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

Missed opportunity to throw her into the general population imo.

(That's probably not realistic...they'd send her somewhere else, surely)

she was facing prison and got to slink away w/ a recommendation

I've probably been following the Donald T. Sterling saga too closely, keep expecting people in charge to put up a fight.

fucking great ending

waiting for Caputo's 'Weekend at Bernie's' handling of the situation w/ the warden to begin season 3

Just watched the first ep of season 1 and thought it was fucking terrible. JFC.

cool

well the first episode of popular dramas is always the best one so you might want to stop now

Run nuns! Ruuun! hahahaa

Dayanara/Bennett pregnancy subplot is the worst part of this show. They're both so fucking stupid! Just the dumb blank looks on both of their faces all the time--ugh.

lol yes

"Run nuns!" otm

Brook Soso on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/28o7ec/i_am_kimiko_glenn_actress_from_orange_is_the_new/

all her answers are long and rambling like soso's! lol

Hahah I know right???

More of those ex-con reviews from Washington CityPaper:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2014/06/16/the-blonde-bitch-wins-again-an-ex-con-reviews-orange-is-the-new-black-part-iii/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2014/06/19/we-aint-running-after-none-of-you-motherfuckers-an-ex-con-reviews-orange-is-the-new-black-part-iv/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2014/06/25/dildo-making-and-smuggling-cigarettes-an-ex-con-reviews-orange-is-the-new-black-part-v/

Maybe someone already said this, but the child actor that played young Crazy Eyes was soooo good; she precisely captured Crazy Eyes' characteristic physical mannerisms and facial expressions

Those ex-con reviews are pretty enlightening, but some of it's a little "it wasn't like that in my prison so it's bullshit." it may well be bullshit but like, not everything that goes on in tv shows about college went on at my college (that i saw), doesn't mean it doesn't happen elsewhere.

i mean her review of the sex contest on the show is

Ok, so, let’s say for the sake of television entertainment value that all the guards suddenly fell into a coma and all the cameras stopped working, and that this contest actually happened.

while the woman olive is based on said

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

“Usually what you would do was have sex in your jail rooms,” she explains. “You’d have sex anywhere you could: the tennis court, the outdoor squash court, or the rake pile. Anyplace! When the guards aren’t around all bets are off. Everyone goes to it!”

WCP should find a rich wanna-be writer who could tell us if the Jason Biggs character is true to life

Finally finished this, thought this season was so much worse than the first. Fuck Piper, I could not give a shit less about her, her arc, or what happens to her. Splitting up the first two episodes into one centering on her and one completely without her just emphasized how much I do not want this show to be about her. I think Crazy Eyes redeemed it a little bit in the last two eps, but I spent most of the season disgusted at how cartoonish they'd made her character.

I think the end shot of the season makes explicit my problems with the show. I thought ending it right as Rosa is smiling after running down Vee would have been a pretty perfect shot to end the season but, no, they had to get all hand-holdy and point out the DOUSEE-ness of "look, this is just like when Rosa was young and getting her adrenaline from running from the cops". Like, JFC, we got it already.

i loved the season overall but definitely wish they'd either cut rosa's frosted mini wheats moment or gave one to everybody in an OTT wire-style montage (the track star chatting with the airport employee, punk poussey, the nun with red in a track suit, etc) climaxing with the old olive coming back into the prison and seeing old piper

like, if you're gonna go there GO THERE

and yeah uzo aduba is so good but for a while they basically turned suzanne into that picked-on-kid-turned-bully in The Wave, could have used one scene with her adoptive parents (who iirc were portrayed as regular visitors in the first season) to see how her relationship with Vee was affecting things on that front

not looking forward to nichols heroin arc next season

mary steenburgen's coming on next season as pornstache's mom, which makes me worry that we got a custody battle subplot coming

i love steenburgen though, and hope the ensemble can continue to rise above stock story aspects

aw i teared up at the final scene

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http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hqg3PMWrJ78/0.jpg

THE ANIMAL

THE ANIMAL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W4MYJt8c4w

i finished this earlier today and now i miss it, marathon sessions are hard on ya. i liked season 2 quite a bit more than 1, that joint really benefited from the kind of toxic influence that vee provided. and while her demise was a biiit unlikely i suppose she had some kind of catholic-voodoo curse on her so that explains everything.

also isn't it THE ANIMALS THE ANIMALS

arrgh, I've been watching this for the past week or so and now I have that goddamn song stuck in my head

for season 3 they should replace it with one of sideboob's tracks

Just started season 2, and while there are some standouts, esp. the flashbacks, I'm getting a b-list "M*A*S*H" vibe from a lot of the episodes.

Dunno if this has been posted yet, and it's about male prisons, but still:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-gentlemans-guide-to-sex-in-prison-1634995425

Hello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njy0dFFlpAc

it begins. what a perfect weekend for me to be too broke to go out!

the end of last season felt kinda wish-fulfillment/fan-servicey, so in other words more like jenji kohan's previous, risible show, but i like (most of) these characters too much to not be interested in the show. also, mary steenburgen!!

I'm going to attempt to just watch one episode of this per week (after beginning with a twofer) this year. Will I fail? Probably, but it's a thing I'm trying. Hopefully I'll see this thread again in 12 weeks.

Never watched this show, but I've just found out my friend Nick appears in the sexual harassment video* in ep 7 this season.

*Which is a real corporate video he acted in around six years ago.

And of course his wife went on youtube, found the original video, and shared it on FB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L9xyFKD8HE&feature=youtu.be&t=480

He's the impressively coiffed uncomfortable dude in the white shirt in the preview frame.

Wait, Steenburgen is in this season? She was just in all last season of "Justified." There should be a statute of limitations between appearances as a high profile season-long guest star.

Huh, just out of curiosity I looked her up to figure out why she was famous, because to the best of my memory she never anchored a major/hit movie or TV show. I still don't know, but I was surprised to learn she won an Oscar 35 years ago for "Melvin and Howard!" The world is full of surprises.

timehump chronicles

admiral rodcocker for prez

so this show has always been somewhat silly but god this season it got really really silly

I had the suspicion that Chang's backstory would be good, and it really was.

This fruit. Is defective.

steenburgen was in some woody allen films and has been a reliable character/side player for years; plus lengthy high profile Ted Danson liberal power couple for a long time (although I think they divorced), were in Curb your Enthusiasm a fair bit for a while. I used to have a mad crush on her.

She used to be married to Malcolm McDowell back in the 80s.

http://images.bwwstatic.com/upload10/633048/tn-500_steenburgen_mcdowell_wm1.jpg