If These Quotes Don't Get You Excited About OITNB Season 5, Nothing Will

Updated on 2/12/2017 at 2:35 PM

This week, Netflix released an intense new trailer and a release date for season five of Orange Is the New Black. Suffice it to say, excitement ahead of the next chapter is at an all-time high, especially when you think of all the burning questions we had after the fourth season finale. Unfortunately for us, there's still plenty of mystery surrounding what's coming up next. We have some behind-the-scenes snaps, sure, but new details pertaining to the next season have reduced to a trickle. So to puzzle out the plot, we've decided to collect all the bits of information we've gathered about season five.

Taylor Schilling explained how things will heat up: "I think the stakes are higher in this season than they have been in a while," Schilling told E! News at the SAG Awards, "just by virtue of the compressed time and seeing people in compressed circumstance really raises the stakes. It's exciting to watch, I think for all of us."
Danielle Brooks unveiled the season's very short time period: "Season five is done over the course of three days," Brooks revealed to E! on the SAG Awards red carpet. "It will be very detailed, very intense."
Laverne Cox described her first reading: "What I can tell you is that I was just as excited as all the fans were to see what happens next," Cox explained to E! News. "When I read it, it was incredible, when we shot it, it was . . . intense. It's really, really intense. It manages . . . as intense as it all is, it still manages to have an irreverence and a spin that is funny and thoughtful."
Uzo Aduba dished on Jenji Kohan's influence: "You can expect Jenji will . . . she will answer a lot of unresolved questions that season four left you with," Aduba reassured E! at the SAG Awards.
Lori Petty believed Lolly would be back: "They have a lot to deal with right now," Petty explained to The Hollywood Reporter. "I'm just waiting on the phone call to get back on the plane. I'm sure it will come, but we have 13 episodes and they've got a lot to take care of, so we'll see. . . . Here's what I assume — and this is because it's all about me, right? — we go into psych and Mr. Healy was there and I'm screaming and crying."
The marketing even suggests a big shake-up: The caption for the official teaser on YouTube warned, "Things will never be the same." The Twitter account, on the other hand, said, "There's no turning back."