are u an orange is the new black fan?
season 3 of the wildly popular netflix series set in litchfield women’s prison is now available and the trailer for the new season is loaded with worthwhile language lessons.
the video starts with a conversation between two of the inmates (prisoners), black cindy (adrienne moore) and taystee (danielle brooks).
black cindy & taystee
black cindy is spraying herself all over with disinfectant–including inside her underwear. taystee doesn’t think this is a good idea, but cindy, , tells her
my grandma used to douche with disinfectant
a is a device women use to clean their vaginas.
a popular brand of douche & a douchebag
later on we see joe caputo (nick sandow) who was promoted to assistant to the warden (director of a prison) at the end of season 2.
joe caputo: it’s complicated in here
he explains
these are complicated ladies in a complicated place
it’s complicated is one of 11 options for relationship status on facebook. note that in both of these situations, it’s necessary to use complicated, the adjective, not complicate the verb.
many of the characters on orange is the new black could use this as their relationship stauts
there is a moment of reflection by poussey (samira wiley) where she says
this place is beating me down
this is interesting because while it may seem like beat down and beat up should be opposites, they are actually almost the same thing. both indicate physical, violent confrontation but beat up can mean there is a winner and a loser whereas beat down focuses more on the intensity of the beating.
poussey feels beat down.
poussey’s idea in the trailer is that the prison is psychologically beating her down.
crazy eyes
and the second comment from the end, i.e. the penultimate comment, is crazy eyes (uzo aduba) declaring
once you know santa claus isn’t real, it’s all downhill from there
it’s all downhill from there is some analysis too, because it can have two different meanings that are almost opposites.
a bike going downhill
(cyclingpix.net)
it can indicate that after a certain point, everything will get easier.
but in this case, crazy eyes believes that everything gradually gets worse and the demise can’t be stopped.
once in this context means when.
there are also several graphics in the trailer that are educational.
omfg is an expression used to show shock, extreme surprise. omg is an abbreviation for o my god and as with the hip hop pop group lmfao, the f is to get more attention and stands for the adjective fucking.
hillary can’t fuckin believe it
believe the means that all of the buzz (excitement), the positive reviews and crazy comments you’ve heard about orange is the new black are credible and .
finally, orange is my drug and the call to action of join the addiction are references to the practice of (viewing many episodes of a series in a row) on netflix.
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