Orange is the new Black

This is a Netflix original series, and I think it’s excellent.

Piper Chapman is a lovely and very girly, well-educated, 30-something living with her fiance Larry. She’s portrayed as the least credible criminal in the world, and yet the show opens with her preparing to spend a year in prison.

It turns out that in her early 20s she had a lesbian (yes that’s right Toke, you need to get Netflix ASAP) relationship with Alex Vos who was an international drug smuggler. She had asked Piper to act as a drug mule a few times, and despite never having been caught at the time, the authorities somehow got to hear that Piper was involved.

From there you follow Piper as she tries to adjust to prison life, surrounded by lots of lesbians and some fantastic characters.

I think what gives the show something different, is that it draws the incidental characters really well. Despite being on the periphery of the story, the writers give them back stories and you get flashbacks to the convicts’ lives leading up to prison.

It’s witty, funny and touching (well I find myself touching…myself).

I’d highly recommend it.

I’ve enjoyed quite a bit of the Netflix original content, but I haven’t checked this out yet. I’m prison weary, but this sounds like the drama isn’t boxed in.

As for your animation, calm down, Bletch.

Have a nice ruck of Bea.

I’ll see your Bea, and raise you a Boo (Big Boo).

Do you think your prison-weariness is a Liverpool thing or a PCBH thing?

As for the animation, trust me I could have picked something much more interesting.

_A_s for the prurient tone of my post, I should clear up that I appreciate the lesbian scenes between Piper and Alex so much, because I believe that both actors are straight.

I marvel at their ability to faithfully portray lesbian activity.

Sometimes I marvel time and time again - rewinding so much that I’ve caused the tape to get wrapped round the Netflix heads (if you know what I mean).

Also BT can stick their “Fair use” policy up their own proxy server.

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I think my main source of prison weariness is with all of the tropes that normally accommodate them. Rows with screws, riots, shankings, bummings, cruelty, innocent people wrongly clanked up and let’s not forget the old classic, the jailbreak. There’s only so much you can do in the format.

I’m glad to see that your motives were pure when referencing all of the lesbian activity. All about the acting range. I’m reminded of how many pundits thought Koeman should be manager of the season based on the situation he inherited. This is exactly like that, bletch.

And not pervy at all*

*More than anything else, it is an excellent excuse that I am pilfering for future use.

In like the first scene the piper bird was in the shower + we were looking at her boobs + i was thinking this is prob thinking this is the type of show that i like, so i watched a bunch more + there wasn’t any more scenes of the piper bird in the shower, but there was one scene where the porntache man groped her up in metalwork class. I don’t know if it was good show overall, i mostly watched it on fast forward looking for scenes of the piper bird in the shower, i would prob rate it C- at best

Sounds like another TV show with gratuitous female nudity that contributes nada to the plot.

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Muff diving in the chapel. What’s not to like? winky.

what other shows do u know like that pls?

Sounds like you’re making assumptions Lou. Read Bear’s analysis, he gave it C- because the nudity isn’t everywhere and in your face.

The main character Piper is shown engaging in lesbian activity to paint the contrast between her current self, and her former self.

You’re confronted by it because you know the demure woman she’s become, and you’re aware just how devoted she is to her boyfriend. It’s a plot device without which the story would suffer.

Plus she’s got great tits.

Sounds like you’re making assumptions Lou. Read Bear’s analysis, he gave it C- because the nudity isn’t everywhere and in your face. The main character Piper is shown engaging in lesbian activity to paint the contrast between her current self, and her former self. You’re confronted by it because you know the demure woman she’s become, and you’re aware just how devoted she is to her boyfriend. It’s a plot device without which the story would suffer. Plus she’s got great tits.

Ha. I’m not critiquing the lesbian scenes. I’m referencing the first scene involving her in the shower and sight of her boobs. Both straight and lesbian women shower, and both have boobs. Therefore, starting with that scene had no relevance to the plot other than get a few more male viewers dribbling.

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PS. Is that your real pic, Bletch?

yeah that is true bletch they prob tried their best, but the nudity wasn’t really gratuitous enough and i also found it unrealistic cos most of the birds in it weren’t even the sort of birds that i would be that interested in seeing naked, and in real life i rarely see birds that i wouldn’t be interested in seeing naked. I mean, I see them, I just don’t give them speaking parts. That is why we had to mark it down.

Do you watch many movies coxford lou?

Do you watch many movies coxford lou?

LOL. I’m not sure which it is! Trainspotting?

Do you watch many movies coxford lou?

No Lou, as The Bear is suggesting, it’s not me.

lol that is such a girl post!

lol that is such a girl post!

Oh c’mon, that’s not fair!!

lol that is such a girl post!

lol that is such a girl post!

Fuck off you cunt!!

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Sounds like you’re making assumptions Lou. Read Bear’s analysis, he gave it C- because the nudity isn’t everywhere and in your face. The main character Piper is shown engaging in lesbian activity to paint the contrast between her current self, and her former self. You’re confronted by it because you know the demure woman she’s become, and you’re aware just how devoted she is to her boyfriend. It’s a plot device without which the story would suffer. Plus she’s got great tits.

Ha. I’m not critiquing the lesbian scenes. I’m referencing the first scene involving her in the shower and sight of her boobs. Both straight and lesbian women shower, and both have boobs. Therefore, starting with that scene had no relevance to the plot other than get a few more male viewers dribbling.

You might be right about the opening scene Lou, but as Bear points out, the rest of the nudity largely involves the sort of woman that, perhaps a shallow but maturbatorily frustrated Bear might not even bother “having a thick piss” over.

That said, as Bear didn’t make it to season 2, he didn’t see Brook Soso. Now that is gratuitous use of sexual imagery. It’s disgraceful, and I nearly stopped watching.

I actually watch the series with Mrs Bletch, and if she felt that the nudity or sex scenes were out of place, I’m sure she’d tell me…

…to put my chap away.