Season starts off brilliantly, with a terrific first episode (Piper in a Kafka novel), and the introduction of some evocative new characters: the black master villain, the kooky obnoxious brat. It stumbles around the middle mark - Piper's furlough, the return of the guard, a feeling of camp.... and to be honest the series never quite recovers.
The most notable flaw of season one - prisoners too often sounding like writers, with "zinger" one liners - is even worse here, and there are too many scenes which seem lazy, or over the top: cheap gags about the nun character, the Australian, the surprise wedding. Episodes which you'd think would be sure fire aren't eg Piper's furlough - and Poussey is becoming irritatingly perfect.
Still there is brilliance - Vee, the elders, Natasha Lyonne's dialogue, the lesbian sex bet, the revelation about Lorna's past. Even if flawed, remains one of the best series on TV>
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