orange is the new black
American TV drama. |
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Created by: Jenji Kohan
Based On: Orange is the new black: My year in a women's prison, by Piper Kerman Stars: Taylor Schilling [Piper Chapman] Laura Prepon [Alex Vause] Michael. J. Harney [Sam Healy] Michelle Hurst [Miss Claudette Pelage] Kate Mulgrew [Red] Jason Biggs [Larry Bloom] No of seasons: 4 No. of episodes: 52 Production Companies: Lionsgate Television/Tilted Productions. Distributor: Netflix Original Network: Netflix Original Release Date: 11th July 2013 Opening theme: 'you've got time' |
The series revolves around Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a woman in her 30s living in New York City who is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary, a minimum-security Woman's Federal prison (initially operated by the "Federal Department of Corrections", a fictional version of the Federal Bureau of prisons, and later acquired by MCC, a private prison company) in upstate New York Piper had been convicted of transporting a suitcase full of drug money for her girlfriend Alex Vause (Laura Prepon), an international drug smuggler. The offense had occurred 10 years prior to the start of the series and in that time Piper had moved on to a quiet, law-abiding life among New York's upper middle class. Her sudden and unexpected indictment severely disrupts her relationships with her fiancé, family and friends.
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