Orange Is The New Black Essay

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Orange Is the New Black is an original comedy-drama series that is published by Netflix. The show focuses on the story of Piper Chapman, who is sent to Litchfield Prison for fifteen months due to an old crime that she committed in one of her past relationship. Besides the main storyline, the show also presents the stories of other inmates in the prison. The story is based on Piper Kerman’s biographical novel, some of the events in the show actually took place during her prison time. The title is a reference to the orange suit all new prisoner must wear, which represented a new identity and a life change. Orange Is The New Black was created by Jenji Leslie kohan, who is famous for her creations of comedy-dramas. Just like many Jenji’s shows, Orange Is The New Black is humor on the dark side, so if you are eighteen years old and you enjoy shows such as the “Breaking Bad”, then this is a show for you. As a comedy drama, without knowing that it is on the dark side, I expected the show to super funny and…show more content…
The theme song “You’ve got time” is written by Regina Spektor especially for the series. The lyrics of the song strongly reflect the life and views of the prisoners. It mentions how an outsider sees all inmates in prison as animals in a cage. “The animal, the animal, trapped, trapped, trapped till the cage full.” The reference present that inmates are animals that lost humanity and must be locked up. This song emphasizes the seriousness inside a prison, putting the bunch of inhuman together, but also bring a tiny bit of sadness because not all of them are bad. This song as an opening song brings an audience into the mood. The lyrics of the song is full with deep thoughts with lot of tensions but the music is more on the entertaining side due to the wide range transition of keys, which compliment with the comedy elements in the
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