Sophias in solitary; Taystees isolated working as an assistant to Caputo (Nick Sandow). That leaves another round of inmates to fill the void. Litchfield is overcrowdedand so is the show. Credit: JoJo Whilden/Netflix No other drama requires you to care about as many different characters asOrangedoes. But the constant influx of new people has the opposite effect. Like her cast,Oranges creator, Jenji Kohan, might be overextended. The one story that does get deeper with time is Pennsatuckys (Taryn Manning)....

She earned other pre-OITNBcredits forMercy,Atlas Shrugged: Part I,The Lucky One, andArgo. She spent more than 10 years on the show, also earning credits forMrs. Columbo,Heartbeat,Man of the People,Star Trek: Voyager, andNTSF:SD:SUV. JoJo Whilden/Netflix The actress started her career in healthcare, picking up her first acting credits in her late 20s. Polanco made her debut in the early 2010s, appearing in episodes ofUnforgettableandNYC 22. Before landing the award-winning part, Aduba was primarily a stage actor, hitting Broadway inCoram BoyandGodspell....

Massive Spoiler Alert: If you havent watchedOrange Is the New Blackyet, do not continue reading! EW caught up with Wiley just as the season, her last, was about to premiere. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: When did you find out about Poussey fate? Credit: JoJo Whilden/Netflix SAMIRA WILEY: They came and talked to me before we started the season. Were you surprised when they told you? I was completely shocked. Its been an honor....

And so are the Project Castor clones! But one person who isnotback? So whats the deal? Credit: Ken Woroner/BBC AMERICA GRAEME MANSON:Maybe at the beginning, but now Ive totally embraced it. The comic book shop is an awesome thing. You get those guys together. John, what board game should they be playing? What references can we make? And do you dress the board game, John? MANSON:Hes super anal about the board game....

Were these not smut? For those complaining that the EW cover doesnt properly express the depth, complexity, etc. of the story (books or show)… well…no. Credit: MAARC HOM for EW A magazine cover is meant to doonething: attract eyeballs. With luck, said eyeballs will zip to Jamie and Claire, but will also see the wordOutlander. Of course, theres so much more to our cover package onOutlanderthan just that cover image....

Has a fictional character ever made you swoon so much that it becomes sort of… a real crush? (Dont lie, weve all been there.) Check out an excerpt from their conversation, below.Finding Fraseris available on shelves now. KC DYER: Its wonderful to have a chance to chat today, Diana. Thanks so much for joining me! So lets jump right in. What did you think when you first spied it in your inbox?...

Now lets preface this by pointing out the two are apparentlyfriends. And Gabaldon had a few things to say about the difference between her work style and Martins. No, unlike George I write no matter where I am or what Im doing, she said. Credit: John Shearer/Invision for Entertainment Weekly/AP; Chelsea Lauren/Getty Image Everybody has their own writing mechanism. I just kept that work ethic, so to speak. I write at intervals during the day....

Did you feel like you needed a happy ending to season 1 to keep the viewers coming back? Theyll just keep suffering with characters over and over again. Does the action pick up immediately in the new season, after Jamie and Claire get off the ship? Credit: Ed Miller/Starz They arrive in France and then theyre off to Paris to stop the Jacobite rebellion. How do they infiltrate the rebellion, exactly?...

But this episode proved to me (maybe I’m the last one who needed more evidence?) that Caitriona Balfe should be in the awards season discussion too. Her performance heregrieving the death of her stillborn childwas exquisite. Credit: Ed Miller/Starz Because in 18th-century France, Claire is in a bad way. She’s been taken to the hospital where Mother Hildegarde and Monsieur Forez are tending to her. After a period of woozy, wrenching fits, Claire awakenssans baby bump....

Yet we end, essentially, where we began: with Claire in the future and without love-of-her-life Jamie. Past: Scotland, 1746 “Today is the day, James. And mark me: Before this day is over, I will make a believer of you.” Credit: Steffan Hill/Starz After all, if there’s no figurehead to fight for, the fight simply won’t happen. She proposes they slip some yellow jasmine (Colum’s suicide weapon) into the Prince’s tea....

How does Jamie recover? How would his trauma affect his rapport with Claire? Are Moore & Co. even interested in these questions? Credit: Starz Entertainment/Sony Pictures Entertainment Season 2 shows that they might be. The productions vision of prerevolutionary France is impressive, albeit skewed toward decadence and retrograde attitudes. Their folly flatters Jamie and Claire, a relationship of equals marked by fidelity and comfort with their humanity. Thoroughly modern Claire grows bored with her conventional lady of the house days....

We’re very good friends." 2 Balfe says she and Heughan share similar personalities. “We like to work hard and we have quite a silly side to our personalities. MARC HOM for EW We like to goof around.” What we’ve got here is just is wonderful." “Such a great guy, no ego involved.” MARC HOM for EW “They don’t feel gratuitous.” He also comes to terms of what happened to him [with Black Jack Randall]....

tomb and how she became friends with that other epic writer, George R.R. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How has theOutlanderseries on Starz changed your life? Is there a release date for your next book? Credit: Elenna Loughlin I just say youre gonna get it when its done. Its gonna be good, but youre not going to get it until it is good. Where are you in the process? It takes me about three years to write a book....