The orange is the new black season 1
It’s an episode that makes great use of the suspense, the tension, and the claustrophobia of Litchfield. This is where Orange Is The New Black got really interesting to me. Piper tries to lay low, but her plan goes out the window when Crazy Eyes pisses on the cubicle’s floor.Įpisode 104 - “Imaginary Enemies” Featured Inmate: Miss Claudette In Litchfield, Piper “breaks up” with Crazy Eyes and finally gets her bunk assignment - but it’s with Miss Claudette, the menacing prisoner and rumored voodoo expert everyone is scared of. “I work for an international drug cartel,” Alex says coolly. In a flashback, we learn how Piper met Alex: A bar, of course, and it’s very easy to see why she fell for her. In an act of desperation, Sophia asks her wife to smuggle in the pills, and the entire scene subtly shows the deterioration of their relationship. She easily has the most heartbreaking story so far - and Laverne Cox plays her brilliantly - and this episode is when OITNB really starts to make viewers feel sympathy for prisoners. More pressing is the fact that Sophia can’t get the right estrogen pills and resorts to swallowing a piece of a toy to get an emergency doctor visit.Īs for Sophia’s backstory: she committed fraud by using bad credit cards to pay for everything from her surgery to her son’s sneakers. Piper can no longer take jogs on the track, the only time when she feels like a normal person. Sorry, Regina Spektor.Įpisode 103 - “Lesbian Request Denied” Featured Inmate: Sophiaīudget cuts are effecting everyone at Litchfield. Meanwhile, Larry watches Mad Men without Piper because Larry is awful.Īlso, according to a very scientific Twitter poll, Episode 2 is when most fans started skipping past the theme song.
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We learn that prison is a place that’s so awful, so isolated, so cut off from the real world that a movie like Good Luck Chuck is uproariously funny. There is the introduction of Crazy Eyes, everyone’s favorite lovestruck inmate. After learning about the prison bartering system, Piper concocts a lotion to help Red with her back pain. It’s too precious and on-the-nose for Orange Is the New Black, but it doesn’t take up much time. Piper’s prison starvation is contrasted with her flashbacks in which she’s embarking on some hippie, yuppie juice cleanse. Eventually, she pisses off the Russian mob by popping a woman’s implant.
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Red’s backstory shows her attempt to fit in with the other Russian wives in the neighborhood, only to accidentally alienate herself.
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She tries again and again to make things right with Red, but Red isn’t interested in apologies.
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The punishment continues as Piper is being starved by the prison kitchen, denied food at every meal while the other inmates are too scared, and generally unwilling, to help her out (except for Alex, who sneaks her some bread).
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It’s too much for Piper to deal with and she rushes outside, struggling to regain her bearings as the world spins around her, and then the big twist of the series happens: she finds out that Alex, the ex-girlfriend who landed Piper in jail, is in the same prison.Įpisode 102 - “Tit Punch” Featured Inmate: Red There is Sam Healy, Piper’s absolutely terrible counselor with an unnatural vendetta against lesbians, a vendetta that is so comically upsetting that it’s as if lesbians murdered his childhood dog.īy the end, Piper has accidentally insulted Red (the prison cook) by bad-mouthing the food - “an epic fuck-up,” someone points out - and is punished with a used tampon hidden in her breakfast sandwich. The episode sets up the outside characters (her brother, her best friend, and her fiancé Larry, who is more often known among fans as “The Worst”) and introduces a few of the inmates (Morello, the adorably accented inmate obsessed with planning her wedding, and Daya, who soon finds out she’s in the same prison as her mother - when her mother waltzes up and smacks her). The pilot quickly sets up the series: Piper, our main character, begins serving a 15-month sentence in a women’s federal prison. Episode 1 01 - “I Wasn’t Ready”Featured Inmate: Piper