Orange Is The New Black

Orange Is The New Black

Genre:	Dramedy
Running Time:	51 - 93 minutes
Country:	United States
Release Date:	July 11, 2013
Network(s):	Netflix
Created by:	Jenji Kohan
Distributed by:	Lionsgate Televison Netflix
Starring:	Taylor Schilling Laura Prepon Michael Harney Michelle Hurst Kate Mulgrew Jason Biggs Uzo Aduba Danielle Brooks Natasha Lyonne Taryn Manning Selenis Leyva Adrienne C. Moore Dascha Polanco Nick Sandow Yael Stone Samira Wiley Jackie Cruz Lea DeLaria Elizabeth Rodriguez Jessica Pimentel Laura Gómez Matt Peters Dale Soules Alysia Reiner
Seasons:	7
Episodes:	91

Orange Is The New Black (sometimes abbreviated to OITNB) is an American comedy-drama web television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir called "Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, " about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison.

Plot

Piper Chapman is a public relations executive with a career and fiance when her past suddenly catches up to her. In her mid-30s, she is sentenced to spend time in a minimum-security women's prison in Connecticut for her association with a drug runner ten years earlier. Forced to trade power suits for prison orange, Chapman makes her way through the corrections system. She adjusts to life behind bars, making friends with the many eccentric, unusual, and unexpected people she meets.

Why It Rocks

The show gives a detailed look at women in prison, and how they're treated depending on their race or sexuality.
- It also shows that prisoners are still human, no matter how bad they are.
- The show also gives great transgender representation too with Sophia's character and the episode "Lesbian Request Denied."
The show also throws in a lot of black comedy throughout the episodes and balances it out with moving moments.
Every single actor or actress has great performances, especially Taylor Schilling as Piper.
- Laverne Cox's performance as transgender prisoner Sophia Burset is great too.
All the characters develop throughout the show, and they start becoming good friends with Piper, such as Piper and Crazy Eyes.
- The flashback structure the show uses also helps the characters develop too by giving them a bit of a backstory.
Tasha is possibly the best character in the show due to her intelligence and circumstances she finds herself in.
The theme song, "You've Got Time," is catchy as hell.
The ending of the first episode is pure comedy gold.
The final season is absolutely moving because of its emotional weight.

Bad Qualities

Larry, Piper's fianceé, is considered to be the worst part of the show.
Season 5 is pretty awful, and while Season 6 is better, it still isn't really that great.
While Season 7 is, for the most part, a big improvement on the two previous seasons, its constant attacks on the immigration policies of President Donald Trump can get pretty repetitive (though they at least hold off on mentioning Trump by name).

Reception

Orange Is The New Black has become Netflix's most-watched original series and was widely acclaimed throughout its run. It has been praised for humanizing prisoners and for its depiction of race, sexuality, gender and body types.