Season of television series
The fourth season of the American comedy-drama television series Orange Is the New Black premiered on Netflix on June 17, 2016, at 12:00 am PST in multiple countries. It consists of thirteen episodes, each between 54–60 minutes, with a 77-minute finale. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. The series is created and adapted for television by Jenji Kohan.
The season received critical acclaim, again winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for Uzo Aduba, and numerous other awards.
Episodes
Cast and characters
Main cast
- Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman, inmate
- Natasha Lyonne as Nicky Nichols, inmate
- Uzo Aduba as Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren, inmate
- Danielle Brooks as Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson, inmate
- Jackie Cruz as Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales, inmate
- Lea DeLaria as Carrie "Big Boo" Black, inmate
- Michael Harney as Sam Healy, correctional officer
- Selenis Leyva as Gloria Mendoza, inmate
- Taryn Manning as Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett, inmate
- Adrienne C. Moore as Cindy "Black Cindy" Hayes, inmate
- Dascha Polanco as Dayanara "Daya" Diaz, inmate
- Nick Sandow as Joe Caputo, Director of Human Activities, later Warden
- Yael Stone as Lorna Morello, inmate
- Samira Wiley as Poussey Washington, inmate
- Kate Mulgrew as Galina "Red" Reznikov, inmate
- Laura Prepon as Alex Vause, inmate
- Elizabeth Rodriguez as Aleida Diaz, inmate
Recurring cast
Inmates
Staff
- Catherine Curtin as Wanda Bell
- Joel Marsh Garland as Scott O'Neill
- Matt Peters as Joel Luschek
- Alysia Reiner as Natalie "Fig" Figueroa
- Brendan Burke as Wade Donaldson
- Alan Aisenberg as Baxter "Gerber" Bayley
- Beth Dover as Linda Ferguson / "Amelia Von Barlow"
- Jimmy Gary Jr. as Felix Rikerson
- James McMenamin as Charlie "Donuts" Coates
- Mike Birbiglia as Danny Pearson
- Nick Dillenburg as Ryder Blake
- Evan Arthur Hall as Stratman
- Mike Houston as Lee Dixon
- Brad William Henke as Desi Piscatella
- John Palladino as Josh
- Emily Tarver as Artesian McCullough
- Michael Torpey as Thomas "Humps" Humphrey
Others
Production
The series was renewed for a fourth season on April 15, 2015, prior to its third-season premiere.[1][2] For the fourth season, Jackie Cruz and Lea DeLaria were promoted to series regulars; with Elizabeth Rodriguez also being promoted by the season's sixth episode.[3]
Reception
Critical reception
The fourth season received critical acclaim. On Metacritic, it has a score of 86 out of 100 based on 19 reviews.[4] On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 95% rating with an average score of 8.6 out of 10 based on 39 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: "Orange is the New Black is back and better than ever, with a powerful fourth season full of compelling performances by the ensemble cast."[5] James Poniewozik of The New York Times reviewed the fourth season as "Do you measure the quality of a TV season as a beginning-to-end average or by how well it ends? By the first yardstick, Season 4 is ambitious but uneven; by the latter, it's the series' best."[6]
References
- ^ Bibel, Sara (April 15, 2015). "'Orange Is The New Black' Renewed for Season 4 by Netflix". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on April 19, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
- ^ Abrams, Natalie (January 17, 2016). "Netflix sets premiere dates for OITNB, Kimmy Schmidt, and more". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
- ^ Petski, Denise (April 28, 2014). "Lea DeLaria Upped To Regular On 'Orange Is The New Black'". Deadline. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
- ^ "Orange Is the New Black: Season 4". Metacritic. 2016. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
- ^ "Orange Is the New Black: Season 4". Rotten Tomatoes. 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
- ^ Poniewozik, James (June 22, 2016). "Orange Is The New Black: It's About Time". The New York Times. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
External links
- Official website
- Orange Is the New Black at IMDb