I prefer this version of events to "they made screeners of the entire season available a month ago," honestly.

Welcome to the Orange is the New Black comment section. As always, a reminder these comments are intended only for those who have seen up to this episode, so avoid spoiling or alluding to future episodes (and instead post in the reviews for those episodes). And yes, this means that the cameo by the inanimate carbon…

Welcome to the Orange is the New Black comment section. As always, a reminder these comments are intended only for those who have seen up to this episode, so avoid spoiling or alluding to future episodes in your discussion (and with all reviews posted, you can do talk about those things there). I know we're all…

As noted in the review of the first episode of the season (I didn't append it to every review, because it would get exhausting), we're experimenting given that Netflix made the entire season available well in advance and the season is built around a binge structure. It felt like a specific circumstance where this…

It definitely seemed like there was an idea that Janae could potentially get into the school, given how thorough the visit was, but yeah, this happens.

Boy, that production sure took the musical's most iconic number at its word!

Chalk this up to "Riots make you crazy," would probably be the writers' suggestion.

What's weird is that Laverne Cox has NEVER been a series regular, but has felt like one based on the impact of the season one flashback and her prominence in discourse around the show. Her availability has always been limited, and so I think anyone who were to binge watch the show starting now without having seen the…

I think "drift" is the right word: everything is "on topic," and there's a rational flow from idea to idea, but they definitely felt the need to spread their wings, not dissimilar to how Weeds had to leave Agrestic after the first three seasons.

I think there's room to explore the complexity of the psychological after effects of sexual assault, but the show has been really clunky with how it's done it: last season, some commenters jumped on me for arguing the show was trying to rehab Coates' character, arguing the show was clearly suggesting Pennsatucky was…

I envy you so much.

I also only know it from the episode of Bob's Burgers, FWIW.

I think there's a difference between "calm under pressure" and "shows zero awareness that there's even anything happening." There's no dialogue to indicate who he is, why he's there, or how he's responding to any of this. He just casually goes about his day? It's insane. The idea that a nurse would be calm in this…

I look bad in hats.

So here's the thing. On the one hand, I get that you weren't aware of those news reports, and might not have wanted to know about the way the season is structured. However, these are reviews, not recaps, and they are inherently informed by my relationship to the show. And so because I was aware of the season structure…

I think the argument is that Daya wasn't processing it and that most of the characters who weren't reacting to it were either a bit flighty or—alternatively—the more violent inmates who arrived at the start of Season 4. But I also think the show was actively trying to reset the tone and reopen the story to comedy, and…

You buried this in another comment thread! I suggest reposting in a proper thread of its own. I nearly missed it.

Yeah, this is definitely what's happening. Its temporality is one big ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I had forgotten that there are those who see grades as a form of spoilers, and that's perhaps not ideal: it's great for the people who WANT to know grades to know if they should watch the season, but obviously an issue for those who see them as something that reshapes viewing. I think my best suggestion would be to…

WHO WOULD DO THAT. (You can't get me out of this spiral, no matter how hard you try, trust me.)