"Orange is the New Black" has been renewed for a fourth season, which means fans will see more of their favorite characters at Litchfield prison. While we don't have an exact release date for the Netflix Original we can guess that the show will return summer 2016, as previous seasons has always premiered in the summer. This article contains spoilers, continue reading at your own risk.
There were lots of surprises in season three of "OITNB" but none more than seeing John Bennett (Matt McGorry) walk away from his life, baby and the woman he loves. In previous seasons Bennett has been the dutiful boyfriend and he even proposed to Daya (Dascha Polanco). But shortly after getting engaged, Bennett decided this life wasn't for him and left everything behind.
McGorry gave some insight as to Bennett's disappearance in a recent interview with Vulture.
"The flashback is analogous to what ends up actually happening with Bennett and Daya," said McGorry. "Here he is, he's in battle, he's talking a big game, but when it comes down to it, the other lower-ranked guy jumps on the grenade as Bennett goes and runs. I think it's sort of who Bennett is: He wants to be the hero so bad, and he tries but falls short. It's pretty tragic, but there is some part of me that thinks Bennett believes he was doing the better thing by leaving. It allows Pornstache's mother to step in, it allows other things to shift. I mean, if you think of it, that relationship has been a ticking time bomb since the beginning."
In the season finale we see Daya giving birth and keeping her baby, who unfortunately ended up with child services after her mother's scumbag boyfriend Caesar is arrested. It makes you wonder if McGorry will return to reprise the role? It would make sense plot wise as no one is there for his child but the actor gives us a grim point of view stating that Bennett's and Daya's relationship is doomed from the beginning.
"That’s part of the effectiveness of the storytelling. It baits you into that relationship," said McGorry in the Vulture interview. "It’s so romantic, but you forget [that it’s doomed to fail]. But I think there is something very real about how it turns out. The nature of a relationship between a guard and an inmate, it’s not a problem until it’s a problem."
Furthermore, McGorry remained vague about his characters future in an interview with Yahoo. He said ultimately Bennett's return is up to the writers of the show.
"The thing that I can say about Season 4 is that it’s the writers’ decision about whether or not Bennett is back… I have my fingers crossed that he comes through and is the man that we all hoped he was," said McGorry. "But I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that wasn’t the case. Like me, I guess you’ll just have to wait and see."
It'll be interesting to see if McGorry returns and what will happen to his and Daya's child. But until then check out these other X juicy details about season four of "Orange is the New Black" below:
1. Red & Healy - In season three Red (Kate Mulgrew) and Healy's (Michael Hearney) relationship evolved. What started out as manipulation quickly turned into something real and according to Mulgrew the relationship will continue evolving.
"We feel that she and Healy have an “understanding,”" writes Mulgrew in her Entertainment Weekly celebrity blog. "They are far from enemies but neither are they bosom buddies, although she has animatedly and openly defended his virtues, to the chagrin of his petulant and self-consumed “mail order bride.” Red has established her willingness to fight for what is decent and, in her mind, unimpeachable. But then our throats tighten as we watch her snuggling up to Healy over a tea tray and we blink in a kind-of disbelief as we begin to form the (by now) uncomfortably clear impression that she is flirting with Healy, and that she is using all of her albeit rusty wiles to seduce him."
2. New cast - Recently, the studio has announced that they’re in the process of casting for new inmates in New York City, and they’re particularly looking for Dominican type females to join the show’s cast. This more than likely has to do with the ending of the third season which showed more prisoners will be coming to Litchfield.
3. More casting details - The casting call included a requirement that candidates must not have worked on the show previously, and should be comfortable with having “natural hair only, no wigs, waves, extensions, dreads, twists and no unnatural colors”. This makes it pretty clear that they’re looking for a typical inmate role, but the casting call doesn’t specify how many positions they are looking to fill.
The only small hint we got from that was the fact that all those characters will be completely new to the show and we won’t have seen them before, so the producers are definitely looking to spice things up a little bit.
4. Character promotions - Lea DeLaria has recently been made a regular cast member for the new season. She plays the role of Carrie “Big Boo” Black, and was recently just a recurring member, but it looks like fans are going to see her more regularly on the screen. Along with her, Jackie Cruz has been given a similar promotion, so her character Marisol “Flaca” Gonzales is also going to get more prominent exposure in the future episodes.
5. Release Date - April 15, 2015, Netflix announced early renewal of Orange is the New Black for a fourth season. Season 4 of OITNB is slated to be released sometime in 2016. Netflix is yet to schedule the exact release date but based on previous seasons the fourth season should arrive June 2016.
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