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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  I'm currently 100 pages in and haven't yet found anything which, aside from the crime, arrest, court appearance and arrival at the prison, matches the events in the first season. The inmates she has met so far are (mostly) different to those in the TV show, as are most of the guards, although there is the one who she describes as looking like 'a gay pornstar', who is in the show.
It's early in the story though, so I'll report back when I've finished the book. |
I finished the book just over an hour ago and it's clear the TV adaptation takes the bare bones and factual accounts and makes them much more dramatic and suspenseful. As the TV show concentrates on the backgrounds of other inmates, sometimes a different person each episode, these are almost entirely fictionalised, because names and physical descriptions of people were changed for the book, so even 'Crazy Eyes' who, in the TV show, is African American, is Hispanic in the book and 'Red' is called 'Pop' in the book (an abbreviation of her surname: Popovich).
It makes perfect sense that people do not really talk about themselves and their families, or why they are in jail when they are inside – Piper only encounters Alex (in real life she is called Nora) at the very end of her sentence and in a different jail – so quite a bit of the stuff in the TV show is fabricated.