Orange Is The New Black.

Is anyone else obsessed with the new Netflix Original Series called Orange Is the New Black?  Because I think it is fabulous!  Amazing casting, acting, writing, just everything is amazing!  The first season, which is thirteen episodes long, aired July 11th, 2013.  The show was created by Jenji Kohan and produced by Lionsgate Television.  Apparently the show is based on Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman, a memoir about her own experience in prison.  I'll read the book and let you know how it was.  I'm interested in how much of the real experiences from the book are in the show.  Check out this great article here with an interview from Piper Kerman about her experiences and the show.

The show stars Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman, a woman in her early thirties who was sentenced to fifteen months in jail for transporting drug money ten years earlier.  Her ex-lesbian lover, Alex Vause played by the talented Laura Prepon, ratted her out to make her own sentence shorter.  Oh, did I mention she's in prison with Piper?  Then there are a host of talented people such as Jason Biggs who plays Larry, Piper's fiance.

Netflix renewed Orange Is the New Black on June 27, 2013 for a second season.  Yeah, that's right, it was renewed before the show was even aired on Netflix.  Luckily, the show is popular and doing quite well on Netflix but it does seem odd to renew it before it airs.  I mean, even if it does well in testing, it could still bomb to the general public.  But that just isn't the case for this Netflix Original.

This show is unique.  Numerous story lines about male prisons are in existence, like Shawshank Redemption and The Longest Yard (to name two totally different types of movies).  But this is the first time I've ever seen anything about a female prison.  If there is something already about women's prison then I would like to watch it because this is an interesting topic.  It is something I knew little about yet should be relevant in pop-culture.

My fiance posed an interesting question today: Why are men's prisons more violent?  Well, they aren't really.  Women are just different.  We're catty, we back-stab, we fight with our words not our fists.  Orange Is the New Black features plenty of physical fighting, too but it mostly depicts the social relationships between women.  It's fascinating!

If you have not checked out Orange Is the New Black then I suggest you do because it is worth the watch.  It is original and well made.  Kudos to Netflix for another successful original series.  I don't know how they do it but I hope they keep up the good work.

The title theme song "You've Got Time" is an original written and performed by Regina Spektor for the series.  I love Regina and this song is great.  Take a listen to the full song below!