Orange Is The New Black: Every Major Character That Was Killed Off (And Why)
Orange Is the New Black was one of Netflix's first widely popular and critically acclaimed original shows. The highly influential series was also inspired by a true story, adapted from Piper Kerman's memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, about her experiences at a minimum-security federal penitentiary. The series brought attention to America's broken prison system and the corrupt privatized facilities. It humanized prisoners and painted them as lost, forgotten souls rather than dangerous criminals. It also highlighted that even when a prisoner finally gets out, they are set up to fail on the outside and, more often than not, find themselves back in prison.
The character-driven dramedy never held back its punches. Piper Chapman, the main character of Orange Is the New Black, quickly learned that Litchfield Penitentiary was an entirely different world with entirely different rules. Well, it was a place of political turmoil, racism, corporate greed, and corruption, so actually not all the different from the real world as it turns out. While the show was mainly about Piper, it took time to showcase and explore many of her fellow inmates. Each episode in Orange Is the New Black's seven seasons featured flashbacks of a different character's background and showed what led them to prison. None of the inmates felt like an extra or was forgotten, with so many of them brought to life and having their stories told.
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The series' brilliance at character-focused storytelling made every death hit all that much harder. While violence was not common at Litchfield, the prison was not immune to the occasional overdose or prison fight. Unfortunately,
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