Should you watch Orange Is the New Black?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Orange Is the New Black
Series · 2013
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
The sides of Orange Is the New Black
- A New Yorker sent to a women's prison
- Inmates with a backstory each
- Prison friendships, gangs and guards
Orange Is the New Black is good for you if…
- you like a show where every inmate at Litchfield gets her own story.
- you like laughing at prison life while it hurts.
- you want women who become each other's family behind bars.
Orange Is the New Black is bad for you if…
- seven seasons is too much for you.
- you'd rather not watch frequent sex scenes, or you watch with others.
- you can't take deaths, addiction and abuse inside a prison.
About: prison · sisterhood · second chances
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