I think the weed makes it authentic to what's happening to Earn, where he's operating outside of a world where a negative piss test matters. Remember Earn had a job that he probably had to pass a drug test for, and it was shitty.

My least favorite bit of the season: Fig's gay politician husband. I guess they wanted to humanize her a bit and we're supposed to sympathize with her, but it seems like something a woman shrewd enough to embezzle lots of money would have noticed at one point. Not to mention it just seems like a story we've heard of…

Prison logistics question: Is it realistic that Alex would come back to Litchfield after a parole violation? I know we saw Taystee come back to the same prison, but is that the norm?

I like that the whole episode was building to people inside Litchfield taking down Vee. Healy figured out how to actually help an inmate, Red came around to wanting to trust in the system, the four black girls realized that they wanted to snitch. But really what took her down was her own stupidity and a random…

One of my favorite arcs of this season has to be Healy. I think with Caputo, the show kind of let us forget he's sort of a creep who masturbates in his office right after crying women walk out. But I'm constantly thrown from sympathizing with Healy for how his wife treats him to hating him for being a misogynist, from…

I'm torn with Fig. I sort of got the impression that she'd started out hoping to change the system from the inside and eventually that just failed so she's entirely turned her hope and efforts to embezzling money to her husband's campaign, completely convinced that that's the way to go.