'Orange Is The New Black' Thread on Netfleezy

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Netflix is re-writing the game with these original series (this and House of Cards) and bringing back AD.

Props to them.

 

[HHR]

I finally jumped in to this show......I waited too long. This shyt is fukking GREATNESS.



That's where I'm at

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

I binge watched the entire first season. Pretty good show.

Lorna and Maritza

 

[Ralph Wiggum]

I binge watched the entire first season. Pretty good show.

Lorna and Maritza

Vote Maritza if you want pizza

 

[verbalkint]

Daya's definitely my guilty pleasure of the moment.

Watch her drop 15-20 and come back on status.

 

[DaRealness]

Finished watching. I'm probably the only one who doesn't feel sorry for the protagonist. She's fukking scandalous.

 

[daemonova]

• MATTTHEW GILBERT Matthew Gilbert can be reached at gilbert@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter@MatthewGilbert.

‘ORANGE’ ADDICTS UNITE

I’ve basically heard one major complaint over and over again about “Orange Is the New Black.” It’s usually delivered with a lot of urgency and a tinge of whininess, and it goes something like this: “I consumed all 13 episodes, and now I have nothing. Nothing [sob].”

I understand, my friends, I understand. I want more episodes, too. The new Netflix prison series is so terrific, so crowded with remarkable characters and buoyant performances, so original in its themes, that I couldn’t stop myself from bingeing, and now it’s all over.

It’s the Potato Chip Effect: You try one, and when you look up, the whole bag is gone. Like everyone who has mainlined “Orange Is the New Black,” like every reader who has written to grieve the year it will take before Netflix drops the second season, like the optimistic Twitter pal who sent out a photo of a filming permit for season 2 that was posted on a New York City street, I am bereft.

This is the down side of bingeing, which is encouraged by Netflix’s episode-dump approach to series release. When the show is as thoroughly engaging as “Orange,” the binge experience is definitely a high, a long rush of TV-style euphoria. But afterward you are left flat, with a big fat void and, if you still have brain cells, a few fond memories. Only days ago, the show was your new viewing lifeblood; now you’re already referring to it in the past tense, stricken with longing. Cut to Patty Duke crying, “I want a doll, I want a doll,” in “Valley of the Dolls.”

I truly wanted to stretch out the pleasure, savor each hour. But when a show is as addictive as “Orange,” it’s hard not to binge, even while your inner sober coach may be telling you to slow down. The story line, based on the memoir by Piper Kerman, could have been so pat: Privileged yuppie goes to jail, learns hard lessons about reality and her sheltered life. Instead, show creator Jenji Kohan gives us the population of a low-security women’s prison in all their mad, fierce, fickle glory. The characters aren’t just there as racially diverse cautionary tales for the lily white Piper. They aren’t reduced into symbols of bad choices. Ultimately, they are each given heart, soul, and wonderfully unexpected facets, like Uzo Aduba’s “Crazy Eyes,” who seems deluded and dangerous but, we discover, is a sweetly theatrical kook from a surprising background.

And how refreshing: They are almost all women. We’ve reached the point in TV drama where audiences are eager to take on the challenges of watching complex antiheroes. But for the most part, with Edie Falco on “Nurse Jackie” as the prime exception, we still haven’t embraced a significant number of female antiheroines. “Orange” flies in the face of that pattern, not just with the irresponsible and needy Piper but with most of her prison mates. Piper’s former lover, Alex, for example, is a great morally gray character (beautifully played by Laura Prepon). By the time we’ve seen her history, her choices make sense, even if they weren’t particularly smart or kind.

The men in Litchfield Prison are limited. Down the line, from the counselors to the guard known primarily as “Pornstache,” they are sexually twisted or clueless. They are like the parents in so many teen movies and TV shows— one-dimensional, there mostly as a backdrop for the main characters. But the women, many of whose back stories we follow, offer an embarrassment of riches. I can still hear the hoarse voice of Taryn Manning’s Tiffany, the prisoner who thinks she is God’s messenger. Such a terrifying and yet funny character. “She’s a lesbian,” Tiffany says at one point. “They lesbianing together.” I still smile at the dry humor of Natasha Lyonne’s Nicky, a recovering addict who always has a line at the ready. When Piper asks her why she’s drilling a hole in the wall, she says, “It’s an art piece representing the futility of blue collar labor in a technological age— and vaginas.” Also in the house: a nun, a transgendered former fireman, and a matriarchal Russian cook.

Even Piper, played with just the right balance of Brooklyn-style preciousness and willpower by Taylor Schilling, ultimately becomes fascinating. She doesn’t fit into a conventional class of sexual orientation, given her relationships with Larry (Jason Biggs) and Alex, and the “Orange” writers don’t strain to label her. They let her unfold to us, and to herself, within the walls of Litchfield. Like many of the best characters on the show, and on TV in general, Piper is not easily categorized. In that way, “Orange” can be an unusually expansive series.


So enjoy it. But heed this warning: The TV Surgeon General has determined that fast ingestion of “Orange” episodes may lead to fatigue, emptiness, and withdrawal. Proceed at your own risk.

 

[Golayitdown]

Just finished. Pousay and Tastee has me


Between this and Orphan Black I'm gonna be till next year

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Netflix needs to give some sort of warning

I turn this show on in the front of the youngin and the first scene is a lesbo half frontal shower joint

I'm like woah... Hold up...

Pause..

stop

Gotta watch this later apparently

Smh

MANE......u got some fukked up parenting skills........u see a b1tch in orange prison garb on Netflix which is uncensored.....and u didn't STOP TO THINK THIS SHYT MIGHT NOT BE SUITABLE FOR KIDS???!???!?!?

I bet your in laws thinking your fukking idiot

 

[Monoblock]

fukk Spoiler tags if you havent finished this shyt by now thats on you and you shouldnt be in this thread.
23 Surprising Facts About “Orange Is The New Black”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/surprising-facts-about-orange-is-the-new-black

3. Laverne Cox’s (Sophia) real-life twin brother played her pre-transition in the flashback sequence in Episode 3…

6. This is Crazy Eyes in real life (actress Uzo Aduba).

This chick is awesome on the show.

11. There is an American Pie reference in the first episode of the series.

 

[IronFist]

seen an episode of this the other day. pretty decent show

 

[Absolut da poet ®]

MANE......u got some fukked up parenting skills........u see a b1tch in orange prison garb on Netflix which is uncensored.....and u didn't STOP TO THINK THIS SHYT MIGHT NOT BE SUITABLE FOR KIDS???!???!?!?

I bet your in laws thinking your fukking idiot

I guess.

But i didn't notice the jail suits. Also

Their opinions + yours= 0 fukks given.


Enjoy the show.

 

[jackswstd]

Just watched 3 episodes of this and I'm liking the show. I'll come back when I'm done.

 

[dabestkeptsecret]

fukk Spoiler tags if you havent finished this shyt by now thats on you and you shouldnt be in this thread.
23 Surprising Facts About “Orange Is The New Black”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/surprising-facts-about-orange-is-the-new-black


11. There is an American Pie reference in the first episode of the series.

i guess this show is trying to get on arrested development's level. Damn had no idea that chef was on star trek either. Yall gotta click the link to see that funny ass gif of the CO

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Alex is one bad a$$ carpet munching drug smuggling byatch!!

and RED in dat kitchen is

and the Puerto rican byatch that let the C.O's hit is thicker than a swamp possum