From the first season on, Orange Is the New Black relished in turning viewer expectations on their heads. What started as a show about a privileged white woman named Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) feeling her way through a minimum security prison became multilayered and complex as the seasons progressed, taking a…
“It’s very different heah. These girls are psychos,” Lorna says in the Season 6 trailer for Orange Is the New Black. Oh yes, that’s right, there was a riot, Litchfield got destroyed, and now there’s a new corrupt prison in town. In Season 6, the inmates relocate to maximum security post-riot, which means they are not…
Here’s a clip from Thursday night’s episode of Viceland’s Party Legends, wherein famous people poetically recount crazy nights out. In this edition, Natasha Lyonne remembers a Las Vegas/Miami double-header weekend that involved a drunk Vegas stripper with a tiny purse, a Swedish DJ on a plane, and a strip club jaunt…
And now, a glimpse into a possible future where Netflix shows start cross-pollinating in ways that don’t make a lot of sense but are pretty cute to watch.
Last season’s Orange Is the New Black had a storyline that addressed the epidemic of cops killing unarmed black people, and it looks like Season 5 will also take a page from reality: In the trailer for the new season, the ladies of Litchfield appear to be protesting their unsafe and inhumane living conditions. As…
It looks like the fifth season of Orange Is The New Black will waste no time in plopping us right back into the action, if this teaser for the fifth season (via Vulture) is any indication.
The week I spoke with actor Adrienne C. Moore was a tough one, not long after the murders of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five Dallas police officers. Yet in her role as “Black Cindy” Hayes in Orange Is the New Black, Moore’s creative life has become increasingly intimate with explorations of systemic racism…
Samira Wiley is Gilead-bound. Together with Elizabeth Moss, the cherished star from Orange Is the New Black will join the cast of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, adapted from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel by the same name.
Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Teresa Giudice probably has a better sex life than most of us. Get it, T.
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…
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 has finally released some data about how much its members binge on certain programs.
Coming to Netflix: A series loosely based upon the fascinating 1980s phenomenon of the TV show G.L.O.W., Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, which combined women’s wrestling with comedy skits and an aesthetic sensibility that can only be described as wildly specific. It was, after all, the ’80s.
From the moment she appeared in the first season of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, Sophia Burset—played by Laverne Cox—became a fan favorite. Here, in this exclusive clip, Cox explains a small part about what makes the character so special.
Season 3 of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black ended with the arrival of hundreds of new inmates as Litchfield took on private investors to stay afloat. The transition—according to the Season 4 trailer—will not be easy.
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…
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.
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…
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…
