Nice.

Are you watching each episode on the same day its recap appears?

You bring up another good point that's been bugging me: Why don't the guards know who to reach out to at MCC? Why doesn't Caputo have any contacts other than the one guy? I would think a corporation like MCC is characterized as being would have a "change management" team handling the guards—sweet-talking them about…

I've only worked for three big corporations, so I probably don't know as much about it as most people, but usually any benefits issues I've addressed to my direct supervisor were met with "Contact HR." Then I contacted HR, which was usually run by a central corporate office in another state. So maybe that experience…

I can see that.
But I could also see that as her sitting there like a
bad-ass because it's the first time in her life she's ever felt like
one. And then that feeling is so easily dissolved by the dude's
reassertion that she's ugly and won't amount to shit. Which shouldn't
have bothered her if she was an accomplished…

Have you read his review of Ching Chong Chang? He starts it with a doubling down on this very point.

I thought that, in the prison skit, Chang wrote herself as more decisive, powerful, confident, etc. In real life, she failed to feel powerful (even though she was literally about to grant him life or death) because his rebellious last words were so true and hurtful.

Stella was "negging" Piper, and it was working!

Meh. There are a lot of people on AV Club who get into the cinematic aspects of these shows in way greater detail than I would. If film obsessives can't be accepted here, where on the Internet are they accepted?

Stereotypical for poor people, you mean? Or for criminals? Or for hispanic people? I don't know this stereotype.

Painful to watch a plain-looking girl being called ugly, maybe?

If you really wanted to be PC about race/nationality, you could point out that Chang being Chinese (as her surname would suggest) doesn't automatically imply that she's watching a Chinese drama, seeing as how a lot of Chinese people watch Vietnamese, Korean, or other dramas dubbed in Chinese, and even know more than…

The Babydykes of Tumblr would disagree with you, from what I've seen.
She's hot as hell. Maybe it's okay to add eye candy for the lesbian viewers, once in a while?

Yes, for sure.
But I'm also seeing the broader story of what it means to have a race-based posse in prison. Highlighted by lame attempts to shoehorn Soso into an "Asian" group with Chang (which Chang rejects). They're both alone and treated shabbily based on their ultra-minority status.

I had the impression she was trying to replicate a Chinese dish.

Maybe they meant she was ugly by Chinese standards as opposed to white guy standards, in addition to the acne.

I get what you're saying.
To me, it's weird that they're complaining to Caputo as if he's the one making those decisions. Why don't they complain to MCC, if they feel so strongly?

I just posted on last recap to disagree with you, and then see you defending yourself on this one.

He said he owed her one, and she immediately said she knew what favor she wanted in return. Then, next scene, she's having him beat up that guy. How on earth does that come off as a long-term thing?

I had to log in just to say this. Myles, it seems like you finished the ep thinking Flaca was proud of having scored the sewing job. ("Marisol walking through those doors to find sewing machines is—to
her—fulfilling a destiny, in which the trade her mother taught her has
given her value. She doesn’t know a completely…