But it was also a desperate gamble by a creative team that hadn’t expected to have to fill one more year, had a specific event they felt had to be held until right before the end, and had a small cast and 24 episodes in which they had to do… something. That HIMYM experiment was a disaster on almost every level (well before we got to the finale where the Mother… well, you know). How I Met Your Mother‘s swan song took place over Robin and Barney’s wedding weekend. It’s not even the first show to try to stretch out a three-day span in the lives of the characters across a whole season. Creator Jenji Kohan’s Weeds reinvented itself every year for the second half of its run (with fandom split widely over whether this was a good idea), and FX’s Archer has done the same recently. Orange isn’t the first series to radically alter its format for a single season. But she could just as easily be asking about the decision to set this whole fifth season (it debuts Friday I’ve seen all 13 episodes) across the three days that the riot lasts. She’s wondering about the costs and benefits of the riot and the siege that followed, which led to violence at times and intense peace and joy at others.
Late in the new season of Orange Is the New Black, as the prison riot that’s gripped Litchfield appears to be nearing an end, an inmate asks, “So was it worth it?”
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