Season six of Orange Is the New Black reveals that Frieda Berlin's bunker-building, self-protecting streak is not only a result of her childhood, but that it's been honed during her time in behind bars.
The new episodes include a deep dive into a dramatic turf war that has lasted decades, as our veteran prison dweller is seen with one of her first partners in a prison library in the '80s. That partner in crime, Carol, turns out to be the sister of a rival drug dealer (and rival kickball captain), Barb.
Young Barb is played by actress Lauren Kelston. Though you might not recognize her, the New Jersey native has done a fair amount of comedy and improv. In fact, she's a regular performer at the Peoples Improv Theater (aka the Pit) in New York. She's also flexed her dramatic chops with parts in Last Night in Brooklyn and...
The new episodes include a deep dive into a dramatic turf war that has lasted decades, as our veteran prison dweller is seen with one of her first partners in a prison library in the '80s. That partner in crime, Carol, turns out to be the sister of a rival drug dealer (and rival kickball captain), Barb.
Young Barb is played by actress Lauren Kelston. Though you might not recognize her, the New Jersey native has done a fair amount of comedy and improv. In fact, she's a regular performer at the Peoples Improv Theater (aka the Pit) in New York. She's also flexed her dramatic chops with parts in Last Night in Brooklyn and...
- 7/31/2018
- by Kristin Conard
- Popsugar.com
It was hard to know how “Orange is the New Black” would — or could — come back after its fifth season, which was as ambitious as it was ultimately disastrous. The show became as scattered and chaotic as the inmate protest-turned-riot it was trying to depict, sending every character spinning seemingly for the sake of it. By season’s end, two guards had died and the inmates were rounded up and shipped off to different prisons.
It’s understandable why, after four similarly structured seasons, the show was tempted to slow the story down to follow just a few extraordinary days in the characters’ lives. But in the end, the result was too thrilled with its own daring to make much sense. So the question was how Season 6 could recover without ditching its ongoing storylines and starting over with a whole new cast.
Thankfully, Season 6 does its damndest to reset the...
It’s understandable why, after four similarly structured seasons, the show was tempted to slow the story down to follow just a few extraordinary days in the characters’ lives. But in the end, the result was too thrilled with its own daring to make much sense. So the question was how Season 6 could recover without ditching its ongoing storylines and starting over with a whole new cast.
Thankfully, Season 6 does its damndest to reset the...
- 7/16/2018
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
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