Orange Is the New Black's Fourth Season Is Vexingly Tragic and Rewarding

In its infancy, Orange Is the New Black was the story of Piper Chapman, a narcissistic white woman thrown into a prison complex that seemingly erased privilege. It didn’t take long for the series to reveal itself as less about the chronicles of Piper—the show’s obnoxious nucleus—and more as a tragic saga about the…
A Pop-Up in Singapore Is Serving 'Prison Grub' in a Jail-Like Setting to Promote OITNB
Here is a bad idea: to celebrate the return of Orange Is the New Black, a restaurant in Singapore, in an apparent partnership with Netflix, is doing a pop-up “prison dining experience.” That means “home-cooked prison grub” served in a jail-like cafeteria setting. Piper Kerman, who wrote the book the show is based on…
Netflix Sneakily Implements Price Increase for Its Longtime Patrons
Last year Netflix hiked up its subscription rates for new members but, in a merciful gesture, allowed existing customers to continue paying the same prices. But come May 2016, that Buffy the Vampire Slayer binge will cost you an extra two dollars per month whether you’re a longtime addict—err, I mean subscriber—or a…
OITNB Star Diane Guerrero Advocates for the End Of Deportations
When Diane Guerrero, star of Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was 14, she returned home to find her house vacant. Her parents and brother, she soon learned, had been deported to Colombia. Now the Colombian actress advocates fiercely for an end to undocumented immigrant deportation.
National Treasure Uzo Aduba Brought Her Prom Date to the SAG Awards
Garden rose of our hearts Uzo Aduba continues to dazzle with the power of her screen presence while simultaneously charming us all to death. At last night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards she won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series — and who was there to escort her? Her high school…
The Best Worst Stereotypically Southern TV Characters of 2015
Much of television is written by people who grew up, or at least who have lived the majority of their lives, in a big city—often New York or Los Angeles. For that reason, characters who are culturally not from one of those places are at risk of getting written in broad strokes, becoming caricatures of whatever culture…
Popular TV Shows We Stopped Watching in 2015, For Reasons Like 'They Sucked'
For several years now, we have been in the throes of an era critics like to refer to as a “TV renaissance.” This ostensibly means that since the success of The Sopranos and The Wire, writers, directors and producers have been challenging themselves to make better, more literary and long-lasting series, built upon…
Ruby Rose's Fan Club Decreases After Selfie With Floyd Mayweather
The world loves Ruby Rose a little bit less now after the Orange Is the New Black actress posted this photo of herself with domestic abuser Floyd Mayweather on Instagram with the caption “the champ!!!”
Ruby Rose Explains Why She Chose Not to Transition
The latest season of Orange Is the New Black brought newcomer Ruby Rose, an Australian actress and the Internet’s latest “girl crush.” Though Rose describes herself as gender fluid and chooses to use female pronouns, she had considered transitioning when she was younger. She even started saving for gender reassignment…
How Realistic Is Leanne's Backstory on Orange Is the New Black?
It’s a well recognized point that one of the best—if not the best—part of Orange Is the New Black is the slow reveal of the characters’ backstories, particularly the stories of minor characters who existed solely on the periphery of the series’ early episodes.

