Anyone Else Enjoy "Orange is the New Black"?

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I'm late to Netflix but my son recently got it for us. An episode a day and I'll be caught up in a few months. I read and re-read the book. But I've also read interviews of how characters were developed. Really well done, they say that women who have been there applaud it for being realistic.
 

We binge watched ONB when it first came out. Series 1 was great. Series 2 a letdown. Series 3 was okay.

Check out Netflix for Wentworth - an Aussie women's prison drama that's really good!
 
I just watched show two tonight. I'll have to check out "Wentworth" too though. Kinda weird because my daughter enjoys it too. I mean she's kind of aware of adult subject matter, but really like everything else, it just goes over her head. The frozen cat went over my head too. Maybe a Russian specialty?;)
 

She's going on 15 but way cognitively delayed. I mean some of it...that we immediately process what is going on. When Piper gets off the phone and the warden is reaching for the hand lotion. Yep we get it instantly. She doesn't have that frame of reference...it just goes by like hum that's weird...She just enjoys following the basic story.

Piper is in jail because her girlfriend asked her to break the law. Pops got mad at Piper and then they made up. Pops made the bad Russian guys mad. Crazy Eyes likes Piper a lot. Just breaking it into what she can understand...
 
fureverywhere said:
I'm late to Netflix but my son recently got it for us. An episode a day and I'll be caught up in a few months. I read and re-read the book. But I've also read interviews of how characters were developed. Really well done, they say that women who have been there applaud it for being realistic.
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We've had Netflix forever. We share with our daughter in Az. You can have 'x' amount of people on your account. My 79 yo brother in law is on with us too but he's going to get kicked off the 'island' because he's sharing his log in info with other people. Good deal for $7.99 a month.

Amazon is pretty much the same thing as is Comcast and their HBO go.
 
My wife and I got Netflix last year and both enjoy the service as well as the show Orange is the New Black. We're into season 3 now. Started watching House of Cards, but have only gotten part of the way into season 1 thus far.
 
Okay we're up to maybe show six. My one son likened this stuff to being on a really wild rollercoaster. You get off and you're drained and like Whoaa...but you can hardly wait to get in line and get on again. I swear in ten years I have only watched "Mysteries of the Museum" all the way through. Otherwise I didn't need a TV. We just closed with Pornstache letting the junkie die...I can't cry or my daughter freaks out. But crap, you feel like you know these characters.
 
fureverywhere said:
Okay we're up to maybe show six. My one son likened this stuff to being on a really wild rollercoaster. You get off and you're drained and like Whoaa...but you can hardly wait to get in line and get on again. I swear in ten years I have only watched "Mysteries of the Museum" all the way through. Otherwise I didn't need a TV. We just closed with Pornstache letting the junkie die...I can't cry or my daughter freaks out. But crap, you feel like you know these characters.
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Lol
I finished season 3,I want more!
What episode are you on?
 
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I read Orange is the New Black and liked the book better than the series. The House of Cards is another story. I love it. Especially when Kevin Spacey, every once in awhile, looks directly into the camera and speaks as if he is talking to you personally.
 
We're on one, the very beginning. I read the book when it came out. I also want to read the book by the real "Alex".
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I read Orange is the New Black and liked the book better than the series. The House of Cards is another story. I love it. Especially when Kevin Spacey, every once in awhile, looks directly into the camera and speaks as if he is talking to you personally.
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I didn't much care for ONB, either. I generally don't like prison movies -- the only exceptions being The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption and Dead Man Walking.
 
I think it's interesting how many name changes Alex went under Nora in the book and Cleary in real life. BTW Laura Prepon is my total girl crush.
 
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