Orange is the New Black
| Television series | |
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| German title | Orange is the New Black |
| Original title | Orange is the New Black |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2013-2019 |
| Production company |
Lionsgate Television, Tilted Productions |
| length | approx. 51-92 minutes |
| Episodes | 91 in 7 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Dramedy |
| Theme music | Regina Spektor - You've Got Time |
| idea | Jenji Kohan |
| production |
Jenji Kohan , Liz Friedman |
| music |
Scott Doherty , Brandon Jay , Gwendolyn Sanford |
| Initial release | July 11, 2013 (US) on Netflix |
First publication in German |
September 16, 2014 on Netflix |
| occupation | |
Orange Is the New Black (often abbreviated OITNB ) is a US Dramedyserie of Jenji Kohan that from July 2013 in the United States from Netflix via streaming was published. The series is based on the book Orange Is the New Black: Mein Jahr im Frauenknast by Piper Kerman . In Germany, the series has also been available on Netflix since September 16, 2014. The series has been running on ZDFneo since April 2017 .
In early February 2016, the series was extended by three more seasons. In October 2018, Netflix announced that the series would end after the seventh season in 2019.
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Piper Chapman is from Connecticut and lives in New York . She runs a successful cosmetics line, is bisexual, and happily engaged to Larry Bloom. One day, her past catches up with her and sentenced to 15 months in prison for ten years ago drug money laundering in college with her lover Alex. In prison she meets women from all walks of life and unexpectedly also meets her former friend Alex. During the course of the detention, she gets back together with her ex. Meanwhile, Piper's fiancé starts something with her best friend.
In the series, the current plot is repeatedly interrupted by flashbacks into the past of the individual characters, gradually telling the entire prehistory up to the point of imprisonment.
characters
Piper Chapman
Piper is a 32-year-old manager who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for carrying a suitcase of drug money for her lover Alex ten years earlier. She is a typical white from the middle class in the USA and has to learn how to deal with the other prisoners from scratch in prison. She makes enemies in her first week and has to deal with bullying, because as a white woman she not only belongs to the minority in prison, but is also a loner with her social class. Her only connection is with Alex, who she meets again in prison. She initially works in the prison's electrical workshop. After an unsubstantiated stay in solitary confinement, she starts another affair with Alex. Then her fiancé Larry breaks up with Piper. After the end of the affair with Alex (because she betrayed her ten years earlier and is therefore the reason for her imprisonment), she reaches a social and mental low point, ends up in solitary confinement again and has to spend a few weeks in Chicago prison. After another betrayal by Alex, she is returned to Litchfield Prison. After a while there, she was given a leave of absence and began to establish contact with Alex again. After their re-imprisonment, both start a relationship again.
In the third season, Piper builds an illegal "panty shop" in which she sells prison inmates' underwear via the Internet. The underwear was stolen from a company that uses inmates to manufacture its products in prison. Since Alex didn't seem like the strong personality Piper fell in love with in season three, she had a romance with Stella Carlin, a newcomer to Litchfield from Australia. She tattoos Piper with the slogan trust no bitch on her arm. When Carlin learns she's about to be fired, she steals the proceeds from Piper's business. Piper finds out about this and, in an intrigue against Carlin, manages to get Carlin to be transferred to the maximum security area of the prison instead of being released, where she is incarcerated with Nichols.
In the fourth season she tries to defend her new status as an alpha animal in prison. Because of this she fails - because of a lack of experience, which consisted of little more than ghetto clichés, because of the doubling of the number of prisoners at the end of the third season, which significantly changes the majority in favor of the Latinas, and because of her inability to make contacts in the criminal milieu of the prison to keep mutual benefit that protect them. With false intentions, Piper founds a working group against organized gangs in prison with the support of Superintendent Piscatella, which, however, quickly developed into a racist neo-Nazi offshoot in prison due to the composition of white prisoners. Her new inmate Stephanie Hapakuka from Hawaii is Piper's protector at first, but after the white faction has formed in prison, Piper is not ready to protect her from the racist mob. So she finally betrays Piper to the Latinas, who copied Piper's business idea and who, now that their position in prison has been weakened, branded Piper in an ambush in the kitchen with a swastika because of their ties to the neo-Nazi scene . With the help of Red, the brand is transformed into a window. At the end of the fourth season, Piper protests half-heartedly against the white torture of Blanca Flores in the cafeteria, thus distancing herself from the Aryan sisterhood, in the creation of which she was unintentionally involved.
Alex Vause
Alex is a convicted drug smuggler who worked for Kubra, the leader of a drug cartel. Ten years before she was arrested in Litchfield, she had had a relationship with Piper that she found hard to come to terms with. She comes from a poor background and grew up with a single mother. She got to know her father, a musician, late. In prison she continues the relationship with Piper on-and-off and after several mutual betrayals. Alex Vause was assigned to the laundry service, including with the initial enemy Pennsatucky. At the end of the third season, a hit man smuggled his way into Litchfield as a guard, who, however, at the beginning of the fourth season, while trying to strangle Alex in the greenhouse, was knocked down by Alex's fellow inmate Lolly Whitehill and later finally killed by Vause. However, she does not inform Whitehill of this, so she continues to believe that she is the murderer, which is the undoing of the unstable woman after the discovery of the corpse.
Sam Healy
Sam Healy is the head of the prison guards with a past as a social worker until the end of season three. He is an almost manic anti-lesbian and, despite all his attempts, has difficulty making long-term contact with people. His offers for social work fail because of their simple construction. He is also said to have a power problem. In a review it is shown that his mother was in psychiatric treatment, which also included electroconvulsive therapy , because of angelic visions and an alleged homosexuality . When his mother tried to stop treatment against his father's wishes, she sought support from her son Sam. The latter, however, was frightened by his mother's mental state and approved of the treatment. The mother then fled from her parents' house.
He has a spoiled, Ukrainian "catalog wife" named Katya, who speaks Russian and only limited English, which leads to problems in the marriage. Since the prisoner Red is from Russia, he often seeks her advice for his relationship. Ultimately, however, he has to see with the help of Red that this marriage has no future, so he divorces Katya. However, after their divorce, he doesn't stop calling her.
In prison he tries to be a counselor for the women, but seems unsympathetic and repulsive to most of the inmates. In an attempt to bind prisoners to his offers, he does not shy away from fighting his colleague Berdie Rogers, giving false information about the rights of prisoners and prescribing medication. In season four, Healy is sidelined by Jailer Piscatella from the Justice Department. In a final phone call to his divorced wife, he admits that he is not good at his job. After a suicide attempt, which he abandons because of a call on his cell phone, he is now a patient in a psychiatric institution. In the last season he works in the restaurant business and is visited by Joe Caputo.
Claudette "Miss Claudette" Pelage
Miss Claudette comes from Haiti and is Piper's first cell mate in the "Bay". She is very strict and feared in prison. In her previous life she ran a cleaning service where she employed illegally immigrated children. She is in jail for murdering a man who raped one of her girls. After initially despising and attacking Piper, she becomes more accessible to her over time. When her appeal in court fails and the guard Fischer, who tries to gain the respect of the prisoners, wants to warn Claudette, Miss Claudette attacks Fischer and is moved from there to the maximum security wing forever.
