The thing is, that Holy Communion line is ridiculous but so, so accurate. When you spend so much of your life adrift simply because you've been forced to craft your entire persona around the denial of your identity, when you finally meet someone who lifts away that heavy, horrible feeling, it really does feel like…

Yeah, it's not like people's sexual identities are inherently political or anything. REAL queer people don't even have to think about that stuff!!

I think you really overestimate the complexity of this episode. Not a single viewer missed that these are MEN in MASCULINE CRISES. Even the female character is in a crisis of masculinity. It's a pretty shallow pool so far, we can see the bottom without your crystalline insight.

The problem with this suggestion is that it relies on the notion that Nic Pizzolatto has a sense of humour.

The dialogue in this episode was garbage - or at least, nothing that existed around it matched it so it was just ill-fitting.

The only point at which I really laughed was when Blake went to help Val get through the door and just moved her over so she'd bump into the OTHER window.

Thank you for the clarification!

I think it's less that they don't know how and more that I think this show has been met with a decent amount of dismissal, in part because the critical tide has turned against the Wachowskis with incredible force in the last decade, and because the mainstream press - including on-staff critics, who are typically…

It's annoying that Netflix's new interface doesn't let you see how many people have rated the show, or a definite average star rating either. Because that's generally a good indicator.

Well put. Though honestly, I'm fucking tired of having to care about people's delicate sensibilities. More sex on TV. More swearing. More nudity. So it can come closer to reflecting real life.

Jesus, this shit again? It cropped up on the last episode review as well. All else aside, since someone else has pretty much addressed it, a polite reminder that television is a visual medium, and a lot of what this show is doing is evoking the sensory and sensual experience of the characters. The show literally has…

That museum scene is incredible on so many levels.

That's definitely possible too, since I think they only began production in November, so it's a solid turnaround.

It's pretty simple publicity. The network sends out episodes for review, which are supposed to give a flavour and texture of the season as a whole. Three episodes is a pretty fair number, when you think about it. Three full hours is a lot for people who aren't dogged TV nerds to invest in a crowded marketplace.

Yeah, it seemed really abrupt. I kind of wonder if they realised Lyonne wasn't going to be available and wrote her in as a stopgap. It seems like Nicky would've been right in on the panty business.

That might be my favourite interaction in the whole show. Lito's face, his "Yeah, you know you loved it" tone.

Enough Jonah. Enough Splett. I am bored by them, no matter how good the performances are.

It sort of seems like they're quickly running out of plot, so I wouldn't be surprised if next season were the one where they started to branch out a bit. Maybe the corporate takeover means they need to make room for more prisoners in max, and lesser crimes like Nicky's get her sent back? I dunno, but I'm significantly…

Did we even find out why she was in prison? All I got from her was that she was a bit of a seductress, which isn't terribly interesting. In any case, I think her purpose was to be the hot distraction which she achieved. But Ruby Rose is no actress.

I liked it as a season of television more than I liked OITNB's second or third seasons.