Orange Is the New Black Renewed for Third Season

Season 2of Orange Is the New Black is still one month away from its June 6th premiere, but on Monday, OITNB star Laura Prepon revealed that Netflix has already renewed the show for a third season.

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Prepon took to Instagramto announce the news, posting a white boards worth of presumably apocryphal titles including The Great Hate Fuck, The Rapiest Pap Smear and Use Your Tears as Lube with the message, Its official!! Season 3!! #oitnb #alexvause #backtothebighouse. Netflix appeared to confirm the news, retweeting the same picture of the white board posted by the shows writers.AsMashablenotes, the showended 2013 as Netflixsmost-watched original seriesever, beating outHouse of Cards.

Earlier this year, series creator Jenji Kohan said that Season 2 would focus less on protagonist Piper Chapman and more on the cast as a whole. Its becoming much more of an ensemble, Kohan said. As much as I love Piper and [actress] Taylor [Schilling] and her journey, I think people are interested in everybodys journey.

In March, Kohan discussed the organic way in which the story lines weave issues of sexual identity and transgenderism into the general plot of an upper middle-class womans time in a minimum security federal prison. Its not confronted; thats the whole point, Kohan said at PaleyFest. Its not The Very Special Episode about the trans character. Its normalized in this conversation.

For the trans community, a lot of people are having conversations that they werent having before, added transgender actress Laverne Cox, who plays Sophia Burset on the show.

Netflix recently released the first trailer for Season 2, which features Schilling saying both, I am prepared to behave like a model inmate and I feel I no longer pose a threat and I am a lone wolf and a vicious one. Dont make me rip your throat out.As with the first season, all 13 episodes will be available on the streaming service at once.