A thread for Netflix's women-in-prison dramedy ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

^ great post

He seems so much SHORTER in OITNB than in The Wire.

he lost height for the role

lol

n/a otm -- he has the same exact face only with a mustache on it!!

Also, fun fact: he is Liev Schreiber's half-brother.

just finished watching this. The 'scared straight' ep was the BEST. I too did not realise that was Nicky Sobotka!

I know, right? Now that I see it is is sooooooo obvious, but I was just so creeped out by that character that I didn't make a connection!

so jodie foster directed an episode of this?

also taryn manning is fucking amazing in this show, as everyone else already said

it took me forever to place piper's mom - she's the mom from strangers with candy

^^^yes!!! Thank you. I could have just imdb'd her I suppose.

This is exceptional, three episodes left for me!

Natasha Lyonne's character is my favorite out of the core cast; love the Taystee/Poussey interaction, they should have a sketch comedy show, a staple of which would be White Women Talking To Each Other.

So psyched for more of this!

The animal the animal

lmao @ the animal the animal

is this show good? this show seems good!

judging based on scattered youtube clips only.

It's great!

excited for the new season. was the laura prepon returning / not-returning thing ever resolved?

shouldn't be watching any of this. should be engaged in religious thought, with the pc off. but we're all beyond tired. and this show seems good! and prison seems like a scary place.

http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/orange-is-the-new-black-real-alex

this article is interesting. i was trying to figure out if my interest in the story was more based on (a) prison life, and how someone like piper survives in prison or (b) the sexy, sweet, tortured relationship between two very attractive female characters. still not sure.

On the whole, Wolters says that the true story would be “so wretched and stinky, it would quite possibly result in a collapsed universe. So I guess it’s a good thing Piper and Jenji stick with the fun little tidbits.”

and yet she's working on her own memoirs! i'm glad she is; i'm morbidly fascinated with the "real story" of prison life. what i know comes from msnbc's lockup, which looks very different than what's on orange is the new black.

whatever the reason, this show really got under my skin. considering signing-up for netflix just to watch new episodes when they air.

It'll be released all at once.

season 2 trailer is finally here and "it looks amazing"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99SkdcB2UU

Early on, I half-expected that prison-Vause would end up being revealed as Piper's hallucination, i.e. I've watched too much sci-fi.

trailer does a good job of (a) making piper seem totally different (in season one, she was sweet and frightened; in season two, she's hardened and vicious, and -- amazingly, i think -- you can see the change on her face and in her demeanor); and (b) shifting the emphasis away from piper (and alex) to the other characters.

i'm still drawn to the piper/alex story, but this trailer seriously plays with my expectations. the season one story set up alex as the sexy, in-control seductress, and piper as the almost cooing girlfriend. the trailer for season two ... well, it all seems different. besides, i read rumors that alex won't be in season two very much, anyway. this new trailer is totally compelling, but i wonder if people aren't going to like the "new piper" very much.

I didn't like the old Piper very much, so I'm looking forward to this.

i read rumors that alex won't be in season two very much, anyway.

Originally, she wasn't going to be in it all until they sweet-talked Laura Prepon back for a small amount of time.

not that i care that much, either way, but i was trying to figure out why i liked the old piper. maybe i see people i know in her "sweet, innocent" character, and empathized with her being thrown into terrible circumstances. maybe i thought she was hot, and liked the love story with her and the alex character. i saw a tweet today, from the atlantic, that kind of made me feel guilty; it implied that piper's central-role in the show was because u.s. audiences are assumed to "need a white, pretty, privileged face to sell a story that's really about everyone else."

Originally, she wasn't going to be in it all until they sweet-talked Laura Prepon back for a small amount of time.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, April 17, 2014

glad they did. i like her character a lot.

I couldn't figure it out. What's on Laura Prepon's plate that is SO MUCH BETTER than one of the best dramas in production at the present time?

Tom Cruise

Like I said.

I hear he's good with motorcycles

amid listless sleep, i had dreams about this new trailer. mostly dreams like, "what's worse -- general population or solitary confinement"?

if there is a season three of orange is the new black, laura prepon will be back on the show, full-time.

I wish I had a "Regina Spektor" button on my Roku that would allow me ffwd just past the opening sequence. Because that song...guh.

there have been some youtube montages of the show, featuring either that song or similar songs, which have been effective (though, without the context of a compelling show to frame it, these songs wouldn't interest me at all).

by the way, there's an earlier, uk version of the trailer for season 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqzP0O6PSDk

gives you another glimpse of the radically changed, razor-tough, maybe borderline-psycho piper. i'm starting to like this lady.

Btw Johnny, there's something interesting I wanted to tell you

Come closer

THE ANIMAL THE ANIMAL

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there's so much to this series that's totally beyond me. i need netflix, pronto.

You realize pretty quickly that $7.99/mo is just about the right price for Netflix streaming, because some months you'll binge like a freak and others you'll barely use it. If it were any more expensive, those "barely use it" months would feel like a huge waste.

yeah you'd just unsubscribe and wait until

YOU'VE GOT TIIIIME

jf i've found that they hold on the title card w/ the blue sky background and title in orange the perfect amount of time to stop ffwding

Yeah, I got pretty good at that towards the end of S1.

Btw Johnny, there's something interesting I wanted to tell you

Come closer

THE ANIMAL THE ANIMAL

― hundreds-swarm-dinkytown (Jon Lewis), Friday, April 18, 2014 4:35 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

lololol

ever since i saw the first "the animal the animal" i've been looking forward to hearing the song again
i don't really like it but it's totally 100% insidious

DAMN YOU TOM CRUISE

stevie ‏@ekstaseequeen 1h -- i wanna rob a bank and i don't care if i would get caught cause like orange is the new black makes prison look fun once you get use to it

smart career planning.

Actually I think this is one shortcoming of the series, in that the middle of the season characterizes Piper's experience as a kind of summer camp where the worst thing that she has to contend with is boredom -- and when she went into her soliloquy to the wheelchair girl about prison forcing you to confront/question your essential self, I didn't get a sense of that existential crisis because she was also having seven 0rgasms sexy funtimes at the same time. (Of course, the stuff with Pennsyltucky gets to that crisis in an animal, an animal way.) My expectations also played a part: every time they flashed back to Piper's pre-lockup life, I was anxious for them to get to the part where she assimilates with her new prison family and she finds a new appreciation of what-have-you.

again, i've only seen bits-and-pieces (and what i think is one whole episode) on youtube, but to the extent they made prison seem like a cakewalk, i think that's changing in season two, if the trailer's a good indicator. also, the show got me interested in prison-related issues, so i've been reading a few articles examining how true-to-life OITNB is, regarding prison life. and the answer seems to be: it got a lot right!, and prison is often less violent, and more just boring and numbing, than you might think (though the threat of horrible violence is always around).

if you're really interested in prison conditions (and not just women's prison conditions) there are two frontline docs airing this month about the corrections system in the USA
i would recommend watching those -- frontline never disappoints