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She is wholly reliant on the help of others, which most of her cellmates are eager to give. Most of the episode revolves around Piper’s first two days in prison, marked by a strange tension as she tries to go with the flow but is clearly operating out of her element. She wants to do the right thing by serving her time, but also thinks of prison as a place where she can spend time getting “ripped like Jackie Warner” and finally “read everything on her Amazon Wishlist.” Piper is stoic in front of family and friends, insisting they not cry at their intimate farewell dinners, but still very fearful of going to prison, retreating to cry in stolen moments on the toilet or lying in bed next to her supportive (but up until recently, in the dark) boyfriend Larry, played by Jason Biggs. But, as she says, it was during her “adventurous” post-college years, before she turned into the “upstanding white lady she was always meant to be.” She wants to do the right thing, but simultaneously thinks she has already redeemed herself by turning into the middle-class ideal, and only turns herself in when her ex-girlfriend implicates her two years before the statute of limitations is up.
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Piper is guilty - she absolutely carried a suitcase full of drug money into another country for her former girlfriend Alex (played by Laura Prepon), and owns the mistake.
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OITNB spends most of the first episode developing Piper Chapman’s character (and flaws) through the lens of the secondary figures in her life and a creative use of flashbacks. Much to my surprise, the short answer is yes. If the past week has proven anything, it’s that America’s relationship with the politics of inclusion is hanging on by a thread could I really trust a show about a middle-class white woman sent to prison on a decade-old drug charge to grapple with the nuances of race, class, and gender and still be entertaining? I was going to give this show a pass and not watch it after seeing what can only be described as the pickininny-ish imagery of the Netflix ad campaign. If you’ve already binged season one, we urge you not to go into the comments and say things like, “If you’d already watched the whole show, you wouldn’t have written…” We are experiencing this show one entry at a time. Vulture will be recapping Orange is the New Black episode by episode.