Jinji Kohan Cooks Up Another Winner with 'Orange.."

There have been a lot of great ensemble casts over the years, from the Sopranos, to Deadwood to Frasier and Weeds. One season in, and the cast they've assembled for 'Orange Is The New Black"
might be the most talented of them all. The show, about a WASP-ish 30 year-old girl who gets sentenced to prsion for being a drug mule, gives the audience a look at female prison life that clearly side-steps all the expected stereotypes, and delivers incredibly well-rounded characters, far more fleshed-out than those on her previous show, "Weeds." Since we, the audience, are all wonderful people, we can try to look down on these ladies, but through the use of well-timed flashbacks, we learn why each inmate is there, and it makes us see that we're all just one bad decision away from joining them.
 The lead character is both beguiling and bewildering. Taylor Schilling plays Piper Chapman, who is in the slam for 15 months, and I figure Kohan will have her do something,....... ill-advised, if the show runs more than 3 seasons, as I suspect it will. How else will she stay? The show is so good, I hope she murders someone!

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