Netflix has finally announced the release date for the new season of Orange is the New Black.
Unlike the previous seasons, the sixth installment of the series will be released in July rather than June – the 27th of July to be precise. Netflix has not yet released the trailer for the upcoming season, but we can reasonably expect it later this month or at the start of next month.
The teaser that they did release shows an eerily empty Litchfield cafeteria with smashed windows and battered tables. The lighting is dark and ominous and sinister orange smoke lingers in the foreground.
If you look closely, you can see Red’s infamous and evasive chicken perched on the window sill, a sign that the tone of the series is about to totally change. Outside the windows, we can see a prison bus driving off and a distorted voiceover says: “This is a whole new world.”
Season five finished with the prison rioters being viciously rounded up on the lawn before being herded onto separate prison buses. Pensatucky and Chang have escaped and MCC’s Linda Ferguson is mistaken for one of the prisoners after both Caputo and Boo reject her plea for help.
In Frida’s underground bunker, 10 of Litchfield’s inmates, including a recently engaged Alex and Piper, are awaiting the reaction of the riled up CERT officers who have discovered their whereabouts.
We don’t know what’s going to happen next or how many of the ten will make it out alive. The tagline from the teaser “to the max” suggests that the inmates will not be let off lightly. Their fate might potentially be serving the rest of their time in a maximum security prison. Whatever happens, it looks like things are heating up.
