Episodes Season 4 Orange Is the New Black
Even before season four had arrived, Netflix had renewed Orange Is the New Black through to its seventh season, so we were always assured that the season five cliffhanger would be resolved.
If you need your memory jogged, the final episode of season five – which played out over three days during a riot – saw 10 of Litchfield's finest, including Alex, Piper and Nicky, in Frieda's bunker that had just been broken into by the CERT officers, while the rest of Litchfield's inmates were loaded into buses and heading to new prisons.
Unlike season five, details of the sixth season have been kept closely guarded by Netflix, but here's everything we know so far.
Orange Is the New Black season 6 release date: When can we expect it?
New episodes landed on Netflix on July 27, 2018.
Production seemingly wrapped on season six in mid-February, with the show's stars sharing updates and behind-the-scenes photos on Twitter.
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Orange Is the New Black season 6 trailer: When's it landing?
The official trailer for season 6 dropped on July 9, revealing how the inmates are dealing with their new surroundings, following the riot in season five. (Spoiler alert: not very well.)
The first official teaser dropped on June 5, 2018, showcasing a devastated Litchfield Penitentiary. Dramatic stuff.
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Netflix has also released the new season six title sequence which gives glimpses of the new prison that our favourite inmates will be held at.
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Orange Is the New Black season 6 cast: Who's coming back?
Season five may not have had a major inmate death like Poussey in season four, but there were still the notable deaths of Piscatella (Brad William Henke) in the season finale, while fellow officer Humphrey (Michael Torpey) was also killed off, not from Daya (Dascha Polanco) shooting him in the leg, but from Kukudio (Emily Althaus) blowing oxygen bubbles into his IV.
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We certainly know of 10 inmates that have to be back and they are the ones left in the converted bunker in Litchfield at the end of season five. They are: Frieda (Dale Soules), Suzanne (Uzo Aduba), Cindy (Adrienne C Moore), Taystee (Danielle Brooks), Red (Kate Mulgrew), Piper (Taylor Schilling), Alex (Laura Prepon), Nicky, Gloria (Selenis Leyva) and Blanca (Laura Gomez).
However, fans are worried about Alex after she wasn't seen in the trailer and Piper could be heard asking, "Where is Alex?".
And the show has continued to tease fans about Alex's fate, this time with the help of Jeopardy's Alex Trebek.
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The last we saw of Daya, she had turned herself in for shooting Humphreys, and Polanco is being coy about if she's in season six. "Daya's on her own; she just committed a crime [and] obviously that will be punished. You might not see her ever again," she told USA Today.
Other returns likely include Flaca (Jackie Cruz) and Maritza (Diane Guerrero) who were split up on different buses, Maria (Jessica Pimentel) who helped to release the guards captured during the riot (after betraying Gloria) and Lorna (Yael Stone) who surrendered herself to the guards as she is pregnant.
Away from the inmates, we'll see the likes of Caputo (Nick Sandow) and Linda (Beth Dover) return, the latter who is still a prisoner after failing to convince the guards of her true identity, while Hunter Emery has also confirmed his return as CO Rick Hopper.
In terms of new faces, Bull star Rebecca Knox has joined as new inmate Tina Swope described as a "tough little thing" by the star. "She knows what she wants and she will do whatever it takes to get it," Knox told Seat42F.
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Orange Is the New Black season 6 spoilers: What can we expect?
If you weren't impressed with season five, don't worry, the show's creator Jenji Kohan agrees as she described some of the season's plots as "fan fiction".
"We had lost a bunch of the original writers," added co-producer Tara Herrmann. "It wasn't anyone's fault. It was just a new dynamic – people were attached to the characters as viewers, not as creators."
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But don't expect a dramatic shake-up in season six as Kohan also confirmed it'll still be an ensemble show. "It's gluttony – I like a little piece of this, a little piece of that," she explained.
However, Adrienne C Moore feels like this season is different, describing it to The Hollywood Reporter as "an amazing facelift" for the show.
"Toward the end of season five, there were some people that were agreeing to stick together, and there were some people that were looking out for themselves. We'll see the repercussions of those decisions in this next season," she teased.
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Danielle Brooks, who plays Taystee, has also been hyping up that season six is "different" following the events of season five's finale. "There's no up from there. There's nowhere you can go that's a positive," she told Variety.
"So you're definitely going to see all of the girls trying to figure out how to get out of this rabbit hole they've created. Who is loyal to whom? Who is standing alone? Who is motivated by their own personal will to get out of prison? Who lies and who tells the truth? All of that stuff will come out this season."
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Brooks also told Digital Spy that it was the toughest season to film yet. "The whole season was really challenging because Taystee was pretty depressed this season, to give up on her life and want to throw in the towel, and to live in that place for eight months was not the most fun," she reflected.
"Going from cracking jokes every episode to trying not to cry every episode was definitely taking its [toll] as far as the character goes."
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The official synopsis for season six doesn't give us much more information outside of what we could gather from the first trailer.
"The ladies of Litchfield are back with iron wills and nothing to lose. In maximum security, friendships will be tested and new allegiances will be formed. Will they turn on each other or keep their bonds intact?," it reads.
Orange Is the New Black season six arrives on Netflix on July 27.
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Episodes Season 4 Orange Is the New Black
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