The show seethed about injustice, but its comic touch meant it rarely, if ever, tipped into agitprop. Its cast, unable to locate the mythical makeup store to which most TV prisoners seem to have secret access, were careful to look the part. It told us rich stories of poor women, rich women, straight women, gay women, trans women, black, white and Latino women. Kohan took a prison memoir by Piper Kerman and turned it into an ambitious comedy-drama about incarcerated women. It is easy, in the age of “peak content”, when TV appears close to offering something for everyone, to forget how revolutionary it was when it first appeared in 2013. Photograph: JoJo Whilden/NetflixĪfter seven seasons, Orange Is the New Black is bowing out. ‘I don’t pull my punches’ … the final season of Orange Is the New Black.
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