Creators of OITNB and Transparent Butt Heads at New Yorker Festival
About their approach to art, anyway. All was revealed at the New Yorker Festival, of course, where all the serious beefs go down.
An Ex-Con Reviews Orange Is The New Black and Calls Bullshit, Mostly
An ex-con reviewed Orange Is The New Black and it’s hilariously refreshing. Her first obvious note is that the show is more Blossom than Lockup, where guards act like exasperated dads instead of strangers paid to rule your life.
Jenji Kohan's Next Project is About the Salem Witch Trials
Because she wasn't done delighting fans of weed and...prison?, Jenji Kohan, the creator of Weeds and Orange is the New Black is now working on a "provocative period drama" for HBO about...Salem witches!
Writer Compares OITNB to ‘Slave Narratives,’ Sort of Has a Point
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If you’ve already gorged yourself on Netflix’s new mega-popular original series Orange Is the New Black, you know why the show has been the darling of TV critics for the last several weeks — it offers something a little different from even the well-produced cable drama, a format dominated by Tony Soprano antihero…
Jenji Kohan Can Write About Women of Color Because Her Lead Is White
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Jenji Kohan was on Fresh Air today talking about how she is able to tell stories about black and Latina women on Orange Is the New Black because of Piper's whiteness:
Real-Life Sister Ingalls Even More Awesome Than She Is on OITNB
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If you haven’t had the time to binge watch all of Orange Is the New Black yet, I won’t ruin it for you...except for the part about alien space monsters. Didn’t see that coming at all, did you? But seriously — if you haven’t watched the show and don’t want to learn how badass Sister Ingalls, the pacifist nun, or any of…
Jenji Kohan’s New Netflix Show Sounds Like Weeds Redux
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Jenji Kohan, the delightful mind behind Nancy Botwin, El Andy, and that animal-loving Mexican cartel enforcer from Seasons 4 and 5 of Weeds, has created a new show for Netflix called Orange Is the New Black, an adaptation of Piper Kerman’s best-selling memoir. Are you excited? Or did the last few seasons of Weeds…