Related question that's more about the law than the show, but can someone be considered a dealer just for having a certain amount of drugs?

Yeah, I think they set up their story to make it more dramatically complicated by having the actual person do it by accident. Even though the situation is set up to not care if he did it on purpose.

The guard even plays a joke on him by pretending he's really going to get in trouble—to the point where Baylee himself is asking if the police know they were smoking weed!

I suspect there are plenty black men his age who suffered more serious consequences for the same type crimes. Boys will be boys and boys will be stupid often only applies to boys like Baylee.

Yes, there's a reason that I think celebrity stalkers tend to go for more than one celebrity. Eventually she was going to start slipping into those delusions again.

I thought his backstory was important—look how many times he broke the law and didn't go to jail for it because doofus white boys are treated as such.

I think her advantages have been shown to matter a lot in prison more than once.

Absolutely. And I can easily imagine Ruiz now being afraid that since she's not going to see her daughter for so long her daughter will never consider her her mother. So she's got reason to both feel enough despair to do this, and even on some level want to keep herself in prison so she doesn't have to face that.…

It makes a weird sense that he does too. We know he has a history of doing these grand gestures that are supposed to make him look self-sacrificing and heroic and he just winds up screwing himself over. It makes sense he'd be attracted to people who are blatantly selfish and terrible to do that kind of dirty work for…

It's possible they're setting up a longer arc for Ruiz. Because yeah, it's obvious why she'd be angry at Piper for good reason, but she also did take the risk of running an illegal business in prison and making herself the leader of it. If Piper's out thanks to the branding, Ruiz is still running a risk. She might not…

Yeah, I think it depends on where we're judging the awfulness. If given the change to pick I'm sure Ruiz would rather be branded on her arm than miss three more years of her daughter's life, so what Piper did is in some ways much worse. But Ruiz committing that kind of physical violence on someone will probably affect…

Obviously we're also defining "better yourself" differently as well. I'm happy to let it go.

I meant that Piper has more education and background and experience of the world than some and this gives her more to work with with 18 months of forced downtime—as for instance the real Piper did.

So what is your conclusion? Just that Piper has no particular reason to be using this time to be improving herself? Because I agree, she doesn't. In fact, you could even say she has less of a reason since she'll be fine regardless. Her attitude is just more spoiled than some of the others'. I'm just saying if she did…

I’m not saying it’s something particularly bad about her that she’s celebrating a symbolic victory of getting her product into a major upscale department store. But I also think it’s saying something more than her doing that in the context of everything else.

Yes, everyone could benefit from bettering themselves, of course. Though some of the other inmates would benefit less because they're not going to be given the same opportunities and rewards for bettering themselves as Piper is, but that's not central to my point.

I meant that Piper knows she's getting out in a set amount of time that isn't that long and knows that she's got a secure life to go back to so has less reason to feel hopeless about her future—along with the advantages she already grew up with that would probably give her a better sense of what was possible. All the…

Oh, I get why it's logical to assume it would be harder to bring drugs in, but there's just probably a lot more factors to consider than just that. I think the logic on the other side is probably that Max houses more accomplished and hardened criminals that ran/worked in bigger drug business outside the prison, so…

Also when he pauses outside a door to note "Well, well. Two bad, nasty little children gone. Three good sweet little children left." (I might be getting that slightly wrong, but I love it.)

Oh, I think it's the commitment to it that makes it all the more appalling to them. Marriage is a big commitment whether it's fake or real. This guy created a whole life with her to spy on the FBI.