Orange Is the New Black (2013)
Orange Is the New Black is a 2013 drama series created by Jenji Kohan. It stars Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon and Kate Mulgrew.
Piper Chapman, a well-off New Yorker with an artisanal-soap business and a nice fiance, gets sent to Litchfield Penitentiary for a drug crime she committed a decade earlier. What starts as one privileged woman's fish-out-of-water panic widens, season by season, into a full portrait of the women around her: their histories, their alliances, their humor, and the failures of the system holding them. Jenji Kohan adapted Piper Kerman's memoir into a comedy-drama that swings from broad jokes to real heartbreak, anchored by Taylor Schilling, Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, and one of television's largest, most varied ensembles of women.
Quick answers
What is Orange Is the New Black about?
Piper Chapman, a well-off New Yorker with an artisanal-soap business and a nice fiance, gets sent to Litchfield Penitentiary for a drug crime she committed a decade earlier. What starts as one privileged woman's fish-out-of-water panic widens, season by season, into a full portrait of the women around her: their histories, their alliances, their humor, and the failures of the system holding them. Jenji Kohan adapted Piper Kerman's memoir into a comedy-drama that swings from broad jokes to real heartbreak, anchored by Taylor Schilling, Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, and one of television's largest, most varied ensembles of women.
When was Orange Is the New Black released?
Orange Is the New Black was released on 11 July 2013.
How many episodes does Orange Is the New Black have?
Orange Is the New Black has 91 episodes across 7 seasons.
Who made Orange Is the New Black?
Orange Is the New Black was created by Jenji Kohan.
Where can I watch Orange Is the New Black?
Orange Is the New Black is available on Netflix, Google Play, Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Orange Is the New Black
Stream: Netflix
Rent: Google Play
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
Cast
- Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman
- Laura Prepon as Alex Vause
- Kate Mulgrew as Galina 'Red' Reznikov
- Nick Sandow as Joe Caputo
- Uzo Aduba as Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren
- Dascha Polanco as Dayanara Diaz
- Danielle Brooks as Tasha 'Taystee' Jefferson
- Selenis Leyva as Gloria Mendoza
- Yael Stone as Lorna Morello
- Taryn Manning as Tiffany 'Pennsatucky' Doggett
- Jackie Cruz as Marisol 'Flaca' Gonzales
- Adrienne C. Moore as Cindy Hayes
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A few thoughts on Orange Is the New Black
Pair it with stories built on confinement and found family. The Shawshank Redemption (film) is the definitive prison drama about dignity behind bars. Red Dead Redemption 2 (game) traces a chosen family of outlaws watching their world close in. The Crucible (play) dramatizes how communities turn on their own under pressure. All three trade in survival, loyalty, and injustice.
Life inside, told from the cellblock
Orange Is the New Black opens with Piper's fish-out-of-water panic and widens into a full portrait of a women's prison. These stories go inside the same walls, trading privilege for survival, alliances and gallows humor, whether the setting is a men's block, an Australian cellblock or a legendary escape that made the papers.
Big-ensemble comedy-drama with heart and bite
Before the razor wire, Orange Is the New Black is a comedy-drama with a huge cast and a habit of swinging from jokes to heartbreak. These shows share that register, giving big messy ensembles room to be funny and tender at once, built around women you keep rooting for even when they behave badly.
Ordinary people pulled into crime
Piper lands in Litchfield for a drug crime a decade old, and Orange Is the New Black keeps circling how ordinary lives slide into trouble. These follow the same slide, from small hustles to real danger, watching regular people talk themselves into schemes and then scramble to live with the consequences.
The justice system, on both sides of the bars
Orange Is the New Black never lets you forget the machinery around Piper: courts, lawyers, and rules that bend for some and crush others. These stories put that system on trial, from sharp legal dramas to a stage classic about a town's rush to judgment, all asking who justice actually serves.