It's already been half a decade since Netflix graced televisions and laptops across the world with Jenji Kohan's depiction of Piper Kerman's book"Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison."
The show became an instant hit when season one was released in 2013, and June 9 the legendary cast is coming back for season five.
But before bingeing the entire season, let's take a stroll down memory lane to see how all of our beloved inmates have changed since the show began.
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Piper Chapman, played by Taylor Schilling, arrived at Litchfield Penitentiary in the first episode after getting ratted out by her ex-girlfriend Alex Vause for carrying drug money.
Chapman begins her sentence timid and afraid. Back home she is engaged to her boyfriend Larry, living in a Brooklyn townhouse, and living a relatively normal life. Adjusting to prison life, i.e. eating cafeteria slop and using the overcrowded restrooms, is hard for her at first.
By the end of the first season, she's fixed things with Vause and made friends with a few other inmates. Unfortunately, she also made a few enemies along the way.
By season four she was briefly the prison's Queen Bee, but has decided to return to her calmer, more innocent ways by the end of it.
Through the seasons, Piper survives temporary placement in a terrible prison in Chicago, fights off enemy after enemy, dates both Vause and Stella Carlin, and even starts a thriving, illegal panty-selling business. She has become viciously unafraid of anyone, and a master manipulator.
At the end of season four, however, she is branded with a Swastika by an enemy group of inmates (she had been spending time with a white supremacist), which gives her the reality check she needs to return to her original self. She becomes nicer, calmer, and stops trying to "win prison."
Right off the bat, viewers can sense that Laura Prepon's character, Alex Vause, is one of the smarter inmates in the prison.
In the first few episodes, Vause is presented as being extremely street smart, despite staying mostly to herself.
Vause is all about getting through her sentence without any trouble, so she keeps her head down, though she also often does what's best for her and only her — which is probably why she ratted out Chapman in the first place.
In season two, during their trial in Chicago, Vause rats out someone else: the drug lord that she and Chapman had worked for. She is immediately released for helping officials, but the drug lord isn't immediately arrested.
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