talking about if we liked it or not. this show. I've been saving it up every single one of my thoughts. So I thought we would just
0:54.1	start by maybe going around and talking about if we liked it or not compared to maybe last
0:59.1	season, June. OMG, O-I-N-T-B. I really loved it, but if I'm forced to compare it with last
1:07.0	season, I guess I didn't like it quite as much, but I was very impressed with the way
1:12.3	that they had kind of held back some people.
1:15.0	So there were still a few backstories, which is something that I really enjoy seeing.
1:19.6	And it still managed to surprise me, which was the really huge thing about the first season
1:24.2	was that there were some surprises that so unusual on television.
1:27.2	And they still managed to pull that trick in season two. So that was good. Yeah, I liked it.
1:31.7	Yeah, I think the element of surprise is important because for me, I also liked it a little bit less,
1:36.9	and I wonder to what extent that's because the show was not quite as good as it was in the first season,
1:42.3	or whether it was just that it was no longer so surprising.
1:45.0	The first season was such a breath of fresh air.
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