Galina "Red" Reznikov
Red is the prison's kitchen chef and chief gardener. She and her husband ran a restaurant that he had to close while they were in custody. She was sentenced to prison for complicity with the Russian mafia and multiple murders. Red is feared or respected by the other inmates depending on their loyalty. She fights with Vee and Judy King, both of whom are about her age, but showed compassion for the younger women in need. She supports Nicky in her efforts to get clean and Piper when she is defeated in the gang fight with the Latinas and wants to get rid of the branding. In the first season she receives a book about the garden from Poussey, from which she reads out at a commemorative round after the death of Poussey in the fourth season. She believes that someone who is busy is too busy to get involved in drugs and crime. The kitchen and garden should help the prisoners to stay out of trouble. In the fourth season the garden for construction work on Litchfield is destroyed at the instigation of prison guard Piscatella, with the body of the assassin, which Alex, Whitehill and Frieda buried there, is excavated. Red is then illegally interrogated by Piscatella and kept awake for several days. When an inmate of Piscatella is used for detention during which she is not allowed to sit down, this measure prompts the Litchfield inmates to protest in the cafeteria, which Piscatella eventually breaks up by force.
Yvonne "Vee" Parker
Vee is a textbook matriarchal psychopath who binds neglected and orphans as surrogate mothers to use as drug couriers. She makes sure that she comes out clean even during examinations and searches, manipulates those around her and maintains loyalty only in the prospect of her own gain: she also uses those around her for her personal protection and drops her couriers as soon as they get into trouble and they are no longer useful. Taystee was one of her first victims among Litchfield inmates when, after initially resisting Vee, she was forced to join her gang over problems in her foster family. Since Poussey is the only one of the inmates who can resist her charm, she separates the two friends through her maternal influence on Taystee and through homophobic threats against Poussey. While Vee makes cigarettes from smuggled tobacco in prison, Red brings other contraband to prison. Red knows Vee from a previous prison term, and although Red knows about Vee's psychopathic predisposition and tried to kill Vee, after a tie, Vee managed to convince Red to work with him. However, Vee ultimately wants to take over the business from Red and eventually overpowers her with a lock hidden in a sock. Vee then convinces Suzanne that she is the perpetrator. The other prisoners turn against Vee, who escapes from Litchfield through Red's utility tunnel under the garden. Rosa, also on the run, runs over her in the prison van because Vee was previously unfriendly to Rosa.
Larry Bloom
Larry is a freelance writer , journalist, and Piper's fiancé. He is shocked when Piper tells him about her previous life as a lesbian and drug smuggler. At the beginning of the series, he often visits Piper in prison. However, when he learns that Piper's ex-lover is also in this prison, and Piper has not told him, his visits decrease. Larry also hides the fact that his father, who is also Piper's lawyer, read the indictment and Piper was betrayed by Alex. Larry's notoriety rose when he published an article in the New York Times about his relationship with his partner who has now ended up in prison. When Piper cheats on Larry with Alex, both are initially in the dark about the progress of their relationship. The end will be sealed when Larry starts an affair with Piper's best friend and former business partner Polly Harper. Piper and Larry then split up. He described Piper's time in prison as the only journalistic or literary interest in her. Piper later learns that he has become the local editor of a newspaper with his own office.
Nicole "Nicky" Nichols
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Nicky grew up in a very affluent family, but her uncomprehending mother often left Nicky to the nanny. She has been a drug addict since her youth. In prison she meets Red, who helps her get clean more than once. She has a very hedonistic attitude towards sex and drugs and a sarcastic sense of humor. She first worked with Piper in the electrical workshop.
Nicky is a lesbian and has a relationship with Lorna Morello in prison. When Alex and Piper break up again, Nicky and Alex have sex. With Boo, she competes over who can bring most women to orgasm. There are extra points for guards, but an attempt to seduce the guard Fischer fails. When the competition ends in a draw, they bet on Brook Soso, with whom Nicky then has sex. In the fourth season, after staying in the high-security wing and the associated forced drug withdrawal, she prostitutes herself for a guard in exchange for drugs.
Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren
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Suzanne is a mentally retarded prisoner with a highly developed imagination. Her behavior is often strange and infantile, and she is feared by most. She quickly develops an obsession with Piper, which she doesn't reciprocate. In general, she shows an attachment to others that is often perceived as annoying, which is why the inmates keep their distance from her. She was adopted by white parents as a child and showed signs of a mental disorder even then. Due to her state of mind, Suzanne often feels left out.
Vee uses Suzanne's need for respect and affection to make Suzanne her right hand, and Suzanne is the most loyal of Vee's followers. Poussey, who confronts and threatens Vee in the washroom about Taystee, is only stopped by Suzanne at first, but Vee gives Suzanne a sign, which Suzanne immediately starts to punch and kick at Poussey. Poussey, who wants to talk about it in a discussion group founded by Healy, is intimidated by Suzanne who is present. Vee, who socks Red with a lock in order to gain access to her supply tunnel under the prison, confuses Suzanne so much that she believes she was the perpetrator. Vee also convinces her gang to testify against Suzanne. Due to the personal comfort and lack of training of the investigators in dealing with mentally confused people, Suzanne finally comes under false suspicion. Vee's gang members, now suspected by Vee of stolen heroin, want to retract their testimony, but only a forged work order from Healy can force the on-the-move officers to reopen the investigation and cancel their private appointments.
Suzanne loves poetry and writes a science fiction erotic novel in the third season, about which Maureen Kukudio feels drawn to Suzanne. Maureen tries to encourage Suzanne to do more lesbian scenes in her serial and offers her to gain practical experience in the broom closet. At the last moment, however, Suzanne does not dare to enter the broom closet. In the fourth season, the two flee Litchfield when the fence towards the nearby lake is broken, but Suzanne finds Maureen's fantasy world terrifying. She runs back to Litchfield and leaves Maureen in the woods. After talking to Lorna, Suzanne decides to accept Maureen's offer and the two meet in the broom closet. Shortly before Suzanne's climax, Maureen stops and remarks that this is how it feels to be left standing in the woods. When Maureen later seeks contact with Suzanne because they "would be even now", Suzanne rejects her again. In a fight between prisoners instigated by guards, Suzanne and Maureen face each other. Maureen, who wants to fight Suzanne out of frustration at Suzanne's rejection, is severely injured in her face.
Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson
Taystee has been jailed for drug dealing involving her surrogate mother, Vee. She shows herself to be a happy and fun person in Litchfield. Taystee is intelligent and has a special talent for mental arithmetic. Your best friend is Poussey. When Vee, her former second mother, is also arrested, she initially disapproves of her, but soon participates in Vee's business again. Poussey tries to dissuade Taystee, whereupon Vee questions Taystee's loyalty and lets her vouch for Poussey. Taystee threatens Poussey not to speak ill of Vee any longer, but loses her position in Vee's gang when Poussey drunk and destroys inventories of smuggled tobacco. Taystee and Poussey become friends again, but do not respond to the attempts to ingratiate Vee's gang - Black Cindy and Watson. In the fourth season, Taystee Caputo's assistant is in the office and makes money from photos of celebrity inmate Judy King, but at the end of the season she is so upset about the negligent killing of her best friend Poussey by guards that she instigates a violent riot in Litchfield .
Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett
Doggett, nicknamed a country bumpkin, turned to the Christian religion after her imprisonment. She comes from a poor background, was often bullied by her peers as a child, and had drug problems at a young age. She never met her father, a musician according to her mother. Like all drug addicts in Litchfield, she shows a low self-esteem, which she overcompensates for with her religiousness. Outwardly, it is mainly characterized by the poor condition of its teeth.
She was convicted of shooting at an abortion clinic nurse who made fun of Doggett's fifth abortion. A lawyer from a Christian interest group represented the alleged militant opponent of abortion in court.
In prison she, along with a few other Christian friends and the initial enemy Alex Vause, does a laundry service. Because of her impulsive nature, she locks Alex in the dryer and, after Piper rejects her religion, tries to kill Chapman. The attempt fails, however, and Piper then beats Doggett. Doggett is in an abusive relationship with a guard after he raped her. Boo, who stood by her after the rape, rejects her relationship with him.
In flashbacks, her mother teaches her to "just let men do it" when her period starts. Before and after her relationship with Nathan, she only met men who were looking for their own advantage in Dogget, and she only endured sex with them. She declares the rape by the guard to be her own fault, until Boo makes it clear that the guilt lies not with her as the victim, but with the perpetrator.
Lorna Morello
Lorna is in Litchfield for stalking . She wears lipstick and mascara in jail, which highlights her pretty looks. Lorna is fanatically romantic and often acts almost manic-hysterical, but has her heart in the right place. Her dream and favorite topic of conversation is marriage to a man, but she has a relationship with Nicky. She often mentions her fiancé Christopher at the beginning and talks about her dream wedding, but it turns out that this relationship is not real and she has only had one date with Christopher so far. After that date, she began chasing him for several months and threatened him and his partner, which is why he was reported to her and served her sentence in Litchfield. At the end of the third season, she can marry a man. In the fourth season, she asks her sister to check on her husband because he has not visited Lorna in a long time. Lorna soon suspects both of them have committed adultery because they both like caramel cookies and the fact that their sister wears a skirt to the meeting.
Dayanara "Daya" Diaz
Daya arrives in Litchfield on the same day as Piper and meets her mother Aleida, who is also imprisoned. She is a talented manga artist. She starts an affair with Warden Bennett and becomes pregnant. Despite her origins, Daya speaks very little Spanish and is criticized by Gloria for it. Gloria and Aleida compete for affection for various reasons when she becomes pregnant. Her moody nature and demands that he stand by his child “like a man”, as Mendez did, and accept a prison sentence, ultimately repels their child's father, Bennett, and he lets himself be transferred. Daya finds it very difficult to defend herself against the influence of her selfish mother and is often forced to bear the decisions she makes about her and her child.
Aleida Diaz
Aleida is Daya's selfish, selfish and manipulative mother and was already an inmate of Litchfield when her daughter was admitted. As a greeting in prison, she slaps her daughter on the ear. She sees love itself solely as a means to gain advantages, either as "24 hours of fucking" or "cheek pain from smiling". She loves to be loved by her children, but otherwise shows little interest in her children. Flashbacks show her selfish and quick-tempered nature when she leaves the upbringing of her children to her eldest daughter Daya and is only interested in the lifestyle her boyfriend pays for her. For convenience, she gives the dependent Daya to a holiday camp, but when she picks up her daughter again, she reacts jealously to the carer and her new friends. She was able to persuade Daya to throw away her artwork from the summer camp, quickly give up her new friendships and pursue her mother's favorite pastime, watching TV series.
Out of greed for money, she initially promotes the adoption of Daya's child by Mendez's mother behind Daya's back and finds it difficult to convince Daya that it is better for the child. Behind Daya's back, however, she decides at the birth to pretend to Mendez's mother that the child died of complications during the birth and then convinces Daya of the decision she made.
Marisol "Flaca" Gonzalez
Marisol is jailed for fraudulent use of counterfeit drugs. She is usually very noticeably made up. She is close friends with Maritza Ramos, who is also imprisoned. The two often hang out together and act like pubescent schoolgirls, often to the chagrin of the other Latinas. At the end of the 5th season, the two are separated from each other and taken to different prisons.
Gloria Mendoza
The extremely clever Gloria Mendoza is the mother of two children and also a mother figure for the younger Latinas in prison. In the first season she competes with Red for the kitchen duty, which she is also assigned in the second season. She takes care of Daya because her birth mother Aleida has no maternal skills and puts her own interests above those of her daughter. In the third season, Gloria loses her position as head chef again to Red when she takes care of her pubescent son by phone, everything goes haywire in the kitchen without her supervision and Norma performs a magical treatment .
Cindy "Black Cindy" Hayes
Before she was arrested, Cindy worked as an airport security guard. She is very confident, extroverted and takes on the role of a clown. In Vee's prison gang, Cindy swaps cigarettes for services when customers can't pay in postage. Vee finds out through her that she has given up her future and is able to integrate her more closely into her organization. Cindy has to take over the production of the fake cigarette sleeves from used tampon tubes. In the third season she pretends to be Jewish in order to get better nutrition with kosher food. When other prisoners for better food also claim to be Jewish, a rabbi examined the prisoners' religious affiliation. In this investigation, Cindy professes her beliefs in Judaism, whereupon the rabbi gives her permission to convert.
Poussey Washington
Poussey is a young, openly lesbian inmate in Litchfield at the beginning of the series. Her best friend is Taystee and they work together in the institution's library. Her good-humored, positive manner and her cosmopolitanism quickly bring her friends anywhere, which is often shown in flashbacks of the series. She grew up as the child of a US officer who was stationed with his family in different parts of the world. So also at a NATO base in Germany, where, in addition to new friendships with young Germans, she also had a romantic relationship with the daughter of a German lieutenant colonel. The lieutenant colonel caught her having sex with her, who then arranged for her father to be transferred to the United States. Out of shame and probably as a result of fatherly intimidation, her German friend withdrew, whereupon Poussey, devastated, tried to kill the German lieutenant colonel. Your own father could prevent this. Poussey then wanted to start a new life in Amsterdam, but was shortly afterwards sentenced to jail for trespassing on private property and selling about 15 grams of marijuana.
Poussey can secretly make alcohol from fruits like tangerines and oranges in prison, which she also tries to sell. She feels romantic affection for her best friend Taystee, but this is not reciprocated because of the different sexual preferences. She is one of the victims of Vee, who uses a divide et impera survival strategy in season two to take control of the African-American Litchfield inmates and almost destroy the friendship between Poussey and Taystee. In season 4, Poussey and the queer Brook develop a romantic relationship and a future outside of prison becomes conceivable for the two of them. She asks TV cook and fellow inmate Judy King for a post-prison job to help realize these plans.
