After having spent in prison with the inmates from behind my computer screen for about a week, I'm sure Netflix' Orange is the New Black is one of the best TV-series of 2013.
Orange is the New Black follows Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), who is sent to women's prison because she transported a suitcase of drugs money for her former girlfriend years ago. That's right, although Piper is engaged to her boyfried Larry now, she used to be a lesbian, as are many of her fellow inmates.
Although the pilot episode contains quite a lot vulgar scenes (which I
absolutely dislike and are also the reason I don't watch Game of
Thrones), the underlying storyline and subplots are more than just
entertaining. In prison Piper walks into this ex-girlfriend of hers, called Alex (Laura Prepon), which brings along the obvious consequences. Each episode also hightlights the pre-prisonlife of one of the other inmates, which makes you sympathize with every single one of them. Next to that, a lot of intrigue and drama is going on in this high-schoolish, 'small village'-like ghetto called prison, which makes sure you will be clustered toyour screen for t he full hour the episode lasts.
Orange is the New Black is a mixture of primarily comedy, with crime and drama, based on the memoires of Piper Kerman. According to other reviews, the series reflects prisonlife fairly well. An interesting, very originnal primetime TV-series of newcomer Neflix, which I now count on to produce more awesome TV-series in the future.
P.S. There's also lots of great acting to enjoy and a lot of faces to recognize from the past!
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