History YMMV / OrangeIsTheNewBlack

** Healy has one at the end of the season finale, when he [[spoiler: turns his back on Pennsatucky knowing that she is about to try to stab Piper to death]].

** Pennsatucky crosses it when she [[spoiler: tries to kill Piper]]. [[spoiler: While in her first murder it could be chalked up to the society she lived in, this was in no way justifiable.]]

** The "The prison system is broken and needs fixing, and convicts and ex-cons alike aren't treated fairly" message was obvious the first dozen times. By the time Alex gets a close-up when stating that "nobody cares about an ex-con," it's almost a redundant message. And then when the prison gets privatised, they ramp up the exact same message just with "privatised for-profit prisons are broken."
** A season three episode elaborates how the representation of women in media, particularly by the beauty standards is artificial and inaccurate, because in reality women appear in various sizes, shapes, ages and races. Watching the show in which women appear in various sizes, shapes, ages and races, most of the viewers have probably gotten the memo long ago.
** The preferential treatment shown to white people in the prison and within society at large. Black and latino inmates often must shoulder additional burdens that are not felt by their fellow white inmates, who are sometimes ignorant of the fact that they exist. The minority inmates are never shy about pointing it out whenever it happens.

** Sam Healy. A fair number of fans actually do feel sympathy for him, given that, from what we've seen of his personal life and upbringing, he is deeply lonely and rightly feels that his overtures are not appreciated. However, the fact remains that a large number of fans have not forgiven him for his actions in the first season finale, which have yet to be addressed or answered for, nor do they believe that his more overtly villainous behavior should be excused so easily.

** Stella. Some viewers like her because she's portrayed by Ruby Rose, is extremely attractive, and helped to shake up the Piper and Alex dynamic. However other viewers find her character boring and pointless. It doesn't help that Stella is the only inmate who always has a full face of perfect make up and neat hair, everyone else looks more 'realistically' tired and unkempt.

*** Nicky and Lorna's sexual relationship, for a similar but more subtle reason: some fans find the sexual tension between them cute and prefer it to Morello's often unhealthy relationships with men; others are disturbed by [[spoiler:Nicky's increasingly aggressive attempts to resume their sexual relationship after her return from Max, despite Lorna loudly and repeatedly saying she's married to someone else and doesn't want to]].

** The quality of season 3. Some fans feel that the season focused too much on the characters at the expense of building an overarching plot, that certain plot elements were pointless (Such as the entire character of Stella) and that the subplots became increasingly cartoonish (mainly in regards to Piper's panty business and Suzanne's erotic fiction), making the prison feel more like a summer camp than it had in the previous seasons. Other fans love the character focus and more laid back pace, and praise the payoffs of the last few episode.

* CrazyAwesome: Season 4 will probably leave you with some newfound respect for Flores. Punished by a guard to stand on a cafeteria table, she withstands ''days'' pissing and shitting herself in the process and only gets down when the whole prison gets a lockdown. And at the end of the season [[spoiler:she is the first one to protest against Piscatella's treatment of Red, by getting on that table again and inspiring every inmate in the room to follow her footsteps]].

** Gina needs to get into the front office where Luschek is hiding, and he won't let her in. [[{{Squick}} She sticks her hands in her pants and wipes menstrual blood all over herself]], then proceeds to shout about how it's "Aurora, Colorado out here, and we're all in the movie theatre".
** [[spoiler:Judy King]] getting "crossed" and nearly thrown off the roof by two neo-Nazis poorly disguised as Muslim fundamentalists.

** You wouldn't think a BungledSuicide could be hilarious, but [[spoiler: Bayley's attempt by drinking non-toxic dog hair dye, and his family's utter indifference]] manage to do it.

** While as not as bad as some of the other men, Bennett has done a lot of things wrong (like having sex with an inmate and not even wearing a condom being the biggest) but they get overlooked and he's considered the nicest guy by fandom because he's attractive. It seems to have ended by the time when [[spoiler:he leaves Daya and the prison, seemingly for good.]]

** Soso has no friends, is completely unable to adjust for prison life and at one point was almost being sold for a blanket. She was also used and coldly dumped by Nicky, and is bullied by the members of Norma's cult in the third season, to the point [[spoiler:that she attempts suicide]], and in Season 4, [[spoiler: her girlfriend is killed during a protest.]] The fact that she won't stop talking until you sit on her face probably would stop most people from giving her a hug, though.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Soso was often disliked in season 2 due to her naïveté and MotorMouth, which were often perceived as annoying. After we got a bit of backstory and a lot of CharacterDevelopment in season 3, she has gained many more fans.