Unlike Brook, Poussey does not believe in the success of non-violent resistance and civil disobedience, but joins a peaceful prisoner demonstration against the sadistic guard Desi Piscatella towards the end of season four. Trying to break up this demonstration, the petite Poussey is suffocated on the ground and dies by Baxter Bayley, a distracted, inexperienced guard. Her body remains in the prison cafeteria for a day as the prison press team works on a public legend against Poussey to justify her violent death and avoid federal investigations into the prison. The prison press team fails because Poussey, the petite, good-looking, happy daughter of a US general, cannot be conveyed to the public as violent as desired and instead invents the story of the inadequately trained and petty criminal guard Baxter Bayley, who immediately from the Law enforcement company MCC, which owns Litchfield, is about to be sacked. Director Caputo does not read the prepared press release and defends Bayley's actions against Poussey, whose name he does not mention in front of the cameras. At the press release at the end of season four, a violent riot sparked in Litchfield.
The last episode of the fourth season shows not only these events but also flashbacks with Poussey as a traveler and urban world runner, as she experienced her best night in New York. They show how Poussey drove to Brooklyn with friends and got lost in town while chasing after the thief of her cell phone. In search of her friends, she asked drag queens for a cell phone and was invited to a postmodern club to dance shortly afterwards. In the New York subway she watched a musician with a slope , young men from the party scene who offered young women alcohol and tried to engage them in a conversation, a child stealing some money from his sleeping mother and a smiling Sikh . The music ended with applause, the mother woke up and Poussey got off the subway. She rode monks on bicycles to a riverside in New York and chatted with one of them while they shared a joint . Enthusiastic about the experiences and new impressions in the city, Poussey stands alone at the river in front of the New York skyline at night and smiles at the camera as she says goodbye.
While the death of this character was inspired by Eric Garner , the dramaturgy around her death is based on the biography of Martin Luther King , in which the civil rights movement began with peaceful protests until it finally came in response to King's murder, who preached non-violence and peacefulness resulted in violent riots.
Carrie "Big Boo" Black
Big Boo is a sarcastic, homosexual woman who is feared by the other prisoners as a "dyke". The circumstances of her prison sentence are unknown. She is friends with Nicky and later also with Pennsatucky. Since childhood she has rejected role models and clothing for girls and women. All her life she fought to be allowed to be who she is and has had problems with coping with anger, fear and trust up to the present day.
John Bennett
One of the guards in Litchfield, usually just called Bennett. He begins a romantic relationship with Dayanara Diaz, during which she becomes pregnant. In the third season he proposes to Dayanara, but flees because of her intermittent games and threats from her mother and after a rather sobering visit to Dayanara's stepfather Caesar and his family, who confirms his decision not to get involved with their family want.
George Mendez
Mostly called "Mendez" or behind his back "Pornstache" (from "mustache" = mustache, because of his 70s mustache, which porn actors often wore at the time). He's a rather unpopular jailer in Litchfield, who lets inmates orally satisfy himself for money or favors, and otherwise only takes the prison rules as strictly as he likes. Among other things, he is responsible for the suicide of the young, drug addict Trish, but manages to cover it up. Daya's pregnancy, which at some point will no longer be hidden, offers Daya's mother, Gloria and Red the opportunity to intrigue against "Pornstache" Mendez with the dual purpose of firstly getting rid of Mendez and secondly covering up Bennett's fatherhood because they would not have sex together may have, not even by mutual agreement, because she is a prisoner and he is a guard. So they induce Daya to seduce Mendez. It can be the common sex with him by Caputo red-handed catch and says she was raped. Since Figueroa doesn't want to cause a stir, Mendez is only briefly suspended, but after his return, when the prison authorities discover Daya's pregnancy, he is finally fired. He ends up in a men's prison for rape , where his mother visits him for the adoption of Daya's child.
Leanne Taylor
Leanne is a white and drug addict inmate. The exact reason for her sentence is unknown, but as an Amish child she came into conflict with the law on her Rumspringa when FBI officers found a backpack with ID and drugs in a field. Her best friend in prison is Angie, who is also a drug addict and with whom she rarely misses opportunities to numb herself. They drink from Poussey's homemade fruit alcohol, steal nutmeg powder in the kitchen or the heroin Nicky hides from Vee for moments of intoxication together. Leanne is also homophobic and racist, but does not have the courage in the fourth season to join the Aryan sisterhood that Piper accidentally founded.
Leanne desperately wants to be part of a community, but is a person who is strongly oriented towards authority who willingly offers himself to her idols as the right hand and mouthpiece to subordinate the rest of the group to himself. It also shows some typical behavior patterns of drug addicts. To defend her place, she lies, speaks ill of others and is not loyal to anyone except her idol and friend Angie. Her rules only apply to others and the exclusion of people who follow not her but their idol and thus equate with her is her preferred means. It also blames others for the resulting loss of membership. Leanne first belongs to the Pennsatucky religious group who believe of themselves to be fulfilling a religious mission until they are under psychiatric treatment. Later she belongs to the spiritual group around Norma, where she wants to convert the initial meditation circle around Norma into a sect with commandments and theology in order to be taken seriously by outsiders. Poussey, who, like Soso, is marginalized and bullied by Leanne, criticized Norma sharply in front of her group. When Leanne goes to a doubting Norma and keeps referring to others because of the group's crisis, Norma finally tells Leanne to leave.
Leanne is one of those inmates who are always called by her first name.
Norma Romano
Norma is an inmate jailed for manslaughter of her significant other. She suffers from mutism and, although theoretically able to speak, she refrains from it because of a severe stuttering problem. She can communicate with her surroundings through notes and gestures. Norma is Red's best friend and is also a spiritual icon among Litchfield prisoners, as events that affect prisoners' lives often follow the magic she practices: Red regains her position in the kitchen after a magical treatment , but when her success goes to her head and she orders Norma around in the kitchen as in earlier times, Norma gives her a dirty look , whereupon prepackaged and pre-cooked dishes for the steamer replace the meals prepared by Red.
The repressive, depressing and Darwinian environment of the prisoners intensifies their need for community, belief in miracles, security, purpose and hope. Norma first practiced the South American folk magic Santeria with Gloria , until Norma wanted to practice it alone and Gloria ended their collaboration. After that, her methods focus on gestures and touch. She can often help those seeking advice through mute and attentive listening alone; she only uses paper and pen in the circle of her spiritual group for Leanne. She has little direct influence on her spiritual group, most of which is projected onto Norma from this group. Kindness is still one of their spiritual motives.
As a young and insecure woman, Norma became a member of a sect around Guru Mack and his first wife. In later years the state prosecuted for forced and multiple marriages as well as tax fraud, his sect shrank to Norma as the only member. Mack, who never wanted to ask Norma to speak again after her first attempt, was on the verge of nervous breakdown after a car breakdown and in a sarcastic tirade let the building of the illusion of his spirituality collapse in front of Norma, berated her and asked if she was a slave was that she would still follow him, a deceiver. Above all, he now asked Norma to speak. Norma then pushed him off the rock they were standing on to death.
