But Soso does not have racist "intent" at all. Her comments are grounded in her acceptance of broad racial stereotypes, yes, but her "approach" is not racist. There is no effort to claim superiority of one race over another—stereotypes are insidious and can reinforce racism, but to suggest that she has "racist intent"…

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Which people want to experience the way the writers intended? Content inflects form, form inflects content, and I think spoilers can damage one's appreciation of all of it depending on individual perspectives.

To perhaps overly psycho-analyze this situation: the show introduced Larry as a potentially regular human and explored the ways his privilege corrupted him and made it impossible for him to understand Piper's life in prison. Whereas the show introduced all those other characters as "Criminals," but then revealed their…

The privilege, the entitlement, the efforts to make Piper's experience about him.

Somewhat? :P (No worries.)

The idea that Larry is self-aware made me laugh out loud.

I honestly think that when we get to the final review, there will be a LOT of people who come back in to discuss the whole season, and so you're underestimating how much interest there will be in laundry list threads of thoughts you had while watching.

This strategy has some risk, but that review will see less and less traffic as the conversation switches to episodic, so there are worse ideas.

I wasn't necessarily saying that she was making it up on the spot, so much as it was what she defaulted to when making that case versus actually thinking about ways in which her initial assumption might have changed in the (actually quite brief) period they've spent together at this point.

First, thank you for adopting my use of lunkhead.

I was at a (feminist media studies) conference this weekend where someone was presenting on the messy use of Suzanne in promotion, and I noted that I sort of get why for Season 2: if they had used "Suzanne" in marketing at that point (for, say, those fake lists of what characters watch they had come up in people's…

Welcome to The A.V. Club's daily coverage of Orange Is The New Black Season 4. In order to acknowledge the different paces at which people will watch the season, remember the guidelines:

Nah, it's a Vox article. It's a case where they didn't do what Vulture did (put clearer spoilers in headlines, and in tweets), and put SPOILER in a vague enough headline to leave things open-ended, but then on Google News the "lede" contains the spoiler, which is just some unfortunate back-end issues. The story itself…

While I appreciate that you're not actually spoiling anything here (beyond the panties storyline still existing, and that's not a particularly concerning detail), I would kindly request that you resist evaluating episodes that we haven't covered yet per the guidelines. Even if you're not spoiling anything, you open up…

Welcome to The A.V. Club's daily coverage of Orange Is The New Black Season 4. In order to acknowledge the different paces at which people will watch the season, remember the guidelines:

I wasn't implying that she specifically referred to her as the alpha, was just using my own—admittedly Anglocized—term how how she'd framed her.

To be clear, it was also 1:30 in the time zone I was in, so your idea of late may not be MY idea of late. But yes, swing back in, I imagine there will still be plenty of people coming to this review over the course of the day as they come back online after watching an episode or two last night.

Yes, RDT is right on how I'm reading that scene—he wants to talk to Bayley about his Girl Problems, but he can't outright say it's Pennsatucky, so he's create an imaginary girlfriend to justify it.

Completely fair—I'd choose different adjectives (Conversational! Self-Effacing! Dialogic!) to describe the way I like to engage in the comments, but I totally get where you're coming from. One must gel, or else why bother?