And at the beginning, we see Litchfield penitentiary and its inmates through Piper’s eyes. Orange begins by focusing on its fictionalized Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) as she kicks off her sentence. ![]() But that was only a warm-up act compared to what Kohan would do in adapting Piper Kerman’s 2010 memoir about being a privileged white woman doing time in a federal prison for a long-forgotten drug offense.Ĭhasteness, Soda Pop, and Show Tunes: The Lost Story of the Young Americans and the Choircore Movement She literally burned down the show’s original suburban setting after three seasons, and metaphorically blew up the show in each remaining year. On Showtime’s Weeds, Orange creator Jenji Kohan had already demonstrated a propensity for throwing out the relatively new rules of post- Sopranos TV. As the women’s prison drama enters its seventh and final season this week, it feels right to celebrate it as the first series explicitly designed for the streaming era, and still one of the best at taking advantage of the freedoms offered by this brave new programming world. But where Cards was exactly the kind of antihero drama that had been made for years on cable TV (Netflix in fact won a bidding war with HBO for it), Orange felt like something new in almost every way. ![]() ![]() Orange Is the New Black was technically the second of Netflix’s original series to debut, arriving five months after House of Cards in 2013.
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