‘Orange Is the New Black’ will end after Season 7
It’s lights out at Litchfield Penitentiary. The upcoming seventh season of the Netflix hit “Orange Is the New Black,” set to premiere next year, will be its last.
The cast of the comedy-drama series based on Piper Kerman’s 2010 memoir about her experiences at a minimum-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, broke the news in a video posted on Twitter Wednesday.
“The final season is coming,” says Taylor Schilling, who stars as key character Piper Chapman on the show.
Piper was sentenced to prison for carrying drug money to Belgium for her girlfriend.
Other cast members, like Kate Mulgrew, who plays Russian inmate Galina “Red” Reznikov, praised the series while getting sentimental.
“I’m going to miss playing and living on the edge of one of the most groundbreaking, original and controversial series of this decade,” Mulgrew said.
“Seven years, been a hell of a ride,” said Dascha Polanco, who plays Dayanara “Daya” Diaz.
The show, Netflix’s most-watched original series, earned a dozen Emmy nods in its first season alone, winning three that year.
“I’m so grateful for the fun times, the knowledge, the friendships, the love, the family that we have created together,” shared Uzo Aduba, who in 2015 won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Emmy for her role as Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren.
While the main setting for the show’s first five seasons was Litchfield Penitentiary, a minimum-security women’s federal prison in upstate New York, last season focused on the maximum-security prison where several of the inmates were transferred after a prison riot.