ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: FUCKSGIVING (TV)
Summary
One in this comedy-drama series, based on the memoir by Piper Kerman, about a preppy young woman's experience in a women's prison. In this episode, Red finds a quantity of drugs in one of the Thanksgiving-dinner shipments and flushes the pills, knowing that Pornstache is behind it. Piper grows emotional at the experience of human contact when Sophia styles her hair for Larry's arrival, and Gloria prepares a strange abortifacient tea for Daya. Pennsatucky answers "fan mail" from her anti-abortion admirers, and when she accuses Alex of living a privileged life, Alex recalls dealing with mockery from other girls during her impoverished childhood. Alex's mother, however, reminds her that her absent father is a famous rock star. The inmates throw a party for Taystee's release and Pennsatucky is outraged by Alex and Piper's "lesbian activity" on the dance floor. Healy takes great offense to Piper's behavior and orders her sent to the SHU, much to everyone's shock. Taystee frets that she has few skills for life on the outside, though Miss Claudette and Poussey encourage her to use her smarts to find her way. At visiting time, Suzanne talks with her kindly white parents and Sophia is upset to hear that Crystal may be starting a relationship with her pastor. Larry is shocked to hear from Fischer that Piper is in solitary, and Piper struggles to deal with the endless monotony of the SHU.
Alex takes a unique brand of revenge against Pennsatucky, and Pornstache threatens Red for destroying the drugs, informing her that he can pin it all on her and ruining her vat of gravy to make his point. Larry's attempts to contact the warden about Piper are unsuccessful and he considers canceling the family dinner, though Cal points out that Piper has made her own mistakes and would want them to celebrate as usual. Healy visits Piper and voices his sense of betrayal at her actions, telling her that he "gets" her, but she viciously calls him out on his condescending attitude and his "weird lesbian obsession." The guards are uninterested when Pennsatucky's sidekicks steal Alex's mattress and break her glasses, and in the past, an adult Alex finally tracks down her father and is sorely disappointed when he turns out to be an embittered has-been. She then meets his drug dealer, Fahri, who informs her that he works for an international cartel. Daya realizes that Gloria's tea was useless and Aleida encourages her to keep the baby, telling her daughter that she can still make something positive of her life. Piper hears a voice, seemingly from another cell, and has a conversation about the torturous experience of the SHU, and she frantically realizes that she may have doomed herself by blowing up at Healy and vows to behave herself –and avoid Alex – if she is let out.
Taystee is abruptly released and says an improvised goodbye to her best friend Poussey through the window, and Larry is starstruck when Polly and Pete bring NPR host Maury Kind along to Thanksgiving. Alex tells Nicky that she would have used her as a drug mule if they had met on the outside, noting that she was the ideal rebellious and unhappy rich girl, but states that Piper was "different" from her other recruits. Jane advises Sophia to let Crystal "get what she needs," as Sophia did via her crimes, and over dinner, Maury invites Larry to participate in a radio interview about unusual "long-distance relationships." The inmates sit down to their gravy-less Thanksgiving dinners, though Piper realizes that her "friend" has vanished and Caputo orders Healy to release her from SHU, saying that he "made it personal." Daya decides that she wants to keep her child after all, and after Sophia phones Crystal and offers her blessing, she finds that she has been returned to her original hormone dosage. Taystee's worst fears are confirmed when she finds that she has nowhere to stay, and Healy calls Larry with some "information" about Piper. Piper is released from the SHU and, coming to a decision, heads straight for Alex and re-initiates their sexual relationship.
Details
- NETWORK: Netflix
- DATE: November 30, 1999
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:35
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 116288
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Drama; Prisons; LGBT Collection - Drama; African-American Collection - Drama
- SERIES RUN: Netflix - Internet series, 2013-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jenji Kohan … Executive Producer, Created by
- Sara Hess … Co-Executive Producer
- Lisa I. Vinnecour … Co-Executive Producer
- Michael Trim … Co-Executive Producer, Director
- Gary Lennon … Supervising Producer
- Neri Kyle Tannenbaum … Producer
- Tara Herrmann … Co-Producer
- Jonathan Talbert … Co-Producer
- Mark A. Burley … Consulting Producer
- Sian Heder … Writer
- Piper Kerman … Based on the book by
- Scott Doherty … Music by
- Brandon Jay … Music by
- Gwendolyn Sanford … Music by
- Regina Spektor … Theme Music by
- Taylor Schilling … Cast, Piper Chapman
- Laura Prepon … Cast, Alex Vause
- Michael J. Harney … Cast, Sam Healy
- Michelle Hurst … Cast, Miss Claudette Pelage
- Kate Mulgrew … Cast, Galina 'Red' Reznikov
- Jason Biggs … Cast, Larry Bloom
- Danielle Brooks … Cast, Tasha 'Taystee' Jefferson
- Tracee Chimo … Cast, Neri Feldman
- Laverne Cox … Cast, Sophia Burset
- Kim Director … Cast, Diane Vause
- Joel Marsh Garland … Cast, Scott O'Neill
- Annie Golden … Cast, Norma Romano
- Vicky Jeudy … Cast, Janae Watson
- Lauren Lapkus … Cast, Susan Fischer
- Taryn Manning … Cast, Tiffany 'Pennsatucky' Doggett
- Adrienne C. Moore … Cast, Cindy 'Black Cindy' Hayes
- Elizabeth Rodriguez … Cast, Aleida Diaz
- Nick Sandow … Cast, Joe Caputo
- Abigail Savage … Cast, Gina Murphy
- Robert Stanton … Cast, Maury Kind
- Samira Wiley … Cast, Poussey Washington
- Tanya Wright … Cast, Crystal
- Natasha Lyonne … Cast, Nicky Nichols
- Pablo Schreiber … Cast, George 'Pornstache' Mendez
- Uzo Aduba … Cast, Suzanne 'Crazy Eyes' Warren
- Mary Boyer … Cast, Pat Warren
- Carla Branberg … Cast, The Voice
- Sabrina Carpenter … Cast, Jessica Wedge
- Michael Chernus … Cast, Cal Chapman
- Elizabeth Coppola … Cast, Lonnie
- Catherine Curtin … Cast, Wanda Bell
- Lea DeLaria … Cast, Carrie 'Big Boo' Black
- Maria Dizzia … Cast, Polly Harper
- Glenn Farnham … Cast, Dennis Warren
- Emma Fisher … Cast, Rich Girl
- Lolita Foster … Cast, Eliqua Maxwell
- Beth Fowler … Cast, Sister Jane Ingalls
- Chike Johnson … Cast, Ladrius Wells
- Sebastian LaCause … Cast, Fahri
- Selenis Leyva … Cast, Gloria Mendoza
- Carmen Mathis … Cast, Doreen
- Matt McGorry … Cast, John Bennett
- Emma Myles … Cast, Leanne Taylor
- Lawton Paseka … Cast, Lee Burley
- Jessica Pimentel … Cast, Maria Ruiz
- Dascha Polanco … Cast, Dayanara Diaz
- Rachel Resheff … Cast, Alex (10 Years Old)
- Kaipo Schwab … Cast, Igme Dimaguiba
- Constance Shulman … Cast, Yoga Jones
- Carol Stanzione … Cast, Shannon Brown
- Nick Stevenson … Cast, Pete Harper
- Nesha Ward … Cast, Abby Harris