“Orange is the new black” and “Face to face” are two TV series that have recently gripped me, and surprisingly, both are about how life is in a woman’s prison. The first is a USA production and the other is a Spanish one, and apart from the principal plot, they are different.
Would you prefer to watch a drama with a bit of comedy or a true comedy based on a dramatic story? That is the main start point. Both focus the plot in a woman, but in each series, she is different. OITNB is featuring by a superficial affluent girl who was sentenced to prison because of a romantic story with a girlfriend who was dealing with drugs, although a business girl who helpt her husband to steal public money is the main character of FTF.
The setting is subtly different in OITNB, a low-security prison without individual cells separated by bars, where it’s mixed a joking but ironic atmosphere in contrast to the most deeply moving personal stories of the prisoners told by flashbacks to the past of the characters. However, FTF is more similar to police series, since it has a complex but completely unconvincing and unrealistic plot, developed in a depressing building where the gloom is appreciated.
Besides, an enormous social criticism is made in OITNB, highlighting racism, xenophobia or homophobia issues between others. These worries are also mentioned in FTF but less directly, because this series is dreadfully brutal and is focus on the most criminal problems like murders and so on.
To sum up, my view is that both series are well developed and carried on by characters with excellent acting skills, but at first glance, you would be able to see the rage, sadness, and fear that insight FTF in contrast to free love, fight and consolation feeling that surrounds OITNB. I would recommend you to see both because you can take advantage of the two series.
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