It’s a bit more complex than this, but here’s the gist:

I thought it was a bit unfair to have the upskirt photo. But then I saw her fucking a trash barrel and realized she probably doesn’t mind.

I’ll never understand Australian horse racing.

Lady: I’d like to order 27 cheeseburgers

Imagine if a television show could lead to real world change by helping to inform people of issues plaguing the real life prison system. It’s almost as if the writer of the book and executive producer of the show is a major player in reform and is using the show to help spread the message that reform is needed.…

Don’t you think it humanized the complicated feelings pennsatucky was going through coming to terms with the fact that she was raped by someone she liked? Real life isn’t good and evil.

I wonder if OITNB is a show for white people to get their heads out of their asses. The diversity of casting and opportunity for actors is a nice, huge step forward, but to really talk about the racial implications through something other than a white lens it would be helpful to have some diversity on the team. Piper…

She’s developmentally about ten or eleven years old. She has a very high intelligence in that she can learn new information, process it, remember it, and even synthesize it, but she cannot understand actions and consequences like an adult can. You wouldn’t hate a child for being a child, and she’s no different. You…

Actually, as someone who worked in the field for three years, starting a couple months before OITNB premiered, awareness of the problems of mass incarceration has skyrocketed, and while it’s not solely due to this show, there is certainly a segment of society that didn’t realize how bad it was until they saw it on TV.

Even more heartbreaking is neither Lolly nor Suzanne belong in prison. They’re mentally ill, not criminals. They belong in (humane) psychiatric care facilities like the one Healy checked himself into.

She had no understanding of what she was doing, so yes, I feel bad for her. She’s about as developmentally progressed as the child who died and there is no possible way she could understand what she did beyond it being a “bad thing.” She needs help, and not just in some institution where no one gives a shit about her.…

I’m with you. I have thought a lot of the backstories and how they may change preconceptions of people in prison, who they are and how they get there.

yeah that’s exactly how I felt. It was truly appalling. This woman goes there begging this guy to tell her what happened to Sophia and Caputo gets hard from his sociopath girlfriend pulling a gun on the worried wife of a hate crime victim? WOW.

The entire fourth season was very difficult to watch. I hated every,single.one of the guards. Every.single.one. And I hated Caputo and it was disappointing how, after last season, he just became a soulless corporate creed willing to sell his soul to the Dark Lords for a fancy suit and a shot at hot pussy.

Actually, with the possible exception of one writer ALL the writers this season were white and that’s problematic because you get scenes like the one with all the black women (who have already known each other for years, btw), suddenly discussing whether black people can be racist, which is a conversation I’ve never…

Okay, then, imagine that you were actually doing stuff instead of bitching on the Internet that nobody does stuff.

I think that the “nice” guard doing it actually brings forth one of the most important points in the season. In all of the commentary about african americans getting killed by police, there is always a focus on both sides of demonizing either the victim, or the police officer - which as we see in the MCC planning -…

I think sociopath girlfriend is in for it, being that she’s texting in the prison ladies’ room, hose down, as the riot incites. God, I hope so. I fucking hate her. The fact that Fig comes across as 3000% more evolved than her really says something.

But “protest art” CAN be a powerful impetus for change. Look at Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. Even though its ultimate political statement was “workers need socialism”, the detailed description of the horrors of the meatpacking industry gave the campaign for food safety a major kick to the forefront. OITNB has given…

Imagine if people were capable of enjoying a television show AND working for actual justice in the world.