Apple, too woke to go broke?
Truth Be Told. I've seen the first 3 and it has moments of the worthwhile mixed with the worthy. I like the black angle, if you will, with a quality cast. However, the writing seems a bit up and down. If for example, you look none-to-closely, it's clear that the AB (Aryan Brotherhood) offset to liking Cave has a not so polar black racist dimension against white's with Poppy's mixed criminality of her family but, whether viewers are supposed to overlook this because the AB's are so abhorrent I'm not sure.. Some reviews I've read smack of white apologists and/or just note how forward thinking it is of Poppy's character - and her albeit late wake up.
The show does however offer up both white and black racists in prison guards, bikers the AB and such but it's definitely weighted toward the black angle. And, as Poppy is this strong female character - nothing wrong there - they are overcooking some things, like her dealings with Warren Cave. In that she gives him a mocking speech about how he was no doubt traded and raped but she won't take any racist talk from him and makes him say he will not. At that point I laughed and said surely he'd fire back with you helped get me here lady and now you're trying to make me your bitch, but no. The dynamic is always in Poppy's favour where she lays down her truth and Warren just goes along for the ride, like he's still some scared kid underneath it all to be led about. He never stops to say this is at the very least quid pro quo and/or that she is dependent on him too.
There's lots to overlook with her do-gooder character breaking this or that law/morality but the most obvious being a supposed Aryan getting aid and visits from an African American and managing to skate by or, that jealous inmates won't mess up his release with it being dangled for all - as is the need to conceal such, as often noted in factual documentaries. But this is far from factual and, if you've got thus far, will be surprised to read that I'll probably stick with it, though weekly or wait for it to conclude and binge...