'Orange Is the New Black' Stars on the Trauma of Being in a Prison

Orange Is the New Black decided to correct the mistake that Game of Thrones did as the show gave the fans a satisfactory and fitting end. However, the show is always known for its massive developments in the prison drama. And in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, stars of the show, Kate Mulgrew, Yael Stone, and Uzo Aduba spoke to the website and talked about being in the surrounding of a prison drama and the range of memorable endings.

Jenji Kohan's Netflix prison dramedy has long exposed how ill-equipped prison is to care for patients with mental health issues. Inside the show's fictional Litchfield Penitentiary, inmates like Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren (Uzo Aduba) and Lolly Whitehill (Lori Petty) have put faces to the larger scope of real-life inmates who are discarded in Psych wards or left without proper cognitive care inside America's prison industrial complex.

Aduba won two Emmys for her nuanced portrayal of Suzanne, an inmate who viewers have seen struggle with getting the medication and stability she needs when faced with loss or change. The final season, however, left Suzanne in a place where she was able to cope with her circumstances, even after the death of her roommate Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett (Taryn Manning) and realizing that her friend Taystee (Danielle Brooks) has been wrongfully convicted.

"[Jenji and executive producer Tara Herrmann] said Suzanne was going to grow up; that she was childlike and was going to the go-to teenager. There are going to be some things that she gets," Aduba tells THR of her character's final season arc. "She's been walking around believing the system works and that everything happens justly. She learns that it's more complicated than what we think and the idea of making sense of that, what does that look like? She was somewhat more well-rooted by the end of this. This is the first season I felt like Suzanne was in full possession of herself."

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