Norma is one of the inmates who are always called by her first name.
Stella Carlin
Stella is an Australian inmate in Litchfield who was only sent to prison for a short time. She wears her hair short and is proud of the original, cliché-free tattoos that cover a large part of her body, including visible areas behind the ear or on the neck. She also tattoos Piper with white paint saying "Trust No Bitch". Piper discovers that Stella is withdrawing the profits from their joint illegal panty business from the bank account and confronts Stella in the prison sewing room, who then promises to repay everything when she is outside. Those who know about the conversation believe that Stella can successfully outsmart Piper. However, she is betrayed by Piper on the day of her scheduled release to the guards, who discover prohibited items in Stella's "bay" - including a dagger made from melted lollipops. Stella is then transferred to the maximum security prison.
Joe Caputo
Initially deputy director of the prison, Caputo first fights against a corrupt superior and against the closure. He plays porn on his office computer and masturbates in the office after visiting female prisoners. When the prison was privatized, he became director himself after a brief collaboration with the CEO's inexperienced son. Initially as deputy director at the side of the security guards as their advocate, the security guards are promoted to his subordinates. Because of the strike by the employed guards, whose position has been cut on a part-time basis, and because of the merging of another prison with Litchfield, he calls for six guards from the maximum security wing. He has a sex-based relationship with his former boss Natalie "Fig" Figueroa, who was cheated on by her homosexual husband and his assistant.
Caputo plays and played in garage bands, a. a. "Sideboob". He gave up his music career and became a prison guard in Litchfield when his girlfriend and future wife became pregnant with another member of the band's child. However, the child's father later became musically more successful and Caputo's wife left her husband for the musician and actual father.
Brook Soso
Brook, of Japanese-Scottish descent, is jailed as an activist. At first she neglects her personal hygiene so much that she is eventually forced to take a shower by the guards. She tries very hard to make new contacts and friendships in prison, which she initially thought was a holiday camp, but is notorious among her fellow prisoners as a chatterbox. She cries a lot and is depressed because she feels very lonely. For some company and to protect herself from Boo, she sleeps with Nicky. Her friend Meadow, about whom she initially speaks enthusiastically, visits her once in prison and admires Brook for her “cool time” in prison. Brook then explains that jail time is not cool, it is bad and will destroy her life, and that wanting to go to jail is stupid. Meadow criticizes Brooks' ingratitude because she drove to Litchfield for three hours - Brook ended their friendship by assuring her that she would never have to do it again. Brook realizes that she has surrounded herself with people she doesn't like at all, which pulls her deeper into her depression. Since the advice from Healey, who advises her to stay to herself and not to seek contact with others, does not help her, she wants to change the supervisor, but Healy prescribes her antidepressants instead. In later episodes, she enters into a relationship with inmate Poussey Washington, who dies in the course of the fourth season. This loss makes her deeply sad again, she erects a memorial made of books to her dead friend, because Washington loved books so much.
Blanca Flores
Blanca Flores is of Dominican descent and an inmate who pays little attention to her personal hygiene. At first she seems mentally confused, but after her admission to psychiatry she interacts more. Piper sacrificed Flores' secret cell phone, which she uses to keep in touch with her boyfriend Diablo, for a deal with Healy, which, however, falls because Piper is unwilling to reveal the name of the owner. In order not to have to do the unpaid work in prison, Blanca stops her personal hygiene. A guard then subjected her to the white torture by being deprived of sleep on a table until she can no longer stand, so that she can be washed. The guard wants to stop the measure when Blanca is already starting to shed his pants, but Captain Piscatella persuades him to stand behind the measure because all the guards are behind him. The prisoners 'protest ignites because of Blanca Flores' treatment, and Poussey is killed during the violent crackdown.
Desi Piscatella
Piscatella is a 1.93 meter tall guard from the maximum security wing of a men's prison, from which he was transferred because of a prohibited relationship with an inmate. His measures are unusually harsh and also part of a show of force that this authoritarian and commanding guard does not shy away from against defenseless prisoners. He is gay and was sent to a homosexual re-education camp by his parents as a child. Against blacks and Latinas, he shows racist tendencies, so he puts Piper in a working group against gang formation in prison, which wants to protect her secret business with stolen underwear. When Piscatella is confronted by Caputo for his insubordination, Piscatella can threaten to withdraw his team from prison and to leave the overcrowded Litchfield to an untrained and understaffed guard if he is not given a free hand. With the death of Poussey, however, he loses Caputo's cover, who has since found out why Piscatella had himself transferred. In season 5 he finds a way into the prison and ties and gagged several inmates, but he is overwhelmed and drugged by others. In the season finale, he is accidentally shot by one of the soldiers who tried to shoot into the ceiling but hit his head because of Piscatella's size.
Joel Luschek
First the electrician and later a guard in Litchfield is Luschek, who is descended from Scottish-French ancestors. He is enormously lazy and disinterested in his work in prison and a user of alcohol and marijuana. He gets into a deal with Nicky, which is supposed to smuggle heroin out of prison by Vee and then sell it. The guards discover a bag from the supply on Luschek's table, whereupon Luschek has Nicky blown up and taken to the high-security wing. To get her out of there, he makes a deal with the prominent inmate Judy King, who uses her influence in Nicky's favor. Luschek then has a sexual affair with her, later he has three sex with her and "Yoga Jones".
Judy King
The prominent white television chef Judy King is sentenced to a prison term for tax evasion, which she is serving through her own influence in Litchfield private prison instead of a state prison. Her own cell is set up, which she only has to share with one other inmate, "Yoga Jones". Her cell furnishings soon include a table with a tablecloth, a television, a soda maker and numerous objects that are actually contraband in prison. The aim of the prison management and the MCC group is to make your term of detention as comfortable as possible so as not to be sued or to get into trouble with the press after your time.
One of her TV productions from the 80s for children's television with a black doll promoted racial prejudice against black people, whereupon her personal security was increased "for her own safety" and her food was brought to her comfortable cell. To make amends with the black faction in prison, she fakes a kiss with Black Cindy as a celebrity photo for gossip magazines, which restores her public reputation. She was released early after the riot to avoid legal action.
Sophia Burset
A black transgender inmate who is charged with credit card fraud by her own son and sentenced to Litchfield prison. Your transformation is complete and complete. Among other things, she cheated with credit cards to pay for her hormone therapy and surgery. In prison she works as a hairdresser and has to find an arrangement with her wife and her new partner, a pastor. Their son Michael, who is going through puberty, is causing increasing difficulties for his mothers. The prejudices directed against them do not relate to their race, but to their gender, which is a constant topic of conversation and allusions. Your authenticity as a human being with feelings is questioned again and again - by the inmates more than by the guards.
Due to a maternal argument with Gloria and transphobic rumors from Aleida, she is increasingly exposed to the hatred of other prisoners, which leads to a violent assault against her in her salon. A guard who observed the incident does not intervene, but flees under the pretense of going to Caputo. Sophia, clearly marked by the incident, calls for investigations and sensitivity training of the guards and threatens to sue Litchfield. MCC then orders her solitary confinement "for her own safety". Sophia's wife is denied information about this measure under the Freedom of Information Act because the federal prisoner is held in a private prison. A photo taken by Caputo's sister Jane Ingalls after a failed attempt and showing Sophia in solitary confinement denied by MCC puts pressure on the MCC board.
