NB! Do not read on if you have not seen Orange is the black season 2.
Through two seasons have Orange is the new black followed life inside the women’s prison Litchfield. But what began as a story of Piper Chapman’s meeting with the US prison system has become a warm-hearted drama about all the women who are trapped within Litchfields walls.
This change was evident already in the previous season. The mainstay of the series is no longer the many comical and contrasting situations that arise in the encounter between a rich, white middle-class girl and a prison with mostly poor African Americans and Hispanics.
Now it’s more about how interpersonal relationships in general can overcome such a small human system.
Still a lot to lose
That story has endured to take a completely new direction, suggesting that it is based on a solid foundation, and this gives third seasonal opportunities to build on. After a dramatic ending to last season, where the battle between the prison two matriarchs Vee and Red got a bloody end for Vees part, it may seem as calm has settled over the prison again.
The first episode begins with the annual celebration of Mother’s Day, where the inmates of the occasion get to visit their respective children. With this theme gets series shown viewers how much the characters have already lost, and how much they still have to lose.
Those moments
The mixture of soreness, loss, expectations, disappointments and small pleasures that trembles in the air during this visit provides a good entrance to a season that far greater extent will deal with the interpersonal relationships. Season start clearly shows how good the series has been on the small moments.
There’s a lot of good quality drama hidden in simple lines, gaze alternation and body language, here. Like when the kids will turn on a piñata, but must use his bare hands because lumber is illegal in prison. Or when the transsexual Sophia Bursa (Laverne Cox) on dire view tries to give his son advice about girls, but can not quite decide if she should do what a man or a woman.
Clearly dissidence
At the same time we have gained a thorough understanding of the various characters in the series, and in this respect now relate to them as individuals, are also events like this Mother’s Day a clear picture that the vast majority of victims of the same broken system. They have all been abandoned in childhood, and it is possible that their child or unborn child, will suffer the same fate.
The prison, which on paper has as one of its core tasks to build them up to a life outside the walls, in this context, only to break them down further. Strong criticism of the system was the impetus for the author Piper Kerman originally wrote the book that this TV series is based on. That the series in the third season dare to show their serious undertones dresses it just good.
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Have given the actors trust
At Pipers history has gone from being the main plot of the series to be the gateway to the stories of a multitude of characters has really happened surprisingly smoothly.
It is largely due to the serieskaper Jenji Kohan has managed to build up a role gallery with so many strong female roles, although several of them were relatively undescribed leaf before this series Kohan nevertheless given them the confidence and leeway to carry their share of the series on his own.
Breaker with Hollywood rules
Orange is the new black has received much media attention to break with Hollywood’s unwritten rules about age, appearance and body for female roles. This is not only refreshing, but popular cultural revolutionary. After three seasons, the series has proved once and for all that it is possible to make commercial success as a woman on the TV screen even if you are not 22 years old and size zero.
But Jenji Kohan is not alone take up arms against the male-dominated television industry in Hollywood. Together with other strong female producers that Lena Dunham and Shonda Rhimes, she is about to change the rules for the US television industry. It is entirely good news. For more diversity means more opportunities, which will provide many exciting new TV experiences for us viewers for years to come.
Not free of drama
This season of Orange is the new black is both less action-driven and less comical than the previous seasons. It gives characters that Taystee, Poussey, Dayanara, Crazy Eyes, Red and other favorites, fair game to show what is in them. But even if the series has taken a more character-driven direction is still not seasonally completely free of drama.
Litchfield Women’s Prison is threatened with closure and only a privatization of prison can save them. Seeing the prison system from this perspective provides the opportunity to become better acquainted with some of the few male characters who are part of the series, as the conniving warden Joe Caputo and the naive counselor Sam Healy. Here, too, it soon becomes clear that no winners in this system.
Can miss awards
For a series that both cultivates drama and comedy is actually a good deal of Hollywood politics behind these judgments for further genre direction. And it is not without risks turning range of more drama.
It Orange is the new black have experienced with this year’s Emmy Awards, where they are forced to compete in category drama and not in the category of comedy as they have done before. In a tough, competitive industry is viewing figures and prestigious awards the two most important factors for continued survival. Where the series has previously won several awards in the comedy categories, the competition is far tougher in drama categories.
But even if Orange is the new black have to go home empty-handed from the Emmy Awards in September, enough Jenji Kohan made a smart choice in adjusting series towards more pure drama.
For good in the third season it still feels like there are many stories left to tell, not to mention that the series still has several good seasons to come.
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