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How are y'all feeling excited so excited I still get it's been a long time, but we're less than a week away from the premiere of The Final Season or just the final season being put out there on Netflix. Yeah, it's sad. It's sad. It's the end of an era. Yeah. I mean this like not only changed like Netflix, but so many of the theories that are on television content right now. It's like we're in different times exactly. Thank you all so much for joining us. We are going to be talking all things or just new black the entire season. We wanted to have a special episode to kind of talk about the season. There's so much around it and everything. So we are going to be your source for all things Orange is the New Black. I'm your host. April was enhanced joined by my lovely co-host. We have Brianna. Hi guys Francesca, and lastly. Hey, what's up y'all there so much to talk about obviously with this upcoming season, but I kind of wanted to start off with our viewers especially for Briana because she's a new she's new to our panel which were so excited and welcome. Yeah. Yes, just kind of about our relationships with Orange is the New Black your thoughts your feelings when you started watching it things like that. Well, I was really attracted to Orange is the New Black because I'm from DC Chocolate City, you know, and so, you know, we have our own Strife with the justice system and things of that nature. So Orange is the New Black was kind of a way for me. To kind of connect and from the outside view but it gives it also like a comedic relief and so you don't have that in real life, right? So being able to have an outlet like this and connect in a way but still covers such serious topics really attracted me to the show. So I'm hooked love it. What about you Francesca? I started watching first season with the rest of us via Twitter you guys ever watch shows and like I live tweet or like how does that work? Well, like just it's like everyone's like a big slumber party. Everyone's on their own couch. And you're just yeah you were watching it on anyway, so, you know again this was one of the biggest like things that Netflix had done in the starting of like the originals and stuff like that. So I got hooked then and then my mom comes to visit every summer and we usually watch it together. And then last last season I jumped on with y'all. Yeah. same started watching and season one and it was you know, one of those things where whenever there's a new show out and everyone's excited and you know, everyone's buzzing about it you watch and it really wasn't a show I was expecting to like because you had a really didn't know what it was at first glance, you know, it was the story of like, you know, this, you know kind of privileged woman and she's going into this like system and you know, I was just like, I don't know but then it's just so much more than what it seemed on the surface like it like gave a face to so many stories that don't don't normally get shared and they did it with humor and so much care with the stories and got hooked and six seven seasons later. I started a little bit later than everyone and now when I say I started a little bit later, I think I started season 2 or ha ha but mainly just because I didn't have a Netflix password. He was fine with people sharing just in case anyone's watching this and they allow it so correctly. I it's like from the first episode that I watched obviously got hooked mainly just because of the different stories like you see everything every color every demographic represented in a great way to wear, you know, bad things happen good things happen and they do it just like you said with a little bit of comedic relief. We definitely have our moments where it's just Is nothing funny but that also is part of what makes the show great that they kind of have that scene and then go into another scene where people are laughing and I don't think that still even another show has done it as well. As Orange is the New Black because I mean obviously it's still on the air for a reason going into the final season. There's so much kind of going on with you know, we let less left off last season where they're kind of wrapping up everything that happened with the riots and I didn't even realize At that, you know, we had the riot for a couple of seasons are season and then all of last season was really just wrapping that up and kind of show in the consequences, but I did read a lot that said this next season is going to do kind of the same because there's still so much untouched. I watched the last two episodes of season 6 before we came here today just think it a little refresher and it's still so raw, especially the tasty stuff for me. Anyway. Yeah, just kind of seeing, you know, still one of my favorites Seems probably throughout the show of the verdict and we know that it was a guilty verdict for her. Obviously. I was so hard to watch. Yeah, but she and they did it in a way where I think we all talked about it last season how we were expecting, you know, the judge to be like guilty or not guilty, but they did it in that silent and all you see is just the raw emotion on her face. So I'm definitely excited to kind of see how that plays into the next season as one of the strengths of this show is that it took characters that might have just been Reporting minor characters are any other show and they flush them out. They built them and tasty was just like she wasn't one of the main