That FUCKING article. It was lazy click bait, but it… baited me? Whatever, I read it, and it basically had nothing to do with OITNB, gender roles, or reality. Basically, his central argument was that because more men are in prison than women until OITNB portrays male prisoners, it is failing to produce a meaningful…

Everyone?! :(

Yeah, I find that Morello's whole character really screws with gender stereotypes about victimization. She might be very feminine and sweet and love romance, but she is an abuser and Christopher is the victim. So even though you look at that scene and see a huge power imbalance in his favor (he's free, he's a man,…

I know gender-switching characters is usually a pointless exercise, but HOLY SHIT I can't imagine how scared I would be if I put my stalker away and then he broke into my house and the police wouldn't believe me. I mean, yeah, getting yelled at and losing the primary relationship in your life (in her mind, I really…

Or that Piper could tell that Red needed to hear good news. That she could not handle finding out that her life outside is over in that moment.

Totally agree—from the minute Alex says "I've got you pegged" in the bar where they first meet, Piper becomes that girl. She adopts that faux-innocent, cutesey "who, me?" persona because that's what Alex wants from her. And I think Schilling has done a great job of selling that Piper vs. Waspy Piper vs. Prison…

If you've ever seen an actual episode of The Bachelor, you realize that not only is MIB's performance hilarious and the center of the show, it is eerily accurate. That actually doubles for all of Burning Love.

And she was at her worst when trying to be tough. She completely misread the Miss Claudette situation and could have gotten herself seriously hurt (and doomed a very emotionally volatile woman to maximum security prison for in all likelihood the remainder of her life) because she picked a clear wrong target for doling…

I too am appreciative that they haven't made any of the characters innocent, but rather sometimes point out that the system will throw the book at those it's easiest to persecute—look at how many more drug addicts than drug dealers there are in Litchfield, and how many of the dealers were low level lackeys or…

and when they met in this episode good god was it glorious

Hey, I recently rewatched all of the episodes, and I don't know if season 1 Daya supports this—she seems pretty genuinely a cartoon-sketching shrinking violet—but flashback Daya maybe does, at least in the sense of using Cesar for sex and validation much in the same way she's used Bennett and Pornstache, albeit all in…

i am terrified at the idea that this show will follow the characters post-prison. and that they'll all go to mexico. And then New York. And then back to jail? Don't really remember how it all wrapped up in the end…

It went from funny, to sad, to really really sad, to it's going to be okay, and I watched this in like 2 days so it really put me through the ringer

Interesting! She just has some self-obsessed qualities then, which I think they were hinting came from growing up in a house where no one is paying attention to anyone or anything besides what they're doing in that moment.

I think most of the psychological baggage she was facing was covered in the first season. Her insecurity and fear of losing the body she gave up everything to achieve, letting her wife move on romantically but still figuring out how to be a parent and a less selfish partner… I liked the bits and pieces here and there…

Noooobody fucks with cancer.

I thought Vee's backstory showed she's always been a power-hungry coward. I think that's a lot different than the HOLY SHIT BADASS they introduced her as.

Still, though. She attempted escape and a murder. She'd be in max with a life sentence.

Vee getting killed in the bluntest way possible, too. You know she probably had a million different speeches planned if she was ever cornered and thought she was gonna die. She probably wanted to go out on a chess metaphor that explained why black women and white women will never get along or something.

I was more annoyed that she was bringing out the worst in Caputo, i.e. he'll do the most heinous shit in hopes of getting laid. And maybe this is because I'm from Jersey, but come on… the minute you see the overly attentive gay aide, that marriage is over. I'm glad to see Fig go, though, if only because her character…