There have been various rumors about the future of “Orange Is the New Black”, once the show returns for its fourth season, and one of those is the regular rumor that Laura Prepon will be coming back to reprise her role as Alex Vause. This is something that the community of the show’s fans discusses pretty much every year before new episodes start airing, and this year is no exception. The last that we heard about the situation came from Prepon herself, who implied that she would indeed be coming back.
But it wasn’t quite clear what she meant about the timeline of her return, leaving some fans confused about whether they should expect to see her in season 4 or not. The last we saw of her character was a negative development during the finale of season 3, which showed her coming up against a hired gun.
So obviously, fans were not only expecting to see her coming back in the new episodes, but many are curious what’s going to happen to her character and if she is about to go through some rather negative developments. All we know right now is that she will indeed be making at least some appearance in season 4, but exact details haven’t been confirmed yet, and it might be referring to just a brief role in one or two episodes.
There are other characters that fans have been hopeful to see returning in the new season, and Alex is definitely not the only one fans are tightly focused on right now in their discussions. Bennett is someone else whose fate fans have been questioning a lot, despite the fact that it’s pretty much confirmed that he’s out of the show for good at this point.
We wouldn’t put it past the producers of “Orange Is the New Black” to have some surprise waiting for their fans somewhere down the line of season 4 though, and bringing back certain characters could certainly have an interesting impact on the way fans see this show. Especially if the producers pay attention to online discussions about the show, where fans are regularly talking about the kinds of developments they want to see in the future, and which characters they’re most interested in seeing return.
With a few more months left in the production of the new season, there is a lot that can happen and various details are still under question. Not only the returns of certain characters, but other more major parts of the plot’s development are being questioned by the production’s fans. The fact that more characters were sent off to a “supermax” containment facility has been particularly worrying to some fans, who see this is an annoying trend in the show and a cheap way for the writers to get rid of characters they don’t want to maintain on the screen any longer.
Meanwhile, Prepon revealed some interesting details about the production of the show behind its scenes, claiming that some actors – herself included – have had to take part in some seriously dramatic scenes, where they’ve had to reveal deep details about their personalities and play a vulnerable role, something which has been quite difficult for her. She stated that she was happy to have the support of everyone around her on the set, and she was also sure that they would all be able to pull through this difficult moment with relatively little effort if they put their minds to it collectively.