characters in the first I would say first one or two seasons. She was just there and you slowly like build someone up to someone we really care about and like we're invested and invested in her story and seeing her get Justice and this show was able to take all of these stories because you think of like prisoners right women in prison, you know, you think of like, oh, you know when women murder or like these True Crimes it's Like no, these are just sometimes regular women who made mistakes just like, you know with men prisoners but like it was able to share that like, you know, it someone could have easily gone down this path hadn't you know X Y and Z not happened in their life. And so tasty is a great example of like, you know, she was such a young like smart bright young woman, you know, we saw that in all of her flashbacks in her stories and she's just got a big personality. She's articulate and then all of a sudden you just see like all these things that happened to her in life and you know when she had the friend who was a prisoner or not for her prison guard They ended up on different sides of you know, the scope there and that's what the show just like does. So well is weaving these stories and like we care and giving us these gut-punch moments that were just like, oh my gosh, what's going to happen? Yeah. Yeah, I think also being able to see their lives before they went to prison and that it helps us connect with them on a more personal level level. So we have more Sympathy for the characters versus if we were just on the outside watching some woman. We didn't know on trial. While she's a black woman. She's in prison already. Obviously, she's a criminal she must be guilty as easy to draw that conclusion. Yeah, but because we see all the entire Diamond Dynamic and it's just really unfortunate to see it play out like that for tasty, but I low-key felt like she was going to get a guilty verdict. Anyway, I did to only because when we were watching I tried to take myself out of it and I was like, okay, let me look at the facts that she's It with and this I think is another thing that's going to be a big topic or a hope is going to be a big Topic in season 7 is the fact of the what I call the Cindy Factor. This Cindy is the one who, you know, testify gave false testimony against her and that's her best friend. So clearly they're going to be back in prison for a very long time together as far as you know what we know currently so I kind of hope they address that but I thought the same thing just with when you look at the fat when you have this person saying I saw this this person did this So that's what a jury's going to go off of and it's so not fair that someone was even placed in that situation in the first place. Right? And that's what this show does. Well, they don't sugarcoat something to say like, oh, I love you love tasty. She's your favorite, you know your great viewer, they're going to give you like, okay what's actually going to happen or what would we think what actually happens and real life, but that's I mean the best friend factor to me. Maybe that's just me being like a little I don't know not salt. I want to say that what we're talking about in jail show because they always talk about being like so hard whatever but I really do hope that they talked about that a lot because we've seen these relationships throughout the show whether they be, you know, obviously Piper and Alex and whatever but tasty and Cindy have been, you know, some of our favorites from the very beginning of so I definitely hope that they address that yeah some of our the other, you know, one of the big things that happened in the season 6 finale was Piper getting released kind of on a Cavity because you know baddest in was going after her for this whatever. What do y'all kind of hope we're going to see from her in the season Francesca. What do you think? We're going to see her? Can I say based on the preview that we saw? Yeah. Well, I There You Go trailer. I do like that they show in the trailer like her trying to get back into work and how difficult it is to get back into work because I think you know Supposed to be rehabilitating you got but often it just creates this cycle of continuous prison basically, right? So I'm excited to see that we're going to see a different side of the whole prison system, especially for women and you know, I think in general especially right now in all this like me to and feminist movements like women wanting equality in the workplace and stuff like that is so high right now and then to take it from her as Being just released from prison and she's struggling. So I'm really excited to see ya story. And in the trailer you also see like, you know Pipers taking a pee test and you know having to like, you know face these rules and she gets asked are you even allowed to hold a weapon and it's just sort of introducing the idea or you know further explaining that like just because you're out of jail doesn't mean you're not a prisoner anymore. Like, you know, you're on parole you still have rules regulations curfew probably can't drink probably can't be out by a certain time. So it's like Life is so restrictive and we're probably going to see that with Piper and just showing how like it just it doesn't just cause you're out doesn't mean you're completely free of any case, you know thing thats hanging over you. Yeah, and that definitely drives you insane wait, you had all those limitations. I'm really nervous for her to not have