I mean, yeah? That's a major theme/message of the series (and the book, for that matter). I'm not sure what it has to do with this particular episode though.

Okay, so I won't go back and change it due to spoilers and whatnot, but I hereby rescind everything I said about Piscatella in the comments for the last episode. It turns out he is not in fact Die Hard.

He's John McClane from the perspective of the (considerably more sympathetic) terrorists.

That and I was thinking they could fuck up LCD screens, but apparently that's a myth too.

I think you're missing the point a little with Piscatella. From his perspective, he's the one guy with the knowhow and the clear-sightedness to save the hostages - he's fucking Die Hard. But to everyone else he's Friday the 13th.
What's weird for me is how much they were parodying the slasher movie vibe (in addition to…

I've never delt with mag mounts, so maybe I'm wildly off base on this, but is it the best idea to have magnets so close to a smartphone?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the forgotten pool been a plot point, or at least a running gag, before? I may be confusing this with another show, but I could have sworn it's been referenced occasionally (but never seen).

Hyper-privileged blonde teenage girl's parent saw the original production on Broadway.

Needed a little more soul, though.

Pen pals, maybe?

"Alex, why are you inexplicably the new leader of the Outside Kids?"
"Well Pipes, I think some of your vestigial 'main character narrative focus' rubbed off on me."

I feel like they were conflating Fox with FoxNews, but whatever.

Nice lookin' corn this year.

"She said never be around a meth-head with a gun."
"Then what are we still doing here?"
"It's a cliffhanger."

I kinda thought it wasn't even a crime backstory, just a slice of life (like both of Poussey's fakeout flashbacks).

To be fair, there actually is a secret snack bunker - it's just Frieda's.

I think it was less a setup for a punchline and more a cheap crowd-warmer (like saying "how great is [city name]" when you're performing in [city name]).

That feels like cheating.

It was a patient-enrichment-arts program that put on concerts, and by all accounts everyone had a good time. "Swindled" seems like a stretch.

I think you've left a pretty important monkey-paw-esque loophole here…