Taylor Schilling (Atlas Shrugged) plays Piper the happy, up and coming yuppie who is about to be married to a nice Jewish Boy (Jason Biggs). But, out of nowhere she is charged with mule-ing $50K in drug money for her then lesbian lover Laura Prepon (That 70's Show redhead)ten years past. (Limitations due to run out at 12 years).
Piper must now say goodbye to all her friends and join the party at an upstate New York womens' detention center. This is what the fun is all about. Shiny, yuppie Piper getting into the system and getting ground down to reality all in a 15 month sentence. The 13 Netflix episodes are filled with humor, drama, and everything in between. It is not for the socially polite unless no one else is around. Lesbianism seems to be the order of the day--you either participate or fight it.
Orange use a veritable wealth of acting talent never seen nor barely recognized before. The cast is astounding and Kate Mulgrew (shocking in her old age) is one of the king pins of each episode. Each prime inmate has her backstory shown to illuminate how they got there and what's on their mind.
The pic at the top is Crazy Eyes expressing her love for Pipes who just can't seem to escape her. Uzo Aduba nails crazy like never before, scary.
Once you get past three episodes you feel compelled to keep watching this rag-tag collection or blacks, browns, rednecks, Ruskie, and Asian until it ends. Fortunately for me, NF has ordered season two.
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Topic - 'Orange Is The New Black' - - Do Whaaaa, NO Pam Greer! - Billy Wonka 16:21:30 07/19/13 (7)
- RE: 'Orange Is The New Black' - - Do Whaaaa, NO Pam Greer! - Peter Breuninger 07:55:56 07/31/13 (1)
- I thought the same thing until the end of the first episode it gets a bit better but still not great - PhilJ 07:53:31 08/03/13 (0)
- I wonder what happened to the other post? So far I have watched half the first episode and am bored - PhilJ 13:58:32 07/21/13 (3)
- thanks barryb. fwiw the first episode ended on a high note so I look forward to more soon - PhilJ 20:05:25 07/22/13 (0)
- I think it was deleted because it had political commentary - barryb 10:14:54 07/22/13 (1)
- Barry, Barry, Barry, Barry, You and your Conspiracy Theories... - oldmkvi 06:53:38 07/24/13 (0)
- +1 - Joe Appierto 02:38:43 07/20/13 (0)