Thomas Humphrey
Thomas Humphrey is a guard in Litchfield from the fourth season. He is extremely sadistic. At gunpoint, he forces Maritza to decide to eat 10 dead flies or a baby mouse or lets Suzanne beat up her friend. This traumatic experience by Suzanne leads to the death of Poussey Washington. In the violent uprising that followed, Dayanara obtained a gun and aimed it at Humphrey in the final episode of the fourth season.
In the fifth season, Dayanara shoots Humphrey in the leg, so that he has to be taken care of seriously injured. He dies in the course of the fifth season of a stroke caused by air in his infusion.
Cast and dubbing
The first three seasons were set to music at Studio Funk in Berlin and the following seasons at Studio Hamburg Synchron . The dialogue books are written by Thomas Rock, in the previous seasons the books were written by Janne von Busse (season 1 to 3), Zoë Beck (season 4) and Susanne Schwab (season 5). Engelbert von Nordhausen has directed the dialogue since the fourth season , currently he is supported by Karin Grüger. Before that, the dialogue directors were Torsten Sense , Olaf Mierau and Janina Richter .
Main cast
| Role name | actor | Main role | Supporting role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piper Chapman | Taylor Schilling | 1.01-7.13 | Nadine Heidenreich | |
| Galina "Red" Reznikov | Kate Mulgrew | 1.01-7.13 | Andrea Solter | |
| Alex Vause | Laura Prepon | 1.01-1.13, 3.01-7.13 | 2.01, 2.10-2.13 | Aline Staskowiak |
| Sam Healy | Michael J. Harney | 1.01-4.13 | 6.02, 7.07 | Klaus Nietz |
| Larry Bloom | Jason Biggs | 1.01-2.13 | 5.12, 7.01, 7.10, 7.13 | Kim Hasper |
| Miss Claudette Pelage | Michelle Hurst | 1.01–1.12 | Beate Gerlach | |
| Nicole "Nicky" Nichols | Natasha Lyonne | 2.02-3.03, 4.04-7.13 | 1.01-1.13 | Daniela Thuar |
| Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren | Uzo Aduba | 2.02-7.13 | 1.01-1.13 | Dela Dabulamanzi |
| Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson | Danielle Brooks | 2.02-7.13 | 1.01-1.13 | Maja Maneiro |
| Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett | Taryn Manning | 2.02-7.13 | 1.05-1.13 | Pegah Ferydoni |
| Lorna Morello | Yael Stone | 3.01-7.13 | 1.01-2.13 | Josephine Schmidt |
| Dayanara "Daya" Diaz | Dascha Polanco | 3.01-7.13 | 1.01-2.13 | Lo Rivera |
| Gloria Mendoza | Selenis Leyva | 3.01-7.13 | 1.01-2.13 | Isabel Fernández Casas |
| Joe Caputo | Nick Sandow | 3.01-7.13 | 1.01-2.13 | Peter Reinhardt |
| Cindy "Black Cindy" Hayes | Adrienne C. Moore | 3.01-7.13 | 1.07-2.13 | Joseline Gassen |
| Poussey Washington | Samira Wiley | 3.01-4.13 | 1.02-2.13, 5.06, 7.12 | Sarah Everything |
| Carrie "Big Boo" Black | Lea DeLaria | 4.01-5.13 | 1.01-3.13, 6.03, 7.13 |
Manon Straché (seasons 1–3) , Peggy Sander (seasons 4–6) |
| Aleida Diaz | Elizabeth Rodriguez | 4.06-7.13 | 1.01-4.05 | Iris Artajo |
| Marisol "Flaca" Gonzalez | Jackie Cruz | 4.01-7.13 | 1.02-3.13 | Greta Galisch |
| Maria Ruiz | Jessica Pimentel | 5.01-7.13 | 1.02-4.13 | Daniela Schneider |
| Blanca Flores | Laura Gomez | 6.01-7.13 | 1.01-5.13 |
Ana Kavalis (season 1–5) Ramona Rockenhausen (season 6) |
| Frieda Berlin | Dale Soules | 6.01-7.13 | 2.02-5.13 | Isabella Grothe |
| Joel Luschek | Matt Peters | 6.04-7.13 | 1.02-5.13 | Raffi Guessous |
| Natalie "Fig" Figueroa | Alysia Reiner | 7.01-7.13 | 1.02-3.11, 4.12, 5.08-6.13 | Heath Domanowski |
Supporting cast
| Role name | actor | Supporting role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sophia Burset | Laverne Cox | 1.01-6.13, 7.11 | Arne Stephan |
| Janae Watson | Vicky Jeudy | 1.01-5.13, 7.13 | Esra Vural |
| Erica "Yoga" Jones | Constance Shulman | 1.01-5.13, 7.13 | Daniela Reidies |
| Gina Murphy | Abigail Savage | 1.01-5.13, 7.13 | Lotte Ohm |
| Anita DeMarco | Lin Tucci | 1.01-5.13, 7.13 |
Marie Gruber (Season 1–4) Sabina Trooger (Season 5) |
| Wanda Bell | Catherine Curtin | 1.01-5.13, 7.13 | Susanne Schwab |
| Scott O'Neill | Joel Marsh Garland | 1.01-5.13 | Marko groom |
| Igme Dimaguiba | Kaipo Schwab | 1.01-4.13 | Christopher Groß |
| Wade Donaldson | Brendan Burke | 1.01-4.12 | Manolo Palma |
| Sister Jane Ingalls | Beth Fowler | 1.01-4.10 | Sonja German |
| Cal Chapman | Michael Chernus | 1.01-4.08, 6.13-7.07 | Christoph Banks |
| Elique Maxwell | Lolita Foster | 1.01-3.13 | Velia Krause |
| George "Pornstache" Mendez | Pablo Schreiber | 1.01-1.13, 2.08-3.10, 5.08, 7.13 | Robert Glatzeder |
| Carol Chapman | Deborah Rush | 1.01-3.04, 5.12-5.13, 7.11 | Liane Rudolph |
| John Bennett | Matt McGorry | 1.01-3.02 | Oliver Bender |
| Rosa "Miss Rosa" Cisneros | Barbara Rosenblat | 1.01-2.13, 3.11 | Gabriele Schäfer |
| Polly Harper | Maria Dizzia | 1.01-2.13, 7.10 | Schaukje Könning |
| Pete Harper | Nick Stevenson | 1.01-2.11 | |
| Maritza Ramos | Diane Guerrero | 1.02-5.13, 7.02-7.05 | Loretta star |
| Mei Chang | Lori Tan Chinn | 1.02-5.13, 7.13 | Denise Gorzelanny |
| Leanne Taylor | Emma Myles | 1.02-5.13, 7.13 | Lydia Morgenstern |
| Norma Romano | Annie Golden | 1.02-5.13, 7.13 | |
| Tricia "Trish" Miller | Madeline Brewer | 1.02-1.10 | Yara Blümel |
