By Season 1, you realize the show isn’t about crime. It’s about cause and effect. These women aren’t monsters; they are people who made terrible choices (or had choices made for them) within a system designed to fail them.
Each shifted the show's tone and scope, moving from personal survival to systemic critique. orange is the new black season
You need tidy endings or morally pure protagonists. By Season 1, you realize the show isn’t about crime
