There is no doubt that Netflix’s watercooler hit, Orange is the New Black, is seriously good, gripping drama and worthy of all the critical praise and fan-lovin’ that has come its way.
But what if, wondered YouTube user Robert Jones, instead of being a searingly good portrait of life in Litchfield Prison and by extension, an examination of wider society with all its inequalities and injustice, it was more of an endearing sweet sitcom with cheesecake instead of tampon sandwiches, easy kitchen banter instead of bathroom menacing, and easy to laugh at jokes rather than edge of your seat scares?
Well then you’d have Golden is the New Black, which as zap2it reports, renders “all of the sudden tampon sandwiches, Crazy Eyes peeing on the ground and bathroom scares … a tad more endearing and little less emotionally scarring.”
It’s a lot of fun to watch, seeing Piper, Red and Crazy Eyes in a whole new light, with Entertainment Weekly going so far as to speculate which Orange is the New Black character corresponds to which The Golden Girls housemate:
“That being said, there is one thing we can all agree on: Red is obviously the Sophia of Litchfield, Big Boo the Dorothy, Morello the Rose, and Nicky the Blanche. As for Piper, she’s easily Rebecca Devereaux, Blanche’s daughter, right? They were both engaged to a man at one point.”
So thank you Robert Jones, and thank you all for being a friend and um, not stabbing me in the back while I showered …
And here’s some highlights from first The Golden Girls and then Orange is the New Black in case you’ve somehow managed to miss both shows (in today’s crowded golden age of TV, it’s ridiculously easy to do, unless you plan to never sleep or eat again) …