Sophie’s Choice: Orange is The New Black – Season 3 (TV Review)

Read my new Sophie’s Choice TV review on Orange is The New Black for Student Rag magazine:

*WARNING: This review contains spoilers*

If you managed to binge-watch the whole of season three within a month like I did (partly so you only had to pay for one month of Netflix), there might be a bit of a gaping hole in your life now because despite its lukewarm beginning, the new season of Orange is The New Black was pretty damn good.

Does it rival with season one and two however? I’m not so sure. One of the biggest disappointments of the first few episodes of the Netflix original series set in Litchfield Penitentiary was the anticlimactic reaction to Vee’s gruesome death.

B.C. A.D. A.H. – After Humanity (Playwriting)

I was looking through some old homework assignments from my creative writing class at university this year and came across this dramatic scene homework task. I really love playwriting but I hardly ever do it because it’s a lot more technical and formulaic than ordinary short story writing but I’d really like to get into it more. One day writing a play that would be put on in a theatre would be the dream. Have a read – enjoy!

B.C. A.D. A.H. – After Humanity

Characters:

• Malicia
• Leekie

Interior of a dark underground room with ladders to the left leading up to the outside, letting in dim light. The room is littered with boxes and old rubbish. Malicia and Leekie scavenge for food.

Leekie: [Rummages through boxes with a slightly hunched back and a limp.] I-I can’t believe we found this p-place. We must have p-passed by that trap door 20 t-times in the last week and we only just noticed-

Malicia: [Interrupts.] Shut up! [Pauses to hear something.]

Leekie: What is it?

Malicia: Nothing. I thought I heard something. Don’t talk so loudly. Someone could walk by and hear us. Hurry up and find something so we can get out of here before they get back.

Leekie: Who?

Malicia: The person who built this place. I don’t think they’ll be too happy to find us stealing from them.