#jenji kohan

Orange Is the New Black, Jenji Kohan, 2013-2019

When you stream or buy Weeds, Orange is the New Black, and Social Distance, you're giving money to zionists. Jenji Kohan is as racist and obsessed with whiteness as her TV shows.

It makes sense that the mess Nancy Botwin became was created by the same woman who conceived Piper Chapman .

Jenji Kohan y Selenis Leyva en la premiere de la temporada 7 de "Orange is the New Black" en New York (25/07/2019).

Ruby Rose in Orange Is the New Black, Jenji Kohan, 2013-2019

Having technically known it by heart after several intense re-watchings back in the mid-2000s, I have recently had showed it to my boyfriend, who knew it only tangentially (generation gap!). I remember criticism that Weeds' later seasons (with the exception of 4 and 6) got lost in the re-invention need, with the location shifts camouflaging the storytelling staleness. It's a valid point, I re-watched chunks of seasons 7-8 last year, and cringed heavily at the stinky quality of everything that does not revolve around Mary Louise Parker's nuanced performance. The tenure of the series proved that Nealon and Gould are limited actors and that Parrish, when given a chance of emotionally complex characterization, can pull an interesting performance (season four's ending is his highlight). But it is Parker who remains amazing throughout. In those later seasons, she got a fantastic screen partner in Jennifer Jason Leigh, with whom she shared awesome, brittle, sexy, and extremely lively sisterly chemistry. In this opening season, her great partner is Perkins, whose role would become more of a nasty caricature in her last two seasons (the ones outside Agrestic). What surprised me this time though is how clumsily shot and badly written this season is, part of which points to its temporal situatedness: the characters of color are only drug dealers and maids. White guys (and Celia) throw homophobic and ableist slurs as joke punchlines. Suddenly, starting with episode four, there are weird fade-outs truncating the wobbly rhythm of the episodes. Regardless of that, I am looking forward to re-watching season two, which was my favorite back then: I never was a fan of Donovan, but his on-screen relationship with Nancy Botwin was a highlight.

Opening sequence from Weeds (TV show)

Opening sequence from Weeds (TV show)