Netflix is the new HBO? Maybe.
Netflix seems to be on to something with its original content productions. Earlier this year, we were addicted to their very fine show House of Cards . And it wasn't just us. The folks who nominate shows for Emmys liked it, too. When the nominations were announced, House of Cards was right up there with the big guys like Mad Men and Game of Thrones . Now Netflix has given us another new quality series in Orange is the New Black , a story about a privileged white girl, a Smith graduate named Piper Chapman, who gets sentenced to 15 months at Litchfield women's correctional institute almost ten years after a youthful indiscretion with a heroin importer named Alex who was her girlfriend. Piper had once transported a large quantity of drug money for her lover and long after she has put all of that, including her lesbian experimentation, behind her, she's busted and sent to prison. It turns out that Alex is serving her time in the same prison. There are dozens of inmates at Lit...