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E se "Orange is the New Black" fosse il nuovo "Lost"?
"Two episodes into
Orange Is the New Black and you'll already start to entertain comparisons to another old favorite. Not
Weeds, although Jenji Kohan's new exploit does remind us fondly of how great the Showtime dramedy was when it started off, but
Lost. Yes, just like every other high concept hour-long program that has come out since 2010,
The New Black has already earned prospective connotation as the new
Lost.
And it's clear why — star Taylor Schilling
finds herself stuck in an isolated, strange, nearly uninhabitable
location, surrounded by a collection of odd strangers, many with whom
she struggles to coexist, each of whom have their own stories. Starting
in the second episode, these other stories begin to unfold. In the form
of flashbacks.
Yes, although we spend most of our time with Schilling's white collar
Piper Chapman, serving a 15-month sentence after running some drug
money with an old girlfriend more than a decade back, we do get a few
glimpses into the pasts of her friends and foes in the prison —
learning, in many a case, why and how these women found themselves
behind bars.
You know, just like
Lost. If you replace "prison" with
island," and "behind bars" with "aboard a plane from Sydney to L.A.,"
and "women" with "people." You get the idea.
Lost devotees will surely be hesitant to sign onto
Orange as
a Dharma Initiative substitute. After all, this is just a goofy class
system satire about some rich lady who goes to jail, right? Where's the
time travel? Where's the smoke monster? Where's the boat that may or may
not belong to Penny?
They're all in there. Okay, not literally, but they might as well have not been literally in
Lost either.
Everything on the ABC drama served entirely as a catalyst for the
central goal: get these people in the same place. Learn about them.
Teach one another about them. Show them, and
us, that the only thing of importance is the fact that they are together.
Unfortunately, not everybody saw it this way, which is what has rendered
Lost a
failure in certain eyes. "What about the answers?" people ask,
unwilling to accept that the only answer the show ever meant to deliver
is that we don't need, and can never know, all the answers. We just need
each other.
And that seems to be what
Orange is up to as well. It's got
its share of smoke monsters and polar bears: manipulative guards,
doorless bathroom stalls, inedible food (don't tell Red I said that!).
All ghosts that haunt the island of Litchfield, while the varied Flight
815 passengers — and Others! — are just trying to survive until their
108 days are up. But along the way, we have a feeling that these women
will come to abide by that age old Shephardian maxim: live together, die
alone".
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Michael Arbeiter)
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