And those women are a refreshingly subversive set that includes characters rarely seen on television: elderly women, people of color, the overweight, and notably, a black transgender woman played by the trailblazing actress Laverne Cox. By showing Piper, whom Kohan once described as her " Trojan Horse" to get more diverse stories on TV, as a tone deaf character grossly unaware of her own privilege, OITNB makes her the window into the lives of much more fascinating women. Over time, the dramedy slowly rebels against that conventional, fish-out-of-water narrative to depict the absurdity and horror of prison life. The show's protagonist is a bourgeois, white New Yorker, which-for the most part-is not representative of women in the criminal justice system.
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