After binge watching all of Friday-released season two within a day, I couldn't recommend all of you with a little more self-control than myself, anything other than Netflix original show Orange Is The New Black.
If you've watched the first season already, and for some unbeknownst reason to me, haven't started the second yet, then I wholeheartedly give you permission to start on the new series immediately. You can thank me later! If you haven't however, you're gonna need a little encouragement. I guarantee you though, once you're a few episodes in, you'll wonder why it took you so long to check it out.
Based on the real-life memoirs of author Piper Kerman, the show centres around Piper Chapman, a well-to-do, slightly stuck-up woman who gets sent to prison after she is named as being associated with an international drug-smuggling crime.
Dealing with prison life and meeting some more-than unique characters along the way, Chapman doesn't just have to keep herself sane whilst put away, she also has to try and maintain her relationship with fiancé Larry on the outside. A task made even harder when she realises that one of her fellow inmates is the woman who put her in there; her ex-girlfriend, Alex.
The first season juggled a perfect mix of comedy and drama, making you chuckle and cringe awkwardly one minute and gasping with surprise the next. And season two built so well on each and every storyline that you really feel like you know every in and out of the characters' lives.
The characters are so fresh and the story lines so complex and so original that we really haven't seen a group of women characters like this since, well, ever. It's aim isn't to make the women soft... to compromise them... to make them fall into the background. This show is all about ALL different kinds of women and how they cope with the dramas of love, life and lock-up!
Netflix is really paving the way for new kinds of television, not just in the way we watch programmes (as it uploads every episode of a season all in one go encouraging viewers to watch several episodes at a time, elimating the need to wait a week as the season progresses), but in the content they are producing, and it is truly impressive and makes the online streaming service a force to be reckoned with.
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