TV Review: Orange Is the New Black Season 7 🍊🧡

Orange Is the New Black closes out its series with one of the best conclusions I’ve ever seen on a television show.

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Uzo Aduba stars in OITNB as Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren. CREDIT: Netflix

This post for Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) Season 7 is spoiler-free.

For characters that have been with me for so long, I feel sad that I will no longer be able to see how they’re doing on the small screen. In the final season of Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) (2013-2019, created by Jenji Kohan), audiences got to see the stories of Piper (Taylor Schilling), Alex (Laura Prepon), Suzanne (Uzo Aduba), Taystee (Danielle Brooks), Black Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore), Nicky (Natasha Lyonne), Lorna (Yael Stone) and Red (Kate Mulgrew), all come to an end.

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TV Review: Russian Doll Season 1 🇷🇺🎎

There seems to be more to Russian Doll than its constant cycle of repetition.

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Natasha Lyonne stars as Nadia Vulvokov in Russian Doll. CREDIT: Netflix

This post for Russian Doll Season 1 contains spoilers.

Fans of Netflix’s hit show Orange Is The New Black may recognise Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll (2019, created by Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland), where she plays a 36-year-old software engineer named Nadia Vulvokov who is trapped in a time loop she can’t seem to get out of. Every time Nadia dies, she returns to her 36th birthday party at her best friend Maxine’s (Greta Lee) apartment.

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