Orange Is The New Black

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Orange is the New Black: season two, episode one

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 5th June 2014

Netflix's best original show is back, and for a programme about women in stasis, it doesn't half know how to throw everything up in the air. (Spoilers follow.)

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The eight best things Jason Biggs said at an Orange is the New Black Q&A

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 3rd June 2014

Last week I went to a screening of Orange is the New Black season two's first episode. It was predictably great, as I'll outline in a review soon once I've deciphered the notes I made on a torn-up bit of an Ibuprofen packet having forgotten to bring a notepad. #journalism But the real joy of it was the Q&A featuring Jason Biggs.

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Orange is the New Black: season one

TV Review | Ed Williamson | 7th August 2013

Women's prison fiction has a proud tradition of providing jollies for the adolescent male. But Orange is the New Black, Netflix's latest original series, missteps horrifically in its positive depiction of women as rounded characters whose concerns extend further than lezzing each other off in the shower.

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