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After six seasons, a TV show should feel like coming home. It's something familiar, a constant whose guaranteed presence anchors us as the rest of the world ticks by.

The latest season of Orange is the New Blackhas that lived-in feeling, though there is a growing sense that we're running out of time and it might be time to say goodbye.

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After a fifth season that underwhelmed most critics (not this one, who loves a good bottle ep or 13), Season 6 returns to a kind of equilibrium, where the status quo is gang wars and drug smuggling and there are an awful lot of shivs floating around.

Picking up shortly after the three-day riot at Litchfield, Season 6 finds the inmates who were sequestered at the swimming pool at the end of Season 5, moved to Litchfield's maximum-security sister prison.

The others – including Diane Guerrero's Maritza and Lea DeLaria's Boo – are barely heard from all season, if at all. Piper (Taylor Schilling) spends the first few episodes badgering everyone "Where's Alex?" (Laura Prepon) like she's Michael screaming about Walt in Season 2 of Lost.

The Season 5 riot, for all its perils and promise, streamlined Orange by giving it a central, driving theme. Peripheral plot lines meandered, but they couldn't stray too far because the riot affected everyone.

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In Season 6, the show takes some time to get back into its old groove. When it does, some storylines feel half-baked. A feud carried over from the riot, a murder attempt in a bathroom – conflicts bubble up, fizzle out, and end up as filler around a trial inquisition and imminent repercussions.

The pacing and structure are all over the pace, and it's never clear why certain characters and storylines are prioritized over others. You wouldn't be remiss to fast forward scenes of Caputo (Nick Sandow) and Natalie (Alysia Reiner), or to wonder why the heck we don't dive more into the riot's frightening effects on C.O. McCullough (Emily Tarver).

Also superfluous are the new characters, none of whom really make an impression except Sipiwe Moyo's scene-stealing Adeola. She doesn't get her own flashback, but two others do: Daddy (Vicci Martinez), whose screentime is spent trying to court Daya (Dascha Polanco) between drug running and battling gender bigotry; and Badison (Amanda Fuller), who grows more cumbersome with every episode and feels like a haphazard attempt to recreate Season 1 Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning).

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I'd gladly trade both their episodes for more about Freida (Dale Soules), whose flashback in episode 3 sets up a bigger picture of the season. She was in max 30 years ago, caught in a war between two sisters leading their respective cell block gangs – and in the present, they're still very much alive and in power.

But even that isn't set up as well as it could be, although we do witness Freida's visceral fear and a moment of recognition with one of her old enemies. From there, the pacing falters again. Several episodes pass before we start to understand the scope of the sisters' influence or understand why Freida fears them so. The season picks up between episodes 7-10 as it finally seems to drive toward an endgame.

Though removed from the rest of the story, Taystee's (Danielle Brooks) arc is pivotal. As the de facto leader of the riot, her neck is on the line for the death of Piscatella (Brad William Henke), even though she's innocent. Daya also faces consequences for shooting C.O. Humphrey, but they're inside the prison walls; she's abused almost daily by the guards and turns to drugs to deal with the pain. It's dark!

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After six years, we've grown accustomed to the shifting tones of Orange, a show that's branded as a comedy in awards show submissions but is no stranger to physical and emotional pain. Every character or story in this season interprets "dramedy" differently: Lorna (Yael Stone) has a lot of lighter fare, the affianced Piper and Alex get a mix, and Taystee's arc is full drama (and quality work from Brooks). At times, the show embraces its multitudes simultaneously, which makes for some fine dark comedy.

With a seventh season confirmed but no word beyond that, the end may be near for Orange is the New Black. Season 6 ushers us, in part, back to how the story began and the show that broke big for Netflix back in 2013. There won't be happy endings for a lot of these characters purely because of their circumstances, but there can at least be resolution.

Here's hoping we actually get it.

Orange is the New BlackSeason 6 is now streaming on Netflix.

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