Dear Jenji Kohan
[this letter contains spoilers about all five seasons of Orange is the New Black ) Dear Jenji Kohan, I finally finished watching season 5 of Orange is the New Black . Yes, it took me seven months, but this season was intense . That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it was definitely hard for me to watch more than one episode in a sitting. I've been watching since the beginning , and this season made me realize just how complicated my relationship with this show is. It's still one of the shows I love the most, simply because of how you manage to incorporate so many diverse voices and offer a rare perspective on so many lives, inside and outside of prison. Yet, increasingly, I think you have a pacing problem. After five seasons, spread across five years, only ten months have passed on tv. Perhaps this pacing affects me because of how different my life looks than it did in 2013, when I watched season one in a single day with a few glasses of wine. When season 2 premie...