Alex with her because Alex was always the one to say Piper relax. It's not that serious. Are you sure you want to pick that fight and Piper is so emotionally driven. Even that the sometimes the logic is out the window. Yeah, and then Alex brought that logic and and so I'm kind of nervous with this transition with her life outside because she doesn't have that balance anymore. How is she going to now get into it? That's a really good point especially because when we saw her at the beginning of the series she was with Larry who was also he seemed like kind of like a level-headed guy. You're right. She's very emotional as far as in her choices and you know doesn't always think things through and I do I mean She's going to be a lost puppy. Yeah, it's really absolutely when the last time that she was out was like you just said with Larry having this like Soap Company happen. That's what I'm I'm interested to see kind of most with her storyline. Anyway is actually the professional aspect because you and we've addressed it on the show before just like when tasty was really right tasty was released at one point. Yeah, right and then she came back a lot of people say that it's easier once you have, you know certain things on your record to just be in prison because you can't get a job that's going to make any sort of like actual living wage. A lot of times. You have to like be in a special position to meet someone or to get the opportunity that someone is going to overlook what you've been through because they're not going to necessarily they're probably out of just you know, professional reasons not going to ask you what your charges they're just going to see felon, but I'm going to be like, oh she was you know, Then got caught like selling some weed and then she was in jail because of this this this is this that happened after that so it's very situational. So I kind of the most interested to see how they handle that situation with her. Obviously. I'm excited to see what is going on with her and Alex. I was kind of like over that relationship, but then they moved back in with the wedding episode of season 6 and I I read in a lot of articles that that's going to be a big thing with their storyline. I don't have I don't think they'll just like focus on it and that's going to be the only thing that we see happen with the two of them. But I did read that you kind of we're going to see the ups and downs that go with dating or being married to someone in prison. Yeah, what does things like a difficult thing? Yeah, two things with Piper. So I obviously they deviated from the real life because I think at some point where we'll see her starting to write a book. Man, you know be like, let me Chronicle my time in jail, which is you know, what this whole series is based on which is the original book story. But you know in real life, you know, if I'm correct she stayed with her Larry and so they deviated from that and this series so I'm just wondering like how close to the real life Piper they're going to be with the story. So that'll be kind of interested in seeing justice. But also like I don't want to see too much of hyper the season like, you know, I got like my favorite character and there's so many other loose ends that are happening with so many of the other Actors we care about that. I'm hoping that like I don't I mean she hasn't been for the last couple of Seasons. I don't want her to be like in the spotlight. I'd want to see what's happening with some of our other girls. Yeah, when one character that I really want to see their stories Blanca. Yeah. Yeah, especially just I feel like orange always has mirrored politically what's going on outside of the show. So I really appreciate the writers for doing that and you know, we see the last episode Blanca gets taken to get deported. Yeah, so We saw her in the trailer. So I'm feel like we got some good good things, but I really want to see how that plays out. Just especially in this climate. So I definitely it's what they've always done. The best is giving us the real life stuff that's actually happening right now. And I think she's going to get probably more time than she has in any season because with everything that's going on at that border in actual real life. I think it could be a situation that we're going to enjoy seeing but could also be yeah a heartbreaking thing which they've done. Well, they like the show, bro. Your heart but then you know the make you laugh pillow underneath. Yeah. Yeah. She's a perfect example of again another character. Who when we first started the series she was a background character. Yeah. It was just a crazy woman in this doll talking to the devil and turned into you know, a fully-realized woman and you know, we see her relationship with her know if he's our husband or her boyfriend but like, you know when you saw him like waiting for her and he doesn't come out like I was alone. I like broke my heart, but you know, she's a fighter. She's been like one of Toughest women on the show on the series. So I feel like you know, I think she's got a fight ahead of her but she's gonna face it head-on. So I'm excited to see that. Yeah agreed. I'm definitely excited for Maria Gloria, you know, all of those characters that we have since the beginning. I want them to like get a happy ending. Yeah kind of what I'm most curious of all like who gets a happy ending. I was reading this Variety article, which we actually have the cover of that will show di all this with youso dubas on