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Orange Is the New Black Almost Ended Very Differently...
https://www.eonline.com/news/1060797/orange-is-the-new-black-almost-ended-very-differentlyI know that most OPs today are focused - and rightly so - on last night's Democratic debate. But this OP has a tangential relationship to current US prison-ICE-related actions. It certainly has a relationship to the treatment of incarcerated women.
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OITNB recently dropped its seventh and final season on the streaming platform. The conclusion, which was a smattering of happy endings, deaths, releases from prison and heartache, was almost very different. In the series, Taylor Schilling plays Piper Chapman, a character loosely based on Kerman. At one point, she toys with writing a memoir, but Judy King (Blair Brown), a Martha Stewart-esque character, beat her to market. The show almost ended with a big wink to the origins of the Emmy-winning series.
"Since season one, the joke ending that would come up occasionally was to get super meta and cast an actress to be Jenji who goes into Netflix and pitches a show!" Herrmann said.
"Piper having a meeting and then selling the show and having her watch someone playing her. We toyed with it. I was at dinner and joking about it and my 13-year-old son was like, ‘No. You cannot do that,'" Kohan said.
"That made it all seem fictionalized and a joke, and the show deserves more than that," Herrmann concluded.
OITNB recently dropped its seventh and final season on the streaming platform. The conclusion, which was a smattering of happy endings, deaths, releases from prison and heartache, was almost very different. In the series, Taylor Schilling plays Piper Chapman, a character loosely based on Kerman. At one point, she toys with writing a memoir, but Judy King (Blair Brown), a Martha Stewart-esque character, beat her to market. The show almost ended with a big wink to the origins of the Emmy-winning series.
"Since season one, the joke ending that would come up occasionally was to get super meta and cast an actress to be Jenji who goes into Netflix and pitches a show!" Herrmann said.
"Piper having a meeting and then selling the show and having her watch someone playing her. We toyed with it. I was at dinner and joking about it and my 13-year-old son was like, ‘No. You cannot do that,'" Kohan said.
"That made it all seem fictionalized and a joke, and the show deserves more than that," Herrmann concluded.
It took me awhile to warm up to this Netflix series and some seasons were, IMO, much better than others, especially when the series focus shifted to characters/situations other than the life and loves of "Piper Chapman." In its quirky way, however, it is as much of of a social commentary as was one of the absolute best series ever, IMO, "The Wire."
I am posting this today because I finished watching the last - and final - series (of 7) last night. If you don't have Netflix, please view this series with someone who does. Please also watch the whole series run.
The final series, while there are some redeeming moments if one has made the journey with the characters, is absolutely devastating. It is especially devastating when we know what is happening with the current sweep-ups, separation of families and incarceration of immigrants already in the US - even though it doesn't even deal with what is happening for those who are seeking asylum at the border.
What have we become?
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para, which doesn't really give much away, it only tells how the series did NOT end. That's why I deliberately chose that article. 
But just be sure to see it! 