96% Tomatometer - the series high - earning universal acclaim designation on Metacritic at 89; critics identified Season 2 as the point where the ensemble fully displaced the protagonist as the show's dramatic centre.
Renewal: Seven-season run concluded July 26, 2019 on Netflix. Creator Jenji Kohan and Netflix announced the show's end in 2019. (Variety)
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| Season | Released | BollyMeter | Critics | Audience | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 12013 · 13 eps | 11 July 2013 | 9.0 | 95% | 8.1/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 22014 · 13 eps | 6 June 2014 | 9.1 | 96% | 8.1/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 32015 · 13 eps | 11 June 2015 | 8.5 | 95% | 8.0/10 | WORTH-IT |
| Season 42016 · 13 eps | 17 June 2016 | 8.8 | 94% | 8.1/10 | MUST-WATCH |
| Season 52017 · 13 eps | 9 June 2017 | 6.5 | 71% | 7.2/10 | ONE-TIME WATCH |
| Season 62018 · 13 eps | 27 July 2018 | 7.5 | 85% | 7.4/10 | WORTH-IT |
| Season 72019 · 13 eps | 26 July 2019 | 8.8 | 98% | 7.8/10 | MUST-WATCH |
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Full episode review →The hour opens with **Piper** absorbing prison life by force, then immediately pulls the focus outward as the yard, the showers, and the cafeteria start behaving like a new social order with its own rules. The episode’s engine is **Piper learning that “privacy” is a myth in this
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Full episode review →The episode’s opening movement is deceptively small: a new woman’s arrival turns the prison’s “order” into a bargaining table. The hour watches the women size up each other fast. It turns out the real wall in here is not concrete. It is language, race-coded fear, and the quiet po
Full episode review →The hour starts with the kind of small prison decision that carries a huge echo. Sifting through contraband politics and status games, the episode tightens its focus on how quickly “normal” rules get replaced by survival ones. BollyAI’s read: this is where Season 1 stops feeling
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Full episode review →The hour sets its trap early, not with violence, but with procedure. A new arrival needs translating, a group needs managing, and a promise gets made in the language of safety. Then the episode shows the cost of that promise when dignity is treated like something you can ration.
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Full episode review →The show spends this hour walking **Piper** through a very “prison admin” kind of fear. Not the big, cinematic violence. The paperwork fear. The shift-schedule fear. The fear of being categorized, transferred, and reduced to a case number. And once Piper learns the system can mov
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Full episode review →The hour tightens its focus inside women’s prison bureaucracy by making the small rules feel like life-or-death decisions. It stages moments of institutional cruelty through procedure, not spectacle, and it uses the knock-on effects of one administrative call to put the ensemble’
Full episode review →A court order, a checklist of paperwork, and a prison routine that pretends it is only administration. But the episode uses procedure like pressure. A small decision becomes a domino, and the camera keeps returning to the same truth the season has been circling: in this place, po
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