![]() Orange is so reliably rollicking that it has always self-identified as a comedy, but because each episode is approximately 60, not 30, minutes long, the Emmys decreed it a drama. The show is a kind of sleight of hand, a wonderfully entertaining magic trick performed with cards that include incarceration, misery, mental illness, bad luck, poverty, and drug addiction. Set among inmates at a low-security women’s prison, the series has addressed racism, solitary confinement, overdoses, and predatory prison guards among other sobering and sob-inducing realities while generally being hilarious and delightful. Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, the third season of which arrives in its entirety on Friday, is a quintessential dramedy. With this rule, the Emmy judges were hoping to solve the problem of “dramedies”-goofily named, artistically flexible, increasingly prevalent TV programs that mix both comedy and drama and thus resemble life, if not a pre-existing Emmy category. Four months ago, the Emmys tried to answer the heady question “what is comedy” by avoiding it: Whatever comedy is, the awards show decided, it happens in 30 minutes. ![]()
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