![<p><b>What’s Coming Up:</b> The Season 4 trailer suggests a much more dramatic tone for the series in the new season, and the committedly spoiler-free cast confirms it’s all about the women of Litchfield trying to maneuver the new corporate-owned prison. “What’s happening in the prison [is] in a cascading, almost kaleidoscopic way,” says Kate “Red” Mulgrew. “You’re going to see Red with secrets in the center of a storm.” Lea "Big Boo” DeLaria adds that creator Jenji Kohan “is taking on the prison system. She’s taking it on head-on. That’s why I think people are going to find this a much darker season.“<br /><br /><b>The New Kid on the Cell Block:</b> Lifestyle guru and TV star Judy King (Blair Brown) will be getting everyone’s attention in Season 4. "She’s so funny, often in a rather appalling way, but she is funny. She’s used to getting her own way. And yes, she brings that attitude to prison,” says Brown. “People, inmates, and also the staff don’t know how to deal with having a famous person there. So you can imagine all the variety of ways that people react to that, good and bad.” <i>— Kimberly Potts</i><br /><br /><i>(Credit: Netflix)</i> </p>](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ZWaKCj1dD.4coULdmjbEUQ--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTAyNDtoPTY4MjtpbD1wbGFuZQ--/http://67.media.tumblr.com/f48025e4bdeec0eb587526d2919a3851/tumblr_inline_o7p3nntrka1tbsl8q_540.jpg)
![<p><b>What’s Coming Up:</b> “The humor’s a little sharper, everything’s quicker,” says series creator and star Jill Kargman. Like in the Season 2 premiere, in which Jill pays homage to <i>Working Girl</i> during her attempt to rev up her photography career. Or when she and BFF Vanessa (K.K. Glick) schlep throughout the city to try to score <i>Hamilton</i> tickets, lest they be the only ones in New York who haven’t seen it, in an adventured inspired by Kargman’s real life. “I was at school pickup and people felt bad for me that I hadn’t seen it. They were like, 'My kids have seen it five times.’ It wasn’t just, 'Have you seen it?’ It was, 'How many times have you seen it?’ They gave [tickets] to their housekeepers and nannies for Christmas presents,” says Kargman. “I was like, 'Wait, can I be your housekeeper?’”<br /><br /><b>A Family Affair:</b> Abby Elliott returns as Jill’s frienemy/sister-in-law Brooke, whose philandering husband Lex (Sean Kleier) is desperately trying to win her back after a spiritual journey that left him sporting a man bun. “I won’t give it away, but there’s an evolution of the man bun throughout the season,” Elliott teases. Elsewhere, Kargman’s sister-in-law Drew Barrymore guest stars as Jill’s neighbor, Molly Ringwald shows up as a happiness guru whose new book all the characters are quoting throughout the season, and we meet Jill’s 'rents — played by Blythe Danner and Dan Hedaya — at a holiday celebration. “Everything is heightened because it’s Yom Kippur, so Jill is starving,” explains the star. “And you’re really like your true self when you’re starving.” <i>— Kimberly Potts</i><br /><br /><i>(Credit: Christopher Saunders/Bravo) </i></p>](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3OcHQvxacTPWP2tJDjgH0Q--~A/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTAyNDtoPTY4MjtpbD1wbGFuZQ--/http://67.media.tumblr.com/3745d7f7f32751860700b89b0ed169c7/tumblr_inline_o7p3noC0RA1tbsl8q_540.jpg)
Summer TV Preview: Scoop on 20 Returning Shows
A new season of Mr. Robot would be enough to get us excited for summer TV, but add to it new installments of everything from Orange Is the New Black to Suits to Pretty Little Liars, and we may not find any reason to use our sunblock this season.
