Written by Erica Rose Jackson Due to technical difficulties at my normal location for these types of posts, I'm going to share here so that it doesn't become irrelevant, though really it may already have. Netflix dropped the sixth season of Orange is the New Black on July 27th, and it quickly became apparent the the show was back to what we loved about its early years. The riot is over and we have to find out where all of our favorites ended up. The show took a very interesting scene to start the season with Suzanne ‘Crazy Eyes’ (Uzo Aduba) ‘watching TV’ in her cell, but it was different girls from the show in an assortment of different shows, each as hilarious as the last. It was an excellent introduction back to the series and it continued excelling as it went on. From here on, there will be spoilers, you’ve been warned. Episode one gave us some necessary info on what happened as the riot ended. For one, we know Piscatella (Brad William Henke) was shot by his own after the prisoners released him, but those same guards brought his body to the pool and set up the scene as if he’d been killed there. Only Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore) and Suzanne saw this happen and decide (mostly Cindy) to keep it to themselves. For the duration of episode, we find out who is going to turn on who when it comes to responsibility for the riot and deaths. Frieda (Dale Soules) was in max thirty years before and has enemies inside so she chooses to turn on Red (Kate Mulgrew) to guarantee her safety. By the time Red gets her turn to be questioned, she doesn’t even know Piscatella is dead but makes sure not to hold back on how she feels about him, which she has every right to from the state of her scalp. Cindy slips up that T was holding the gun before her, putting Taystee (Danielle Brooks) in the hot seat as Piscatella’s murderer. Piper (Taylor Schilling) spends most of the episode looking for Alex (Laura Prepon). After the dust settles and everyone has a place, we meet some of the new players in this season’s OITNB. Blocks C and D are at war because they are run by two rivaling sister, whose end is actually one of the funniest moment of the season. You have Carol (Henny Russell) who is in charge of the blues in block C and Barb (Mackenzie Phillips) with the Khakis in D. These two are ruthless, but more then you even imagine as the season goes on. They each have their loyal girls who are ready to kill to keep their boss happy. In D, we have Daddy (Vicci Martinez) who takes a quick liking to Daya (Dascha Polanco), the loveable daughter of another prisoner who found love with a guard, turning her into a murder craving junkie by season’s end. Barb’s big girl on campus is Badison, played by Last Man Standing’s Amanda Fuller, and she is truly a monster, even in her back story. Let’s take a quick second to mention our only complaint about this season of OITNB. The backstories of the new characters took away from the show’s lure, distracting from the main tale without enough interesting points to be interesting. Back to the story, Red (once she’s allowed to play with others again) makes friends with Carol because they both hate Frieda. Nicky (Natasha Lyonne), who turned Red in as well, tries to warn her multiple times throughout the season to get away from Carol, but Red learns on her own. Nicky is the only character who is able to see through the temptation of power that Carol and Barb offer to know that they’re just two sisters who don’t really care about the rest of the people there, and C and D wouldn’t even have beef if they weren’t there. In fact, Piper discovers that C and D used to get along well, even having a kickball game which she quickly starts work to reinstate. The kickball game is Piper’s way of making prison better then when she got there, something she wants to accomplish before she gets out since her sentence wasn’t extended. She isn’t the only character with a mission this season with Taystee and Caputo (Nick Sandow) working to find her innocent of the murder of Piscatella. Caputo gets a lot of redemption this season, which the show has been working towards, and we really enjoy seeing him as a man with drive and a purpose. Alex and Piper were able to get ‘prison married’ with the help of Nicky and Lorna (Yael Stone), who is adorably pregnant for this season. Caputo moves forward with his, pretty twisted, relationship with Natalie (Alysia Reiner). Doggett (Taryn Manning) has a lot of fun during her time out with her boyfriend, Coates (James McMenamin) and their friend Dix (Mike Houston). We got to have some really fun scenes with our ladies this season, but the didn’t ease up on the dark either. Season 6 is filled with betrayal, new friendships, prison weddings, possible childbirth, and rivalries like we’ve never seen before. OITNB shines in his sixth year, with the seventh already confirmed, and we are happy with what we’ve binged. We can’t wait to see what comes next because, as always, season 6 ended with a cliffhanger.
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