I've just remembered the conversation between Luschek and Piper in the first episode- the "how would you kill yourself" discussion. He mocks Piper for choosing pills, the "rich person's" suicide method since pills are expensive. Maybe it was just the natural method for Soso, another character from a wealthy…

I agree- he was just totally dumbfounded. You might fantasize about your evil boss being brought to desperation, it just rarely happens. And he had actually already sent the files to the warden before he even entered the room, so he wouldn't have been able to do anything about that, anyway, in reality. But there's…

My thoughts were less about how an outside business would be run and more about what it reveals about her character- that the core values she embraced outside of prison are not really her core values. Piper belongs to an elite liberal social class, filled with people who would all say that they believe in social…

The joke is on Piper in a way, though, because her actions didn't exactly get her the old Alex back so much as a broken, crying shell of her, mid nervous breakdown. So inconvenient when actions have consequences.

Actually, that isn't what happened. After Piper is attacked by Alex's girlfriend (season 2 flashback), Alex says she kept seeing Piper around and liked her, and then says "And then when you called…" so, Piper was the one to initiate the first call. And then Piper tracks Alex down again a few weeks later and pretty…

She arrived sometime around September. She'd been there a few weeks when the leaves started to change. Now it's mid-May, so she's maybe 8 months into a 15 month sentence. Not too much of a spoiler, so I'll mention that at a later point in the season Piper says she has "6-12 months" left, which I suppose may be a range…

Yeah, but she was also telling her this after having returned to prison after a furlough, which has got to mess with your head. A couple hours ago you were sleeping in a real bed, drinking real coffee, realizing that the outside world was moving on without you and you have no power over it. Now this person that you…

I do, too. And frankly, I'm starting not to buy it when people talk about how much they hate these characters for being boring. Hate is a strong emotion. If the characters
were boring, you'd just be bored by them- no need to hate them. So the characters are doing something that is triggering some sort of emotional…

Oh my goodness, I hadn't realized that Michelle Hurst, who played Miss Claudette, had been in injured in a car accident in late 2013 until just now (even had to be put in a coma for 16 days). But it appears from her filmography that she has been doing some acting recently, so maybe she'll return in a future season.…

Of course, when men make comments like this, it does help me understand why some women are gay.

Actually, I was shaped almost exactly like Daya in both of my pregnancies until about the 8 month mark, and I never got that baby bump that looks like someone put a basketball under their shirt at all. Everyone is different, but it rang true for me.

She was more integrated into the prison in season 1, especially with her friendship with Nicky and her scenes in the laundry. Of course, season 2 was limited by the number of episodes the character was able to appear in. But isolation is kind of the point right now. Alex is completely broken. She's not supposed to be…

No, it showed him disobeying the order to kick the grenade out of the tent because he was too busy diving for cover as far from it as he could get. Instead, a fellow soldier threw himself on top of the grenade and probably died. It was meant to juxtapose someone else's act of bravery with Bennett's inability to rise…

I don't know. My impression was that she fears Kubra, and my take on why she reacts with such negativity to the changes in Piper's behavior and personality in this episode is that Piper is starting to act with a ruthlessness that is reminiscent of Kubra.

Delphine will have been shot by a clone of herself, so that if Evelyne Brochu decides to come back to the show they can do it without having to resurrect her character. You know, to make it more believable.

Caputo didn't overlook it. He only found out about it earlier in the day when Piper gave him the files she had lifted from Fig's office in exchange for him canceling her transfer to a different prison. He had already sent copies of the files to the warden before he even came in to the office to confront Fig about the…

Actually, it's a known fact that they have a magic filter that they pop on the camera and presto! Instant gorgeous. Really. These people are just totally normal looking schmoes in their real lives, and any one of us would look this fantastic if we just had one of these special cameras.

I actually don't think he meant to imply it. I think he just kind of stood there dumbfounded because circumstances had changed so quickly. You might fantasize about your evil boss being brought down, but you don't expect it'll happen! But he didn't stop her, either, which is where Fig could have made a reasonable…

Actually, the thing about this show is that very few of the characters are really terrible people (even when I am shouting "You're a terrible person, Piper!!!" at my TV screen). They are just really flawed, Piper included, which is a nice change of pace in some ways from shows that refuse to criticize their…

Piper is an artisanal soap maker who is in prison for just a few more months because of a stupid infraction done in her youth. The fact that she is in prison for being part of Alex's drug ring but doesn't realize that her girlfriend, as a drug dealer, knows all about how her new payment scheme works shows you just how…