I laughed.

Warden McNutt has good news and bad news.

Real talk. As I noted on Twitter, by ability to be primarily frustrated by the way people are ascribing motive to my criticism is shaped by the fact I don't need to worry about the type of treatment faced by women, people of color, etc. in these situations.

No, this is totally logical, I'm not trying to deny her nickname exactly. Just something that I did while writing/watching.

See, but this implies that Trump is only stoking racism as a strategy, and doesn't actually believe in it. And that's an overly sympathetic reading of Trump. Piper is not a Nazi, nor is she Donald Trump—she is an accessory to racism, neither innocent nor guilty of the prejudice itself.

Foreshadowing!

Yeah, my fault for not having the featured comment with the guidelines in place when this went up, but this is the second time you've done this: don't write comments that start with "as someone who just finished the season." Not everyone wants to know if something is resolved or not.

I don't think I'm saying they need to objectify themselves specifically—I'm noting that privatized prisons force inmates into more and more uncomfortable situations, which Maritza's circumstance demonstrates. It's less that her specific circumstance is entirely new thanks to private prisons, and more that it becomes…

So there are a few things in this comment that cross a line into spoilery for me—the way you're describing certain characters is based on events that have not yet happened, and while I don't think anyone would be shocked to see those descriptions, I worry that it will spur on conversation that will eventually lead to…

I think this is a classic case where our closeness to the show overstates the degree to which they could gain any traction with this. I do think that Judy King could maybe have brought Litchfield more public awareness, but I don't know if we're the best judge of how widely news could spread based on these actions…

I can see where you'd draw that comparison, although I ended up finding Leslie less reprehensible than that. I think she acted without empathy, yes, but there was such ambiguity in terms of what actually happened in American Crime that her approach was pragmatic out of necessity, especially early on. She made some…

I don't think Piper IS a Nazi, though. That's a key difference here.

I don't know if they had started using that at this point, though. (No, it's not a problem that you've spoiled his nickname, it just was something that I remember coming up later).

I've defaulted to first names for the characters in this case—I don't know why, exactly, but it started happening so I've stuck with it.

Per the comment guidelines (which weren't up when you posted this, so this is not a punitive action), I'm going to delete this comment. I realize you don't spoil anything, but this comment represents a risk of opening up conversation of future episodes, and as it stands does not contribute anything to the discussion…

Thanks.

Y'all wrote 217 comments in three hours while I was unexpectedly out this afternoon, which is like when the guards let the inmates use the recreation space for a party and trust them not to step out of line. So I hope y'all haven't been melting down without a featured comment, but for those who come later:

Yeah, as Odibex notes, we're playing a zero tolerance game. I'll let you edit as opposed to deleting (it's not a spoiler, I know), but I don't think the value of the foreshadowing you offer here outweighs the potential risks. (This is in part because I won't be able to closely moderate starting on Thursday, so I'm…

There has to be some kind of downside to being able to watch an entire TV season over a weekend—this is it. Finale review goes up next Wednesday. Write 'em down in a word doc.

Not in the comments on each individual episode, in case people come back to them months later while they're making their way through the season. (I mean, months later there's no way anyone is going to be policing them, but still.)