Orange is the New Marxism?

This is a series that I know tons of people are obsessed with, but I have never watched. Considering this is my first interaction with the show I started out on episode one of season one “I Wasn't Ready”. So as most of you probably know in the first episode Piper gives herself up and is leaving her cushy life with her fiance behind because of something that she did in her past. Her fiance drops her off at prison and she is given the advice to “not make friends”. Yet, it seems like she is starting off to a good start with most of the women around her, other than Red who runs the kitchen that is. At the end of the episode we se her face to face with her past...the woman that was responsible for her actions in the first place. When it comes to Marxist theories is somewhat seems like some of the theories are very similar such as the “consumer society” and “materialism”,and “class conflict” and “hegemony”. The theories that I noticed so far in this first episode are class conflict, materialism, and the idea of alienation. I can see how Marxist theory fits in with Orange is the New Black because it is broken up into two social classes much like many the ruling class and the working class in the Marist theories. Piper is a newbie into the “working” or inmate class, and is being told what to do by the “ruling” class otherwise known as the correction officers. It's a prison, it is pretty obvious there is going to be some class conflict there at one point or another. Also although not extremely relevant in the first episode, you can tell that materialism is going to play a big role in the prison culture that Piper is now a part of. This is led on by the importance of the check that Piper's fiance has to send in so that she can buy things. Then the idea of alienation is already hinted at as well. Piper was given the advice to not make friends and to alienate herself, but her cell mates say the exact opposite. In fact her cell mates are giving her tips oh what is normal there, what she needs to do, and when she tries to make her bed they say they will do it because if she sleeps 'in' her bed she would be “the only one in the entire prison that does” which would label her as an outcast, which she kind of already is because she is a newbie there.