Orange is the new black comes back: what can we expect from the sixth season

One of the great novelties of


Netflix
this month is the landing at the platform of
streaming of the sixth season of


The orange is the new black

the prison drama of Jenji Kohan
perfectly designed for marathon, but that is then expected for more than a year.
The fifth installment of the series based in part on Piper Kerman's autobiography was created on June 9, 2017, which only increased anxiety before this return on which his
showrunner decided not to provide too many details to preserve the surprise factor. Whatever it is, in this note we remember where we come from and we fight where we go in the multiplicity of stories displayed by Kohan's creation.

Warning: this note has spoilers!

* Rebellion as a starting point

In "Storm-and Weather", the last chapter of the fifth season , the popular song of The Cinematic Orchestra "To build a house" – chosen by the infinity of series for its indisputable effectiveness, as we have seen in
Gray's Anatomy Like
in This Is Us – it sounded then that two facts were raised in parallel. On the one hand, the vast majority of Litchfield inmates were transferred to other prisons, being separated in the process. On the other hand, the resistance group composed of Gloria (Selenis Leyva), Taystee (Danielle Brooks), Frieda (Dale Soules), Piper (Taylor Schilling), Alex (Laura Prepon), Nicky (Natasha Lyonne), Black Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore), "Crazy Eyes" (Uzo Aduba), Red (Kate Mulgrew) and Flores (Laura Gomez) have decided to stay in this improvised bunker to hold their orders until the last consequences. Taken by the hand and faced with possible reprisals, on the faces of each one of them, we could see the fear of the future. Precisely from this premise arises the sixth season of
Orange is the new black
: of coexistence with the unpredictable

Also, l & # 39; writing team of the series – from Kohan herself, to Jordan Harrison,
until the indispensable Lauren Morelli – launched with height the challenge that had been imposed: that the fifth season is developing in a three-day setting, the duration of this riot propelled by more than one reason.
The death of Poussey Washington (Samira Wiley) was a turning point for the characters, especially for his friend Taystee, who has become the undisputed figure of the latest episodes. "I really enjoyed telling the story of Taystee, who rebels and manages to speak very intelligently about penitentiary reforms and the search for justice for Poussey, to see a character go through such an intense internal conflict. was very positive "
Brooks told the Digital Spy website, noting that the union of characters was the key to the fifth season and the perfect contrast of the sixth, which will be marked by emancipation.

* New season, new codes

While in the first spread, we could not conclude anything beyond the Obvious – that the maximum security prison will have one more character – in the second trailer, the panorama became clearer. "What you are going to see is how they will all become toads of another well, and they will be forced to reinvent themselves in a new prison," Brooks said. Indeed, Netflix emphasized the adjective "new" when it unveiled the two trailers of this sixth season, in which the word was constantly repeated, also as a way to rebadure us that if something knows how do it
Orange is the new black, reinventing itself. In fact, if we rely on the main axiom of the series – alternating between one season more
light with much darker – so it is likely that this return is marked by coarser vignettes, also the result of this domino effect that keeps the machine running. The death of Poussey not only highlighted the problems of Litchfield
He also widened his eyes and allowed Orange to tackle urgent topics, such as the Black Lives Matter movement. In this new season, the replicas of this riot spread to other places of unknown but equally urgent characteristics.

So, as we saw in "Storm-and-Weather", friendships them stronger will be put on hold, opening a whole new world of possibilities: How the daily life of Flaca (Jackie Cruz) without Maritza (Diane Guerrero)? How can Morello (Yael Stone) survive without Nicky? In the official trailer, the face of "Crazy Eyes" to witness the change of habit somewhat symbolizes the spectator's reaction to this earthquake in the foundations of the most important links in the series.
Orange is the new black has always favored group dynamics and individual on the blows of the effect. A conversation, a confession, a word of support allowed us to connect to the melting pot of characters, establishing a familiarity with them. In this sense, the sixth season will be marked by outcasts in microcosms in which from this familiarity there will be little and nothing, and in which the incorporation of power codes will be the key to guarantee survival.

* Where is Alex? an enigma to solve

The character of Alex had finally found stability, after several traumatic episodes In any case, as it always happens in the series, his well-being is related to that of Piper and to the # State of its fluctuating relationship. In the fifth season, the couple commits before the outbreak occurs, and is shown united in this last plane. However, the absence of Alex in the advances is notorious. While all survivors of the bunker put their loyalty to the test when they are questioned by the details of this
Riot inside the riot, The face of Prepon is visible by his absence. Although this does not determine the screen time that the actress will – who shared the footage from the end of shooting with Schilling in February – it's another clbadic gesture from Kohan and company : let a certain character breathe so that his come back is more glittering (it happened with Nicky, Sophia, and even with Alex in the second season, where he was in only four of the thirteen chapters.)

In a Another of his astute promos, Netflix played with the fan's anxiety, and posted a video where we can see Piper play in the iconic program
Jeopardy, and answering each question with his own question: "Where is Alex? In this way, the momentary disappearance of
Schilling's partner takes us back to "I Was Not Ready", the first episode of the first season that ends with the sudden entry on stage of Prepon, an actress with a strong presence that, the earlier rather late, surely enter the same path to a sixth season when we say goodbye to the "normal" Litchfield. It will be a question of adaptation.

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