Netflix Releases 'Orange is the New Black' Season 3 Early

Netflix has had their share of escapees, from the House of Cards early leak to Daredevil’s red costume, but Orange is the New Black Season 3 earned an early release all on its own. All episodes of the streaming site’s breakout prison dramedy have been paroled ahead of schedule, and are available to watch right now!

Netflix tweeted out the news late Thursday night, though no explicit reason was named for the early premiere, some six hours ahead of schedule. It certainly couldn’t have hurt to give fans an early start to binging over the weekend, what with Sunday’s Game of Thrones finale sure to dominate the conversation, among other event TV.

Already renewed for Season 4, we know of Season 3 that Justified star Mary Steenburgen will appear as Mendez’s mother, alongside fellow additions Ruby Rose, Mike Birbiglia, Fringe star Blair Brown and returning Lori Petty. Yael Stone (Morello) has been upgraded to series regular, joining Dascha Polenko (Daya), Samira Wiley (Poussey), Selenis Leyva (Gloria), Nick Sandow (Joe Caputo) and Adrienne C. Moore (Black Cindy). Laura Prepon too will return full-time, appearing in every Season 3 episode, as seen in the first trailer.

You can check out our early review (well, not so early now) of the first six episodes of Orange is the New Black Season 3 and get to streamin’, ya turkeys!

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