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“In the way the viewer encountered, it was like little that preceded it. In years to come, when new viewers sit down with this show for the first time, they’ll be able to look forward to 91 hours of Orange, which took six years to make-but is all set within the same 18 months or so of Piper’s journey through the prison system.Īs the New York Times’ critic James Poniewozik observes in a fantastic essay about the series, Orange is the New Black was the first Netflix series to demonstrate what a streaming platform could do.

But I’ve often wondered if Spektor isn’t directing her words at the audience, too-an audience settling in to watch a 13-hour season of television during the height of summer. Serving time, of course, is what the inmates of Litchfield Penitentiary have been doing for the last seven seasons-ever since lead Piper ( Taylor Schilling) was sentenced to 15 months in federal minimum security prison for helping her ex-girlfriend Alex ( Laura Prepon) smuggle drugs. “You’ve got time,” croons Regina Spektor in the opening credits of Orange Is the New Black.

Orange is the new black season 1 online stream