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In portraying the daily grind of those stuck in the criminal justice system-with its violence, sexual harassment, prejudice, and sheer inefficiency- OITNB treats each character with dignity. Why You Should Binge: You won't see another show like this on TV, at least not with this talented and diverse of a cast. Here, she tries the riskiest move so far, but with the inmates splitting along racial lines (white, black, and Latina), Vee starts to realize she does not have as much clout with these women as she used to. We’re Polite" All season long, Vee’s been using Suzanne’s fear of being an outcast as a way to manipulate her, and, at times, it got violent. It’s safe to say that plotlines directly related to Piper not that interesting, and those that focus on her family and friends even less so.
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Season 1: Episode 5, "The Chickening" Much of this episode revolves around a chicken running loose on prison grounds: Is it real? Who will catch it? Who will cook it? Piper neglects to reach out to contacts for her soap company, the business that her pregnant best friend is trying to handle in her absence. That said, here’s one you could skip, if you’re into that sort of thing. Seasons/Episodes You Can Skip: Because there are so many characters, there’s a lot to digest in each episode. Season 2 also brings the villainous and manipulative Vee Parker (Lorraine Toussaint), who turns the prison dynamics upside down upon arrival. When we first meet Suzanne/Crazy Eyes (played with zeal by Uzo Aduba), she’s an unpredictable inmate who is infatuated with Piper, but as the show progresses, we see Suzanne as the loveable young girl who's been rejected by people like Piper her whole life. Oh, and everyone’s having sex in the chapel.īest Character to Follow: It would be easy to say Piper, but she quickly turns out to be one of the least interesting characters at Litchfield. Each character chooses to cope with prison life differently, and their relationships with other inmates might have nothing to do with their lives as citizens.
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In prison, several inmates have a job, even a sex life, both of which affords them some agency they may not have had at home. But while each character's flashback sequence is purposeful (this isn’t Lost), you’ll quickly find that what goes on inside the prison walls is way more interesting. In OITNB, it’s not just Piper’s life that was disrupted as a result of her arrest her fiancé, Larry (Jason Biggs), and her friends and family must carry on with their lives as well. (Sure, the mainstream media has declared that we're at a "transgender tipping point," but casting a trans actress to portray a trans character is a big deal and happens too rarely.) And those women are a refreshingly subversive set that includes characters rarely seen on television: elderly women, people of color, the overweight, and notably, a black transgender woman played by the trailblazing actress Laverne Cox. By showing Piper, whom Kohan once described as her " Trojan Horse" to get more diverse stories on TV, as a tone deaf character grossly unaware of her own privilege, OITNB makes her the window into the lives of much more fascinating women. Over time, the dramedy slowly rebels against that conventional, fish-out-of-water narrative to depict the absurdity and horror of prison life. The show's protagonist is a bourgeois, white New Yorker, which-for the most part-is not representative of women in the criminal justice system.