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Orange is the New Black - Season 1 on Netflix - Every sentence is a story

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gdt

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On Episode 10. this show is so good.

When Healy remarks "there's a lot of touching going on down there" I just about died.
 
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gdt

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I do hate the piano bit that plays every single time the romance scenes between Dya and Bennett kick in. its the same one every time.
 
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Takamura-San

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joelseph said:
Finished. Started to loose interest towards the end.

They better shorten the intro for Season 2.
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Finished last night. So many mixed feelings. I expected this to be a short series, but now it seems that it may have been plot-dragged into a longer one. I'll be surprised if they don't extend Piper's sentence due to recent events.

Still enjoying it, but I did not want this to happen.

Edit: looking back a few pages and at the casting decisions it seems that the final scene was as not severe as i presumed it was.
 
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Sanjay

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At episode 4, the music that leads to the credits is amazing.

http://www.tunefind.com/show/orange-is-the-new-black/season-1/15431#songs

"Glósóli by Sigur Ros
A mainly acoustic version of this plays at the end of the episode where Mercy is saying goodbye and you can tell it is this song when it lifts up when the camera pans to Miss Claudette."

Man where the fuck can I get the full version of this :mad:

Best episode so far and a really good show so far. I'm really surprised its more drama focused then comedy because of her previous work on Weeds.
 
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slit

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I recently finished the first season. I really loved the show. I love Red's character. I also liked Yoga Jones, very folksy. I just like her voice and when she revealed what her crime was it came over well. If Alex is gone next season though that will suck. I guess Laura Prepon is only in it for two episodes unless they're swerving us. She needs to be there, it won't be the same. Pennsatucky
getting the shit beat out of her by Piper was gratifying at the end
. Taryn Manning did a good job as the Meth head.
 
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Sec0nd

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LTTP, just finished the season.

First show I wanted to finish in one sitting in a long, long time. I really enjoyed myself with the show but I have to admit it started to drag a bit towards the end. I had the idea that around episode 6 (The Chicken episode?) the show started to become more and more comedy and light hearted. Which is a bit weird as Piper her story can be pretty serious and dark at times. Also the side story with the guard and the Mexican lady (I really can't remember their names, wth?) was just really stupid.

Otherwise it's a great show and I cannot wait for a season 2. Piper is an awesome character and I really dig the setting and the story. It really felt like a breath of fresh air watching this show.
 
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Hindle

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I thought the first season was impressive as far as debuts go. The Dow was pretty funny and contained some genuine emotional scenes.
 
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Messi

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boutdown said:
Laura Prepon is soooooooo hoooooooot.
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God yes...she is beautiful.
 
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Onion A|V Club's Best of 2013 Feature:

- Orange Is The New Black bet on its characters and won
Our best new show of 2013 is Orange Is The New Black, a Netflix original released all at once over the summer. The show followed an affluent young woman, Piper Chapman, into the Litchfield penitentiary, revealing a dark, funny world of hapless prisoners. Orange Is The New Black ventured into storytelling territory that few other shows would dare, and much of its strength came from the way it built its large cast of unconventional female characters. Below is a roundup of the finest moments from the many characters that made Orange Is The New Black the best new show of the year.
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GorillaJu

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Toward the end of the first season I was thinking to myself that man this show really reminds me a lot of Weeds, particularly in that I can't decide if I hate the protagonist or not. I thought that I don't want to hate this character like I ended up detesting the Weeds protagonist, the show became unwatchable to me because of that.

I wondered who Jenji Kohan is and upon Googling the first thing I see is "creator of Weeds."

:lol
 
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OddMorsel said:
Toward the end of the first season I was thinking to myself that man this show really reminds me a lot of Weeds, particularly in that I can't decide if I hate the protagonist or not. I thought that I don't want to hate this character like I ended up detesting the Weeds protagonist, the show became unwatchable to me because of that.

I wondered who Jenji Kohan is and upon Googling the first thing I see is "creator of Weeds."

:lol
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Well, at least here, the "I don't actually like the main character that much" thing seems to be completely intentional, with the reveal of Alex's side of the break-up story.
 
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BertramCooper

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I'm giving this a rewatch. Still a fucking awesome show.

I'd love to get a few flashbacks for the prison staff in addition to the prisoners - Healy and Pornstache especially. But of the prisoners, I can't wait for the inevitable Crazy Eyes flashback ep.

Also, the more Lauren Lapkus, the better.
 
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BertramCooper

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Holy shit I fucking hate Larry so goddamned much.

Obviously I knew this before, but I just rewatched the ep with his stupid Ira Glass interview and I wanted to punch his stupid fucking face.
 
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ivysaur12

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BertramCooper said:
I'm giving this a rewatch. Still a fucking awesome show.

