The BEST episodes of Orange Is the New Black season 1
Every episode of Orange Is the New Black season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Orange Is the New Black season 1!
Piper Chapman is a public relations executive with a career and a fiance when her past suddenly catches up to her. In her mid-30s she is sentenced to spend time in a minimum-security women's prison in Connecticut for her association with a drug runner 10 years earlier. Forced to trade power suits for prison orange, Chapman makes her way through the corrections system and adjusts to life behind bars, making friends with the many eccentric, unusual and unexpected people she meets.
#1 - Can't Fix Crazy
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/11/2013
Red's scheme to reclaim her kitchen backfires; the inmates stage a Christmas pageant; Piper's plans unravel even as she realizes her life is in jeopardy.
#2 - Tall Men with Feelings
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/11/2013
The prisoners mourn one of their own and even a drunken Pornstache reveals surprising emotions; Larry gives a revealing radio interview.
#3 - Bora Bora Bora
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/11/2013
Pennsatucky discovers a new skill; the inmates try to scare delinquent teenagers straight; Pornstache's side business suffers a tragic setback.
#4 - Fool Me Once
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/11/2013
Painful truths reorient several relationships and careers; Pennsatucky feels disrespected by Piper, which is not good; Larry delivers an ultimatum.
#5 - F*cksgiving
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/11/2013
Thanksgiving arrives with the promise of a visit by Larry, but Piper's raunchy dance moves land her in solitary with a holiday feast of moldy bologna.
#6 - Imaginary Enemies
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/11/2013
Piper gets to know her stern new roommate; the prisoners prepare a farewell party for one of their own; a misplaced screwdriver has dire consequences.
#7 - Lesbian Request Denied
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/11/2013
Targeted for romance by a fellow prisoner, Piper finds that subtlety is an ineffective approach to letting her suitor down.
#8 - The Chickening
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/11/2013
When her sighting of a legendary feral chicken polarizes the inmates, Larry wonders if Piper is getting too absorbed in the "fishbowl" of prison life.
#9 - WAC Pack
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/11/2013
The inmates campaign along racial lines for positions on a prisoners council, but Piper tries to stay above the increasingly raucous competition.
#10 - Moscow Mule
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/11/2013
Red gets pressured to smuggle drugs through her kitchen; Larry publishes an article about Piper in the "New York Times;" two babies come into the world.
#11 - Tit Punch
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/11/2013
After insulting the food in front of the prison chef, Piper is starved out by the kitchen staff and struggles to offer up an acceptable apology.
#12 - Blood Donut
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/11/2013
Piper wants the prison's outdoor running track reopened, but in order to get it, she'll have to give her corrections officer something he wants.
#13 - I Wasn't Ready
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/11/2013
Sentenced to fifteen months for a crime committed in her youth, Piper Chapman leaves her supportive fiance Larry for her new home: a women's prison.