That may have been ill-worded on my part, apologies if so.

Very well put. The Piscatella's stuff was all very oddly put together. It also seemed peculiarly crass to try to narratively tether such a uniquely traumatic and ugly flashback - literally the bloody aftermath of a gang rape, which for Piscatella (never mind poor Driscoll) can only have been mind-numbingly horrendous…

Not sure where to flag the fact that, for the 2nd time, an entirely innocent comment I've posted (literally just answering someone's comment/query about Lorna's pregnancy test, in this instance, and no swears!) has been marked as spam. And, weirdly, apparently also reported as not spam ("thanks, we're looking into it…

Interesting point re: Suzanne. My own take on it is that she is sufficiently effing annoying that it's not by accident, IYSWIM, and that this was a deliberate artistic choice to give the audience a sense of how maddening, exhausting and frightening it must be for Taystee and the other women in the group to be…

Agreed on all counts.

I think this is an excellent analysis, and if I had to wager I'd probably lean towards the assumption that this is what Jenji and the writers are going for.

Agreed - such a viscerally awful thing to say to somebody. The acting was absolutely tremendous from Dunham in that scene and Rannells was incredible too - I felt huge empathy for Hannah but also related enormously to Elijah. His obvious, nauseated regret before he'd even got the sentence out and his voice cracking as…

If she's only 6 weeks, then by definition she can't have known for more than about 2 weeks - since of course the timeline of pregnancy is rather counterintuitively measured such that the zero weeks point is the beginning of the last period (i.e. two weeks-ish before conception), so conception occurs around the "2…