I'd love to get a few flashbacks for the prison staff in addition to the prisoners - Healy and Pornstache especially. But of the prisoners, I can't wait for the inevitable Crazy Eyes flashback ep.

Also, the more Lauren Lapkus, the better.
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I love Lauren Lapkus. It sucks that her first "coming out" to television was on that awful Chelsea Handler sitcom that Laura Prepon headlined.

I miss this show so much. I need a release date for season 2. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxOF7y7_-5o
 
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Cornballer

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- Quick interview with Jenji Kohan in the NYT

Of interest:
Netflix doesn’t release viewership numbers, though the company did reveal in its last earnings report that “Orange Is the New Black” will end the year as its most-watched original series.

Even Ms. Kohan is not privy to those figures. “They say things like, ‘We’re very pleased,’ ” she said. “They’re very cryptic.” For a TV veteran like the 44-year-old Ms. Kohan, who before “Weeds” created the short-lived comedy “The Stones” and wrote for shows like “Tracey Takes On,” the ratings blackout was disconcerting at first. Now not so much.

“I’m finding the dark very restful and easy on the eyes,” she said. And she embraces the creative freedom Netflix grants her. Deftly balancing comedy and drama, “Orange Is the New Black” plays with and subverts the clichés of women’s prison dramas, bringing a complexity to its portrayal of multiracial female characters that’s rarely if ever seen on television.
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Finally finished this and I loved it. I didn't really think the overall story was as strong as it could be but the characters and their interactions were some of the best I saw all year. I ended up really liking so many of the characters, it kind of reminded me of The Wire in that regard. Over time I ended up liking the characters more and more. The episode with the radio show was so damn sad, and watching crazy eyes cry was pretty hard hitting surprisingly.

My only real complaint was how heavy handed it seemed in making the guards and prison workers the bad guys. At first it was clear that you'd like all the prisoners and hate all the guards, but near the end they seemed to try to fix that with the female guard and Pensitucky being the one prisoner you hate and the one guard you like.

Can't wait to see what they do in the next season.
 
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y2dvd

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Finished this a few weeks ago and loved the show. The episode where the prison mates were trying to scare troubling kids was hysterical. The irony
when shit actually starts going down in front of the kids' eyes to truly scare them of prison.
 
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OnPoint

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Just started watching this and I'm a few episodes in. Just finished watching the one where everyone is sick with the flu, 5 or 6 episodes in.

I hate Piper. She's really, really unlikable to me. Her whole story is uninteresting and I kind of hope things go poorly for her.

I'm mostly watching for the other characters.
 
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blackaroni

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Started watching the show a while ago and managed to get halfway to episode 10 and I just can't finish out the season. It was incorrectly labeled as a comedy on Netflix initially and I just can't seem to figure out the point of the show. It's not terrible, but I just can't get into it.
 
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BertramCooper

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ivysaur12 said:
That's got to be so stressful to not know how your show is doing, especially in a world where viewing figures are so prevalent.
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I'd imagine it would be more liberating than stressful.

At this point, I don't think Netflix even cares that much about viewing figures. They seem to be more focused on building a large library of original content than on short-term metrics like viewing figures. And I think they care even less about critical reception, if Hemlock Grove is any indication.
 
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A Link to the Past

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Marathoned it in a couple sittings. Was really enamoured by it all. All the time I was expecting to see
Pennsatucky in a similar light to all of the other inmates with her backstory; instead, she is depicted in a completely unsympathetic light. Meth head, abortion junkie, deranged murderer. All of the building up they did for her, making us prepared to see something good in her by setting her up as such an asshole. I was thinking, 'no way they could have the big reveal be 'surprise! she really IS an asshole!', but lo and behold.

A wonderful twist with the end too;
making Healy the pretty clear-cut villain of everything that was happening was pretty solid. Pornstache was a pretty big shithead - like a real big shithead - but even when it came down to putting Chapman in solitary, he found it to be pretty uncalled for. Pennsatucky was an all-around horrible person, but she was more or less pretty fucked up in the head. I was becoming bothered by Healy's increasingly cruel actions and reactions, but when he actually allowed a murder to possibly occur, he made my shit list.

I'm super glad that I didn't watch this when it came out; otherwise, I'd be chomping at the bit for the continuation more than I already am. Of course once season 2 catches up and I do another two-day marathon, I'll be left a horrible mess with the even longer wait for season 3.
 
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Yeezus Saves said:
Started watching the show a while ago and managed to get halfway to episode 10 and I just can't finish out the season. It was incorrectly labeled as a comedy on Netflix initially and I just can't seem to figure out the point of the show. It's not terrible, but I just can't get into it.
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Wife and I are about 8 or 9 episodes in after months of trudging through. We can't seem to finish it either. "Nothing happens," she says. While I disagree, the pacing suddenly drags after the Chickening episode.
 
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