| Gerrman "Weeping Woman" | Tamara Torres | 1.03-5.13 | Gabriele Schramm-Philipp |
| Crystal burset | Tanya Wright | 1.03-4.11, 6.13 | |
| Cesar Velazquez | Berto Colon | 1.05-3.13, 5.08 | |
| Susan Fischer | Lauren Lapkus | 1.06-2.08, 7.07 | Elke Appelt |
| Angie Rice | Julie Lake | 1.10-5.13, 7.13 | Sabine Winterfeldt |
| Lolly Whitehill | Lori Petty | 2.01, 3.06-4.13, 6.01-7.13 | Katrin Zimmermann |
| Jennifer Digori | Olivia Luccardi | 2.01, 4.01-5.13 | Anita Hopt |
| Yadriel | Ian Paola | 2.02-4.02, 5.11, 5.13, 7.06, 7.13 | Simon Derksen |
| Irma Lerman | Yvette Freeman | 2.02-3.03 | |
| Yvonne "Vee" Parker | Lorraine Toussaint | 2.02-2.13 | Arianne Borbach |
| Taslitz | Judith Roberts | 2.02-2.11, 4.06, 7.13 | |
| Brook Soso | Kimiko Glenn | 2.03-5.13, 7.13 | Maria Hönig |
| Charles Ford | Germar Terrell Gardner | 2.06-3.13 | Uwe Jellinek |
| Kowalski | Hamilton Clancy | 2.08-3.13 | Joachim Kaps |
| Maureen Kukudio | Emily Althaus | 3.01-5.13 | Anke Hillenbrand |
| Berdie Rogers | Marsha S. Blake | 3.01-3.11 | Ilka Teichmüller |
| Delia Mendez-Powell | Mary Steenburgen | 3.02-3.12, 5.08 | Karin Grüger |
| Judy King | Blair Brown | 3.04-5.13, 7.13 | Bea Tober |
| Danny Pearson | Mike Birbiglia | 3.04-4.10 | Markus Pfeiffer |
| Charlie "Donuts" Coates | James McMenamin | 3.06-6.05 | Bastian Sierich |
| Baxter "Gerber" Bayley | Alan Aisenberg | 3.06-5.13 | Benjamin Stöwe |
| Vince Muccio | John Magaro | 3.06-5.13 |
Jeffrey Wipprecht (1st voice) Alexander Ziegenbein (2nd voice) |
| Stella Carlin | Ruby Rose | 3.06-4.06 | Nadja Schönfeldt |
| Jeanie "Babs" Babson | Danielle Herbert | 3.07-3.13, 5.05, 5.13 | Katja Hirsch |
| Linda Ferguson | Beth Dover | 3.08-7.13 | Marion Musiol |
| Alison Abdullah | Amanda Stephen | 4.01-5.13 | Katie Okwuazu |
| Stephanie Hapakuka | Jolene Purdy | 4.01-5.13 | Jenny Maria Meyer |
| Ouija | Rosal Colon | 4.01-5.13 | Laura Landauer |
| Ramona "Pidge" Contreras | Miriam Morales | 4.01-5.13 | Josefin Hagen |
| Alana Dwight | Shannon Esper | 4.01-6.12 | Christina Wöllner |
| Desi Piscatella | Brad William Henke | 4.01-6.01 | Tilo Schmitz |
| Kasey Sanken | Kelly Karbacz | 4.02-5.13, 7.13 | Julia Blankenburg |
| "Zirconia" Cabrera | Daniella De Jesús | 4.03-7.13 | Katja Schmitz |
| Artesian McCullough | Emily Tarver | 4.03-7.13 | Katrin Jaehne |
| Lee Dixon | Mike Houston | 4.03-6.12 | |
| Thomas Humphrey | Michael Torpey | 4.03-5.13 | |
| Michelle Carreras | Arianda Fernandez | 4.04-5.13 | Anna Amalie Blomeyer |
| B. Stratman | Evan Hall | 4.05-5.13 | Christoph Drobig |
| Helen "Skinhead Helen" Van Maele | Francesca Curran | 4.06-5.13 | Linda Stelzner |
| Brandy Epps | Asia Kate Dillon | 4.06-5.13 | Denise Kanty |
| Josh | John Palladino | 4.11-5.13 | Adam Nümm |
| Adarsh | Gerrard Lobo | 5.02-5.13 | Armin Schlagwein |
| Nita Reddy | Gita Reddy | 5.04-5.13 | Traudel Sparrowhawk |
| Herrmann | Jason Altman | 5.13-6.12 | Stefan Bergel |
| Natoli | Josh Green | 5.13-6.01 | |
| Garza | Alex Esola | 6.01 | |
| Madison "Badison" Murphy | Amanda Fuller | 6.01–7.03 | Bettina von Nordhausen |
| Tamika Ward | Susan Heyward | 6.01-7.13 | Daniela Grubert |
| Alvarez | Nicholas Webber | 6.01–6.12 | Matthias Scherwenikas |
| Stefanovic | Josh Segarra | 6.02–6.12 | Daniel Montoya |
| Beth Hoefler | Finnerty Steeves | 6.02–6.12 | Laura Preiss |
| Daddy | Vicci Martinez | 6.02–7.01 | Ana Purwa |
| Carol Denning | Henny Russell | 6.02-6.13 | Cornelia Waibel |
| Barbara "Barb" Denning | Mackenzie Phillips | 6.02-6.13 | Anna Dramski |
| Hellman | Greg Vrotsos | 6.02-7.13 | Paul Matzke |
| Ginger | Shawna Hamic | 6.01-6.13 | Johanna M. Schmidt |
| Jarod Young | Brandon Wellington | 6.02-7.13 | |
| Raquel "Creech" Munoz | Besanya Santiago | 6.02-6.13 | Antje Härle |
| Rick hopper | Hunter Emery | 6.02-6.13 | Nils Nelleßen |
Remarks:
production
In July 2011, it was announced that Lionsgate Television and Netflix were negotiating a serial version of Piper Kerman's autobiographical book Orange Is the New Black . The script idea comes from Weeds inventor Jenji Kohan . Netflix funded a 13-part web series . After an audition in August 2012, Taylor Schilling as the main character and Jason Biggs as her fiancé were the first to join the series. Laura Prepon and Yael Stone followed shortly afterwards . The series is produced by Jenji Kohan and Liz Friedman . The first season was produced in Rockland from March 2013 .
Two weeks before release, in June 2013, the series was extended by a second season, which was filmed in New York from late July 2013 to February 2014 . About a month later, Taryn Manning , Danielle Brooks and Uzo Aduba rose to the main cast. Laura Prepon has been downgraded from lead actress to recurring guest star. In April 2014 it was announced that it would not appear in all episodes of the second season of the series due to other dates, but would be completely available again for a third season.
A third season was ordered at the beginning of May 2014. For this season, the roles of Nick Sandow , Selenis Leyva , Adrienne C. Moore , Samira Wiley , Yael Stone and Dascha Polanco will be expanded to lead roles.
