Netflix released a new trailer for Season 4 of Orange is the New Black and the latest sneak peek shows what fans can expect in the upcoming season. The trailer shows a lot of drama and how things at Litchfield are changing. Below are nine spoilers from the trailer:
1. The promo shows Taystee behind a desk, where she is apparently the assistant for Caputo (Nick Sandow) and seems to struggling with the steep learning curve. Brooks revealed her character will evolve this season in her interview with Vogue last November. "We left off with Taystee being the mom, taking over this role that Vee was in," said Brooks in the interview. "We’re going to see how she deals with that."
2. One of the new faces at Litchfield is that of cooking show host Judy King (Blair Brown). The trailer shows King talking to her fan, Poussey (Samira Wiley), about how women her age are desexualized and she will not stand for it.
"I think a lot of people think, 'Oh, she cooks, so she's like Martha Stewart.' 'Oh, she Southern. She's like Paula Deen.' She's actually Judy King, a creation of Jenji [Kohan] and the writers," Brown told TVGuide. "She's a very interesting character, constantly surprising to me. Sometimes I get a script and I'm like 'I'm going to say that?'"
As for her character, King will have a cheery disposition and be morally ambiguous.
"She's slightly appalling and very good, and very cheerful, and probably fairly amoral," said Brown. "And it's interesting to watch because she's so other than anybody else in prison. And of course, Judy's greatest ally when she comes in is Poussey Washington."
3. Fans last saw Piper (Taylor Schilling) being a successful panty entrepreneur. "I've been in Litchfield for a while now, and I've started to feel unsafe lately,” says Piper in the promo, who is seen being confronted by Maria Ruiz (Jessica Pimentel) elsewhere in the trailer.
4. Season 3 ended with a cliffhanger that left fans speculating about Alex Vause’s (Laura Prepon) fate. Alex is alive and well, but what transpired in the greenhouse with Kubra’s henchmen is still up in the air. Alex can be heard asking in the promo: “Can you keep a secret?”
5. Prison overcrowding will be a central theme in Season 4, and one of the inmates is heard saying they are being packed in like “sardines.” "This season really drops in a totally different way," said Brooks to Vogue. "The prison is becoming overpopulated. All the new inmates really add more tension, and believe me, it is tense."
6. With more prisoners come more guards. The teaser shows tons of new faces playing inexperienced guards. "They hate me, I hate them, our relationship is simple," says one of the male guards, who is getting stared down by Red (Kate Mulgrew).
7. Nicky Nichols (Natasha Lyonne) was nowhere to be found in the promo, but a previously released teaser showed Nichols, suggesting that her character will no longer be confined in Maximum Security and will finally return.
8. Last fans saw, Sophia Burset (Laverne Cox) was sent to SHU after a feud with Gloria (Selenis Leyva) and the season starts off with her there. Cox has previously divulged that the fourth season will shed light into how transgender inmates are treated in prisons.
As for a reconciliation between the two characters, fans shouldn’t hold their breath.
“I can’t imagine,” Cox told TVGuide. “As a viewer watching, seeing how much remorse Gloria has, I always like to believe there's a potential for forgiveness, but this is pretty bad. This is really, really bad.”
9. Where’s John Bennett (Matt McGorry)? Not in the promo! After bailing on his child and Daya (Dascha Polanco), Bennett is nowhere to be seen and there is no word on whether McGorry will be back to reprise his role. The actor is a regular on ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder.
The new season of Orange is The New Black debuts on Netflix June 17.
