The Show: Weeds creator Jenji Kohan's latest show is a comic drama set inside a women-only prison, as middle-class drug runner Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) arrives there and has to adjust to the facility's peculiar inmates, not to mention some of the scumbag employees who work there. Why It's Overrated: Orange Is the New Black is certainly an ambitious step up for Kohan, especially considering the huge ensemble cast she has to work with here. It's an entertaining prison series in the vein of HBO's classic Oz, and is frequently touted as one of the jewel's in Netflix's crown as far as their own distributed content goes. The problem with the show is that protagonist Piper is easily the worst and least interesting thing about it despite obviously being front and center: she's annoying as hell and pretty much just a through-point to get to the rest of the colourful inmates. Also, some of the subplots revolving around Piper and her on-off lover Alex (Laura Prepon) are pretty sigh-inducing, even if it normally makes up for this with a shocking twist of some sort. It's a fine show, just not up there with, say, Netflix's true gemstone, House of Cards.
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