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It’s also a sign of the next step Orange is the New Black is taking in its storytelling.
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She’s also the driving force behind some of the silliest, most gleefully absurd comedy that Orange is the New Black does in its first season, from the utterly odd yet somehow hilarious roll call of bird name - “pheasant,” “spruce grouse,” “American Bald Eagle” - to Red’s now-infamous pronouncement that “all I wanted to do was eat the chicken that is smarter than other chickens and absorb its power.” (If you have a social media feed of any kind, and you could somehow hear that line WITHOUT immediately typing it verbatim into the nearest open window, my congratulations.) And she is, always, a “she.”įor the chicken, it would seem, is the soul of every woman at Litchfield. The chicken contains whatever it is you most want or need or miss, and the chicken can pass through impassable barriers, and the chicken will always win, for the chicken is, in her nature, free. The chicken has outwitted and outrun all those who would do harm to the chicken. The chicken, we learn from legends of the chicken, is not meant to be domesticated or contained at all. The chicken, from the moment we and Piper Chapman see her in the prison yard, is clearly not meant to be at Litchfield. Veryone is out on that yard running like wild to find their wishes, to grab hold of their best self and absorb its power.