Orange Is The New Black - A Review
Orange Is The New Black provides a powerful look inside prison, even if through the eyes of embellishing TV writers, producers and directors. Since most commentators rarely stay in prison overnight, this view of prison life is invaluable in portraying the seedy, violent, hateful and depraved aspects of incarceration. Many of the scenes and scenarios depicted really happened in a U.S. prison, normal Hollywood exaggeration excepted. The series compresses those events into installments, making it tough to tell how prevalent and representative each special disaster and characteristic is. Prison conditions obviously vary from prison to prison, but we on the outside cannot very well tell how much. We need shows like this one. Orange Is The New Black tends towards the awful and hopeless aspects of prison life, which is fitting for an institution that has rarely succeeded in achieving its original goals of repentance, renewal and rehabi...