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Larry’s dad makes a pretty inarguable case for why she shouldn’t lie on the stands, but Piper’s so in her head, so obsessed with some abstract notions of rightness and loyalty despite learning time and again that she has to fend for herself and not trust Alex, that she convinces herself that the correct thing to do is perjure herself. That exceptionalism, we’ve seen before, gets her into trouble. Alex is right about Piper’s worldview is: “Jesus, it is so hard to keep up with what is black and white for you.” She tries to play it cool with the roach gang at first, but also can’t help but hold herself apart. And you still have Piper’s identity separating her from the pack, both through the reactions of others-take the assassin-not-rapist who singles her out on the plane-and through Piper’s own behavior. You still have your cabin-feverish rituals-roach training rather than chicken-spotting, this time. You still have your zany band of characters, many of whom are damaged, sorting into cliques. The trappings of the new prison may be different from Litchfield-less freedom, more men, altogether scarier to Piper-but the show seemed to be saying that the experience is fundamentally the same. Schilling might submit for her Emmy reel that plane-seat breakdown over the memory of clobbering Doggett I’ll more likely remember her neighbor’s blasé reaction. piggish guards who no longer say “bitch”) or fighting their own inner battles (the woman scared of flying). In prison as often in life, indifference is the default-whether it’s because people are too busy bantering about their romantic conquests (i.e. Everyone elses’ indifference to her panic made for a hilarious and moving juxtaposition. Taylor Schilling’s lip-trembling fright as she moved from one mysterious, ferrying vessel to another felt genuine, even if I didn’t share it: It seemed a lot more likely that she’d be headed to freedom than to life in supermax without a trial, and the twist was that she was headed to neither. Focusing in tightly on Piper, and then disorienting her with a plane flight and a new penitentiary, gave the audience a taste of the maddening effects of solitary confinement-while lengthen the tension from last season’s cliffhanger over Pennsatucky’s fate.
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This was a gutsy move-returning with an hour where the various Gif-making secondary characters who’d turned your show into a cult success were nowhere to be found.īut I think it worked. So, spoilers ahead, in chronological order-don’t read further than you’ve watched. I’ll be updating as I get through the rest of the season in the week to come (the plan is to take this slower than my last three-day House of Cards marathon). From what I can tell so far, it’s like the first one but more in almost every way: more fun, more crass, more ridiculous, and also, yes, more conscientious.īelow, I’ve jotted down quick reviews of each the first six episodes. At the very most-well, let’s see what Season 2 does. At the very least, that means prisoners, usually forgotten by pop culture, are now front of mind. Using the privileged white Piper as a “Trojan horse” into a world rarely depicted on TV, and pumping up the personalities of a supporting cast that’s by a huge factor more diverse that any rival show, Kohan has grabbed a lot of people’s attention. The fact is, the show is ridiculously fun, and given the subject matter, that's a radical virtue. But I’m nevertheless sitting here feeling mostly guilt-free for having binged the first six episodes of the second season-and ready to dive into the next seven. Those critiques aren’t all wrong, at least from what I remember of gobbling up the first season last year.
Others pointed out that it sexed up the memoir it’s based off of, while neutering the book’s message about the injustice of the prison system. Some said that while the show’s diversity should be praised, its stereotypes shouldn't be. The first season of Jenji Kohan’s show about women behind bars earned wild acclaim and the biggest audience Netflix has yet seen for an original series, but a number of critics pointed out that its success had unsavory implications. Horrible stuff, if true, But there’s a smidge of solace to be taken in Orange Is the New Black being used to draw attention to real-world prison problems. “Raw sewage bubbles from the floor, toilets explode, rodents and roaches infest the kitchens, black mold covers the walls, and drinking and bathing water runs brown and smells of sewage,” a rep says in the press release. Coinciding with the debut of Orange Is the New Black’s second season, the New York Civil Liberties Union has launched a campaign spotlighting what the organization calls “inhumane conditions” at Riverhead Correctional Facility, where the Netflix show is filmed.