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

no, i wasn't kidding. i just didn't understand how bad a practice it is compared to prison-life generally.

A rule of thumb that I think applies and that I just made up is that if there is an opportunity for prison officials to behave in a reasonable, humane manner, they usually won't.

My very limited anecdotal women's-prison knowledge comes from some interviews I did with a few young women serving life w/o parole sentences for their roles in a particularly horrible carjack-murder case. They had been locked up for a few years at the point I talked to them, and they didn't have any major complaints with prison per se. One of them told me she was the happiest she had ever been in her life -- since being convicted, she had come out as gay and now had a girlfriend who was also her cellmate, and was working in the prison hair salon. Granted, "happiest she'd ever been" was a low bar for her -- she'd grown up basically ignored by her mother and raped by her step-father (who went to prison himself on that charge), and she was only about 18 when she was arrested. Granted also, she was two years into a life sentence, and I don't think she really grasped or believed that she was never getting out. Still, nothing I heard from them makes OITNB seem all that far-fetched.

Diesel therapy is mentioned in the OITNB book. transferring to a new location sounds rly awful. and yeah, prison differs greatly depending on where it is and why people are there acc to OITNB book.

my apologies. i didn't get it before, but i do now the article notes that, "(o)n the surface it sounds benign. What could be the problem with making a prisoner ride in a bus for hours at a time?" but find out, by reading the excerpt. it's graphic and terrible.

cool

opening scene from season two.

Ooh, S3 already a go! http://www.imdb.com/news/ni57154350/

laura prepon, givin' away storylines ("#oitnb#alexvause#backtothebighouse").

OITNB making me strongly consider subscribing to netflix streaming service.

Do it already!

You'd find out why Piper has gone all BA Baracus for season 2, since the season 1 finale shows you why.

i know why, but i want to see the whole story! even the split-second of that scene didn't make piper seem tough.

over on the netflix recommendation thread, scott seward posted a youtube clip of a full episode (or more!) of another netflix in-prison original program, called jailbait. it looked even more grim and grittier; i got through about 20 minutes of it before i felt claustrophobic from the whole "you're trapped in prison for a long time" vibe.

(maybe piper did seem tough in that scene, but i didn't see all of it. gotta get netflix)

he really said this?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmwkwHoCYAAxy75.jpg

if so, lol.

daniel esq the amount of enthusiastic and analytical posting you've done on a thread dedicated to a show you've never actually watched is one of the weirdest things i've ever seen on ilx

wether it's a bizzaro trolling effort or not, i'm into it

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it's performance-art, really.

keep it up!

One of my friends has been running a tumblr posting OITNB stills with Madonna lyrics on top of them. Orange Is the New True Blue

S2 released tomorrow, right?

YES!!

the animal the animal

so tempted to play hooky from work

So I guess you ended up getting Netflix and watching S1?

oh nm, that was Daniel, Esq 2

Nee-anderthal, nee-anderthal, trapped trapped trapped till the cave is full.

lol

fingers crossed for new opening credit music

^ this

they'll do it like the wire and it will be amanda palmer's version of the same song

This site sez season 2 is released in 4 hours... that can't be right? Are they going by GMT?

I mean, is it getting released at 12:00AM GMT?

if that is true, my understudy is going on tonight. I mean I don't have one but y'know they'll figure something out. What is important is that I know what happens before everybody else.

That's probably just someone in GMT counting down until June 6 arrives.

yeah there's a countdown on netflix, it's in approximately 11 hours. whether they have it set up different times by time zone i don't know but i could totally see them making it midnight west coast time, so after last call here.

Ah thanks.

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just watched first ep. oh piper.

nnnhhgghh I have to wait for GOT and 24 to finish before I switch from Sky to Netflix and watch this + House of Cards.

very lukewarm review from the nyt.

idk that seemed a little more positive than 'lukewarm' to me

Variety also more or less called it a comedown.

interesting to me that much of the nyt's criticism is that the show presents a sanitized/suitable for tv-face on the prison experience, when many people -- here and in articles assessing the show -- say it's fairly accurate (for at least some prisons).

Tasty is still my fave

three episodes in. i know it's cliche to diss on piper, but episode 2 without her was a straight-up delight. they kinda lampshaded her role in the show when natasha lyonne made that crack about her thinking she was the star of everyone's movie, but ughhh i just find her so aggressively boring.

loved the little girls they got to play young taystee and young suzanne, and the casting of the little girls at the slumber party with suzanne blew my mind: they were like delicate, bitchy songbirds, so tiny and high-pitched.

Just finished episode 2. I don't think I have it in me to binge for 13 hours this weekend, but I'll probably be done by mid-week. Agree that the little girl who was cast for young Taystee was an amazing choice.

Anybody else encountering missing captions on the fifth episode? I've read that Netflix's recent app update doesn't play nice with Roku as far as captions are concerned, but there is way too much Spanish and Russian in this one for me to keep up with what's going on.

most of the way thru season one, and i hate the american-pie actor's character more than i hate the pennsatucky character.

You'll hate them fairly equally by the time you reach the end.