the the cover along with Gingy Cohen and Piper Kerman and they're just talking about what this show has done for Netflix in general and kind of the Happy Endings that we hope they'll all get but they definitely you know, also kind of amazing that that we're not getting that right hot ladies. Well this show launched so many careers and stars like, you know, they it's become such a launch for you know, so many women the actress who plays who say, you know now on, you know, the handmaid's tale and Saw Laverne Cox get celebrated so much, you know being a transgender woman and fatah solely on Russian dolls. So that's exciting. Yeah, the kind of the purpose of the article is to talk about what Orange is the New Black did for Netflix because just like me, you know where I didn't start watching at first because I didn't know what a Netflix original program was look at where it is now. And so I think that's one of the best things to celebrate about this show is just what it has done for Netflix the most watched original programming on Netflix which is yeah a feat in itself. Yeah and not just Netflix. There's a Time article about how it really ushered in the era of like Embrace dreaming like Queer storylines on what is it is like, you know transparent or you know, a lot of relationships on the handmade Stellar on other shows that like sort of embrace, you know these storylines and you know, even more celebrities like our culture has since shifted, you know, you have more women saying, you know Miley Demi thing. I'm a queer. On it and it's like it's celebrated its more in the Forefront and I think seeing these relationships, you know on such a popular show that was a claimed that people were into it changed. A lot of people's perspectives totally agree. Yeah, before we wrap up we'd love to show you a little clip that Orange is the New Black or at least it's just basically some of our favorite characters talking about their own characters in 20 seconds. So take a look. Where do I begin? Okay, Lorna Morello in 30 seconds. On the inside. She starts out light in prison. She's awesome Galina red reznikov. She's undaunted. She's bloodied but unbowed you don't wanna get married to me. I'll kill you. I'll kill you but it helped to kick dope and it was really the mother. She never had. She's wonderful in the kitchen, which is wonderful as a sort of good mother. She's wonderful. There's a real mother you have a baby with me. Yes. Oh, it's like and then she make some real changes. Impact because of who stays dead. She definitely had many a romance issues. I'm looking at you Lorna Morello crazy, you know, I'm completely safe with his guitar his death which we already know what really happened is he's got a lot to deal with but you won't be disappointed that part when she says y'all won't be disappointed. I'm like, I know I know I'm so excited y'all. We you know have talked about this show for So long, I can't believe it's actually wrapping up the like crazy dude quick predictions. Like what's going to happen this season? What do things that happen with red red? Oh gosh. I don't read she's in jail for forever Natasha. Um, I don't know if I'm like, it's too difficult. I think that some people are going to get out. I do think that we'll see some, you know stuff that happened. I hope they'll do a flash-forward. I guess I should say of like some people that are out. As everyone as of right now has a very long sentence left. So I don't think we're going to see like these, you know, these people the process of them getting out like over 10 years and a lot of people have the life sentences. So I hope we do see kind of a flash board and I think we will yeah, I hope so too. What's really cool about the trailer is that you don't really see them fighting amongst themselves anymore the like, you know, it seems like they're going to maybe focus on fighting the system and whatever obstacles and be together and like be United which is kind of exciting and encouraging. I hope it's that that and not more of a feeling of feeling of defeat especially with tasty. So I mean, that's a great guy. It's a look at it. Sometimes I'm just like oh or maybe it's a little yeah or negative, but I would love to see that. Yeah, I would like to see done Dayanara do better just like change and we're positive way, but it's not your mom's not be high. Yeah. I would like to see Dad not behind ya. So me too. Well, thank y'all so much. 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Hosts Lesley Carroll, April Whisenhant, Francesca Dugan, and Breanna Chienne discuss their thought, predictions and wants for season 7 or Orange is the New Black ! ABOUT ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK Orange is the New Black comes from "Weeds" creator Jenji Kohan about a women’s prison drama with comedy that takes no prisoners. Based on the acclaimed memoir of the same name by Piper Kerman, the series is about engaged Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose decade-old relationship with drug-runner Alex results in her arrest and year-long detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper must trade her comfortable New York life with fiancé Larry, for an orange prison jumpsuit and a baffling prison culture where she is forced to question everything she believes about herself and the world at large. As she struggles to adjust to her new reality, she finds unexpected laughter, tears, conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric and outspoken group of inmates. 