When summer begins, there’s only room for two feelings: relief that the school year is over and excitement over a new season of Orange is the New Black (OITNB) dropping on Netflix. Surely by now, you’re done binge-watching season four of your favorite series (since none of us know how to pace ourselves), so here are the stages of experiencing this Netflix favorite if you’re as obsessed with the inmates of Litchfield as I am.
Counting down the days until the summer premiere
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Watching the first teaser/trailer
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When you get the notification from Netflix that the season has finally dropped
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Saying goodbye to your social life and all responsibilities for the next 24 hours
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Seeing and reuniting with all your favorite characters
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Seeing Piper
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When the cute things happen
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When your favorite characters are finally happy (well… as happy as prisoners can be)
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When Netflix ruins that happiness and the worst thing in the history of TV happens
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Pausing your marathon so you can cry in the dark for a few hours
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Continuing on even though you’re scared there’ll be more heartbreak
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Making an attempt to eat away your feelings
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Finishing the season and feeling very incomplete
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Feeling like this show is personally out to get you
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Realizing you blew through it in a day… like you always do
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And that it won’t return for another year
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Telling your feelings to shut up and stop
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