Over the course of the first three seasons, we come to learn that she’s a pretty horrible person. She’s not exactly the main character in the series, but it’s fair to say that she’s the anchor character, the one to which the rest of the story is tied.
In "Orange is the New Black," the problem begins with Piper. Incidentally, they are not “as seen on TV.” Without any better frame of reference, I’d bought into popular beliefs about what prisoners are like. That was not what I’d been led to believe I should expect in prison. I wasn’t in constant fear of being raped or beaten up. The thing is, prison is scary in some ways – for example, the omnipresent threat of solitary confinement is terrifying – but it wasn’t scary in any of the ways I expected. I knew from the start that I’d eventually be going to state prison, and that sounded terrifying. One thing I did understand was that I should be scared. I didn’t even understand the semantic distinction between jail (typically a county-run facility used for shorter sentences) and prison (typically a state or federal facility used for longer sentences). I’d grown up in an upper-middle class family and, as of the day I got arrested, I knew nothing about the prison system. In 2010, I was arrested on drug charges, and I went on to serve 21 months behind bars, first in county jail and then in state prison. See, I know a thing or two about what real prison is like. It’s not humanizing, it’s not realistic, and it’s not a step forward.
As a former inmate myself, I call bullshit on that. Since its debut in 2013, the Netflix series "Orange is the New Black" has been hailed as a humanizing portrait of female inmates.
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