Orange is the New Black

Season-binged it over the past couple of days. Eager for the second season. There are a few problematic plot turnings: gay-as-edgy-rebellion; tall, thin white women are the stars, everyone else is secondary.

But, the show is doing a good job at keeping the majority of the storylines about the women, even when there's a dude involved. It's also really good at giving most people deep, realistic motivations rather than generic heel/face actions.

I'm intrigued by the reactions I feel are expected of me as a viewer. Like, there's an older prisoner, former owner of a cleaning service, doing time for murdering a client who raped one of her maids. So, we're supposed to feel sorry and maybe, outraged, and I do. But it's weird to be guided to feel pity and injustice, when if the story had been about a dude in the situation, the story/emotional nudging would have been Violence is Justified, and Revenge Is Good, and the story would have been shotgun rampage without any criminal repercussions for the dude.