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Orange Is the New Black (sometimes abbreviated to OITNB) is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. [1] [2] The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum security federal prison. [3]
The character of Alex Vause is loosely based on Catherine Cleary Wolters, ex-girlfriend of Piper Kerman, the author of Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison and an executive consultant on the series. [1] [2] In Kerman's memoir, Wolters is given the pseudonym Nora Jansen, who is a marginal character in the book. [3]
It consists of thirteen episodes, each between 54–60 minutes, with a 77-minute finale. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. The series is created and adapted for television by Jenji Kohan.
Based on Piper Kerman’s 2010 memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, the series follows PR exec Piper Chapman (Schilling) as she adjusts to life in a minimum-security women ...
Orange Is the New Black has received critical acclaim, particularly praised for humanizing prisoners [17] [18] and for its depiction of race, sexuality, gender and body types. [19] The first season received positive reviews from critics, review aggregator Metacritic gave it a weighted average score of 79 out of 100 based on reviews from 32 ...
Orange Is the New Black has been a significant success for Netflix, becoming its most-watched original series. [2] [3] [4] The series has received critical acclaim since its debut, [5] [6] and many awards and nominations in both comedy and drama categories. Orange Is the New Black has received 16 Emmy Award nominations and four wins
Stephen Falk recapped several reality TV shows at TWoP as he was transitioning from movie screenwriting to television, and since has become a producer for several television shows, including Orange is the New Black and Weeds, along with being the creator, writer and showrunner of You're the Worst. [19]
In 1963, when she was 19, she “escaped to New York,” where she found a place in the downtown art scene (“I washed Jasper Johns’ brushes”), until she linked up with the Stones.