Orange Is the New Black will make you angry. It will make you laugh. It will break your heart. And by the time you finish the final season, staring at a chain-link fence as the camera pulls away, you will miss these women like they were your own cellmates.
In the golden age of "prestige TV," shows often compete to be the darkest, the most complex, or the most cinematic. But in 2013, Netflix released a show that seemed, on its surface, deceptively simple: a privileged blonde woman goes to a minimum-security federal prison for a decade-old drug smuggling crime. That show, Orange Is the New Black (OITNB), quickly revealed itself to be not just a prison dramedy, but a sprawling, kaleidoscopic epic about systemic injustice, the nature of friendship, and the indomitable, messy will to survive. nonton film orange is the new black
(Docked one point for the panty-selling season and a few meandering plotlines, but otherwise essential viewing). Orange Is the New Black will make you angry
A Long-Form Review
You liked Ozark ’s tension, Shameless ’s messy family dynamics, or The Wire ’s systemic critique. Watch it if you want to laugh at a guard getting a chicken bone thrown at his head, and then cry five minutes later at a woman having her child taken away over a phone call. And by the time you finish the final
Orange Is the New Black is not just a "women’s prison show." It is a show about America. It is about how we treat the poor, the sick, the addicted, and the forgotten. It argues, passionately and loudly, that every single person has a story, and that no one is defined solely by their worst mistake.