Two months before the premiere of the third season, the series was extended by Netflix for a fourth season. For this, Lea DeLaria and Jackie Cruz were promoted to the main cast. Even before the start of the fourth season, Netflix extended the series by a fifth, sixth and seventh season at the beginning of February 2016, which means that the series will remain on the air until at least 2019.
publication
On July 11, 2013, Netflix released the entire first season, which includes 13 episodes. The release of the entire second season took place on June 6, 2014.
In German-speaking countries, Netflix released the first two seasons of the series on September 16, 2014 for the VoD provider's Germany launch . The episodes can be viewed either in the original sound, with German dubbing or with subtitles. The third season has been available on Netflix in Germany and the USA since June 12, 2015 and the fourth season since June 17, 2016. The fifth season was released on June 9, 2017 in Germany and the USA.
The first season was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on May 13, 2014 and in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2014. In February 2015, Piper Chapman's true story is paperback “Orange is the New Black” among her real ones Name Piper Kerman appeared in Germany.
ZDFneo finally secured the broadcasting rights for German free TV. The series started there on April 20, 2017.
At the end of April 2017, it became known that a hacker had been able to steal the first ten episodes of season five through a security hole in a post-production company. On April 29, 2017, the affected episodes were published online by the hacker after Netflix did not respond to a ransom demand. Since then, the incident has been investigated by US law enforcement agencies, as confirmed by Netflix. Regardless of what happened, the fifth season was released on June 9, 2017 as planned. The release of the seventh and last season took place on July 26, 2019.
Episode list
reception
criticism
Loryn Pörschke from Serienjunkies.de wrote in 2013: “The Orange is the New Black series enchants with strong characters, black humor and a clever story. A real tip not only in the notoriously sparsely populated summer series landscape, which should be given a chance. "
Entertainment Weekly selected the sixth episode of the first season, "WAC Pack", as number 6 in their top 10 best series episodes of 2013.
The first season of the series received a Metascore of 79/100 on Metacritic based on 32 reviews, while the second season is listed on Metacritic with a Metascore of 89/100.
Awards and nominations
2014:
- Best Comedy Series - Orange Is the New Black - won
- Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Kate Mulgrew - won
- Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Laverne Cox - nominated
- Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series - Uzo Aduba - won
- Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama - Taylor Schilling - nominated
- Outstanding Comedy Series - Orange Is the New Black - won
- Best Song Written for Visual Media - Regina Spektor - "You've Got Time" - nominated
- Outstanding Comedy Series - Orange Is the New Black - nominated
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Taylor Schilling - nominated
- Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Kate Mulgrew - nominated
- Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series - Uzo Aduba - won
- Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series - Laverne Cox - nominated
- Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series - Natasha Lyonne - nominated
- Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series - Jodie Foster - nominated
- Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series - Liz Friedman & Jenji Kohan - nominated
- Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series - Jennifer Euston - won
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series - William Turro - won
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series - Shannon Mitchell - nominated
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series - Michael S. Stern - nominated
- Favorite Streaming Series - Orange Is the New Black - won
- Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy - Orange Is the New Black - won
- Best Cast - Television Series - Orange Is the New Black - won
- Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy - Taylor Schilling - won
- Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries, or Television Film - Laura Prepon - won
- Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries, or Television Film - Uzo Aduba - nominated
- Program of the Year - Orange Is the New Black - nominated
- Outstanding New Program - Orange Is the New Black - won
- Best Comedy Series - Orange Is the New Black - nominated
- Best New Series - Orange Is the New Black - nominated
- Best Episodic Comedy - Liz Friedman & Jenji Kohan - nominated
- Best Episodic Comedy - Sian Heder - nominated
- Best Cast Chemistry - TV series - Orange Is the New Black - nominated
- Bingeworthy TV series - Orange Is the New Black - won
- Breakthrough Actress - Danielle Brooks - won
- We Love to Hate You - Pablo Schreiber - won
2015:
- 41th Annual People's Choice Awards:
- Favorite TV Dramedy - Orange Is the New Black - won
- Best Musical or Comedy Series - Orange Is the New Black - nominated
- Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series - Taylor Schilling - nominated
- 26th Producers Guild of America Awards:
- Best Episodic Comedy - Mark A. Burley, Sara Hess, Jenji Kohan, Gary Lennon, Neri Tannenbaum, Michael Trim, Lisa I. Vinnecour - nominated
- 67th Writers Guild of America Awards:
- Best Comedy Series - Orange Is the New Black - nominated
- Best Episodic Comedy - Nick Jones - nominated
- Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy - Orange Is the New Black - nominated
- Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy - Taylor Schilling - nominated
- Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film - Uzo Aduba - nominated
- Outstanding Drama Series - Orange Is the New Black - nominated
2017:
- Best Acting Company - Comedy - Orange Is the New Black - won
- Nominated for Best Actress in a Television Series - Comedy - Uzo Aduba
- #Series - Orange Is the New Black - nominated
Web links
- Orange Is the New Black in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the series on Netflix
- Official website of the series on ZDF
- Media library at funk
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Orange Is the New Black. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Nellie Andreeva: Netflix Eyeing Second Original Series - Comedy From 'Weeds' Creator Jenji Kohan . In: deadline.com . July 22, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Nellie Andreeva: Netflix, Lionsgate TV Closing Deal For Jenji Kohan's 'Orange Is The New Black' Comedy . In: deadline.com . November 11, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Nellie Andreeva: Taylor Schilling To Star In Jenji Kohan's Netflix Series 'Orange Is The New Black' . In: deadline.com . August 30, 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Leslie Goldberg: Jason Biggs to co-star in Netflix's 'Orange Is the New Black' (Exclusive) . In: hollywoodreporter.com . September 12, 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
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- ↑ Chris Serico: Netflix series 'Orange is the New Black' filming in Rockland . In: brooklyn.news12.com . March 7, 2013. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved on September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Nellie Andreeva: Netflix Renews 'Orange Is The New Black' For Second Season . In: deadline.com . June 27, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Billy Nilles: 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 2: Laura Prepon will only return for one episode . In: blog.zap2it.com . September 11, 2013. Archived from the original on September 15, 2013. Retrieved on September 13, 2013.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Orange Is the New Black: Supporting actress promoted to the main cast . In: Serienjunkies.de . July 19, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Riema Al-Khatib: Orange Is the New Black: A Promotion and Guest Role for Season 2 . In: Serienjunkies.de . August 6, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Riema Al-Khatib: Orange is the New Black: Uzo Aduba promoted to leading actress . In: Serienjunkies.de . August 13, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Riema Al-Khatib: Orange Is the New Black: Laura Prepon is only a supporting actress . In: Serienjunkies.de . August 15, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
- ↑ Thomas Zimmer: Orange is the New Black: Sneak Peak on season 2 . In: Serienjunkies.de . April 24, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
- ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Orange is the New Black: Netflix orders 3rd season . May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
- ↑ Laura Prepon : It's official !! Season 3 !! #oitnb #alexvause #backtothebighouse . In: TV by the Numbers date = 2014-05-05 . Retrieved May 5, 2014.
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