Also, Jewell never fully escaped the shadow of his infamy even after he was cleared and the all the stress from it, including the resulting libel cases coupled with heart disease and diabetes, sent him to an early grave.  All the money in the world won’t bring him back or take away the damage.  That he’s still…

It is possible to take a true story that involves a real injustice, and still portray it in a way that twists the lessons we should learn from that story or serves a more nefarious storyline. Richard Jewell truly faced an injustice, and was screwed over in a way that shows some pretty systemic issues with law…

This author is probably too young to remember how badly Jewell got screwed by the press. This really wasn’t a right or left issue, it was an example of irresponsible media sensationalism, perhaps one that Barsanti could perhaps learn something from.

The thing is, Richard Jewell actually was a hero, did save lives and was unfairly vilified.

This seems very much like a bad faith argument from Wilde. 

According to Wikipedia, Charley Pride won Entertainer of the Year in 1971. So there's been exactly one African American winner in 50 years, which is pretty damning itself.

The thing no one remembers is that “Single Ladies” actually won Video of the Year that year, the more prestigious award. Kanye wasn’t just a jerk, but he jumped the gun. Basically, he got upset that Moonlight didn’t win best screenplay when Best Picture was still to come.

I remember how that was a huge controversy about was Em in on it or not only to turn out later he was 100% committed to the gag and was really concerned if people bought it later.

How can he be right if it was a fan vote?

Going to say here what I’ve said in other places.

Whatever the writer’s opinion, these articles should clarify that this takes place in a dream sequence and is meant to show Pitt’s egotistical character in a bad light.

Sometimes when actors refuse to take direction and mess up the director’s artistic vision, it’s a good thing. 

Not to destroy your optimistic reading (I’m not against hope), the episode is definitely suggesting Taystee was adding Judy King to her call list, which became a closed loop within the episode itself.

I don’t think it matters that Colombia is a modern country, the point of the airplane scene was to show that Maritza is being treated as just another invisible person in the system who’s being treated like shit. It doesn’t matter where she is sent, she has nobody in Colombia, she didn’t even know that she was born…

The scene with the kids appearing in court is not out of the realm of reality. It really does happen.

Enjoyed the season and your reviews immensely. I fortunately had the house to myself this weekend so nobody witnessed my sniffles and tears.

I’m from San Diego, we lived in Mexico for almost a decade, and even now we’re in New Mexico. I’ve spent my entire life on America’s southern border. I don’t believe in open immigration. That’s crazy. No country on Earth has that. And the countries we hold up as examples of civilization working at its finest, like…

Fig! I totally bought the scene with her doctor - excellent rug pull, show.

This isn’t exactly a continuity error this time, but I don’t entirely understand why Alex is being transferred to a maximum facility - my understanding was that those women who went to medical after the riot, like Alex, didn’t get charged with anything related to it. So they’re all in max while at Litchfield, because…