As it heads into its seventh and final season, we look back at how OITNB made the most of the streaming era’s brave new world
was technically the second of Netflix’s original series to debut, arriving five months afterwas exactly the kind of antihero drama that had been made for years on cable TV , felt like something new in almost every way. As the women’s prison drama enters its seventh and final season this week, it feels right to celebrate it as the first series explicitly designed for the streaming era, and still one of the best at taking advantage of the freedoms offered by this brave new programming world.
That Piper was often the most annoying character in the series turned out to be a feature, not a bug, once it became clear that the show mostly understood that, too. She would still get a disproportionate amount of screen time relative to her dramatic merits in some seasons — this final one dwells a lot on her attempts to rejoin her old life after getting early parole — but even in those scenes, the joke tended to be on her, rather than on the people she was obliviously offending.
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