ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: "Pilot" S1E1 (review)

by Elizabeth Weitz

Before I begin let me say that I held out little hope that Orange Is the New Black would be any good.  Perhaps it's because I had been subjected to Netflix's streaming cruelty in its last two offerings of Hemlock Grove and the disastrous Arrested Development Season 4 (I'm leaving House of Cards out of this equation as I had no desire to see it, I'm sure it's just fine).

I didn't think this tale of an upper-class white woman being sent to Federal prison was going to be any better.

How delightfully wrong I was.

Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling)  heading to prison

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