* SeasonalRot: While there's still some debate about whether Season 5 is outright ''bad'', it has the lowest Metacritic score of any of the show's seasons by quite some distance, is widely considered the show's weakest season by fans (with Season 3 being the only one even coming close in that regard before it was aired), and even creator Jenji Kohan publicly apologised for the drop in quality.
** Season 6 is considered only marginally better than 5 Metacritic score-wise, with Season 7 (the final season) largely considered a return to form.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: After spending the latter half of the first season building Pensatucky up as an antagonist to Piper, and ending with [[spoiler: Piper mercilessly beating her, there is absolutely no hostile interaction between them in the second season, with their plots being completely separate]].

* SeasonalRot: While there's still some debate about whether Season 5 is outright ''bad'', it has the lowest Metacritic score of any of the show's seasons by quite some distance, is widely considered the show's weakest season by fans (with Season 3 being the only one even coming close in that regard), and even creator Jenji Kohan publicly apologised for the drop in quality.

** New character “Badison” in season six, for being incredibly obnoxious and unlikeable- and for her actress putting on what many fans consider to be [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent an absolutely abysmal]] Bostonian accent.

* VanillaProtagonist: Piper, as her background story is significantly less interesting than those of many of the other inmates. In Season 2, she became more and more OutOfFocus as the season's main ongoing plot arcs shifted to the supporting characters (Red and Vee's rivalry, Daya's pregnancy, Soso's hunger strike and depression, etc). In Season 3 she receives more focus again, but she is noticeably less vanilla at the time.

* FandomBerserkButton: Some fans of the show get upset if you refer to Suzanne by her in-story nickname of "Crazy Eyes" because it’s ableist. The creators seem to have taken notice, as since the start of Season 4, she has never once been called by that name.

* A more minor example, but a cute scene in Season 2 with Taystee pinning Poussey to a bunk and tickling her ends with Poussey crying out "I can't breathe!" [[spoiler: This becomes a cringe-worthy line upon rewatching and knowing that being pinned down and not being able to breathe is how Poussey dies.]]
*** Another minor example. In the Season 2 Finale, Cindy and Janae come into the library to talk to Taystee and Poussey. Poussey grabs a book and uses it as a shield. Cindy knocks it out of her hand and Taystee picks it up. As Taystee is holding it, you can read the title: "Fighting for Air".

* {{Anvilicious}}:
** The "The prison system is broken and needs fixing, and convicts and ex-cons alike aren't treated fairly" message was obvious the first dozen times. By the time Alex gets a close-up when stating that "nobody cares about an ex-con," it's almost a redundant message.
*** And then when the prison gets privatised, they ramp up the exact same message just with "privatised for-profit prisons are broken."

** Early in Season 5 we get DayInTheLimeLight episode for Janae that flashes back to her middle school years when she visited a prestigious, predominantly white academy. The moral of the flashback seems to be Janae's resentment towards white students getting better educational conditions than black or Hispanic students which is a fine point but what really oversells it is the moment when young Janae sees an all white production of Theatre/DreamGirls. Out of everyone in that entire school, did really ''no one'' find it awkward that they were whitewashing a traditionally African American cast and music group? Was Dream Girls the only play the school could think of? It also appears to show that Janae uses it as an excuse to just stop giving a shit, leading to her life of crime.

** Sofia, to a certain extent. While she's one of the most nuanced transgender characters that you're likely to see in contemporary pop culture, and definitely one of the most good-natured prisoners at Litchfield, some of the fans seem to forget that her means of seeking gender reassignment therapy aren't exactly presented in a 100% sympathetic light. She's in Litchfield because she resorted to stealing credit cards to pay for hormones, which left her wife to raise their child alone after she was busted and imprisoned.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The BolivianArmyEnding for [[spoiler:the ten women in Frieda's bunker]] in season 5. While the show has been known to occassionally kill or send off a major character, [[spoiler:eight of the mentioned ten - Piper, Alex, Red, Nicky, Suzanne, Taystee, Cindy and Gloria - are the most core characters of the show, so not many viewers believe that they might not survive this situation]].
** [[spoiler: In fact, all ten women return as main characters in Season 6; it's most of the women outside the pool who get PutOnABus between seasons, and the only inmate to die is Kukudio.]]