I feel like we saw how manipulative Alex can be when she was talking about turning women out, and the other inmate called her a "Pimp".  It made me feel less sorry that Pensatucky broke her glasses.

Enlightened (tear…..) I still miss it. Fuck HBO.

I'm glad that they didn't go the "Private Benjamin" route with Piper.  She, like Mary Louise Parker on Weeds, is definitely in over her head, but she's not an idiot, and I think she is capable of compassion.  My regret is that Larry is played as such a nebbish fool that it is really hard to believe that she'd be with…

I think this review gets at something which is hard to deconstruct - where does Frank Underwood's narcissism begin and Kevin Spacey's end?  I really admire Spacey as an actor, but I find him humorless at times, and there are points when he's talking to the camera where I feel like I'm watching Shakespeare in the park…

I'm replying to my own comment.  The fourth wall is working a bit better for me (I'm on chapter nine.)  Feeling more like Shakespeare, but I also feel they are using it less.

I think this show is going for an epic, Shakespearean, tragic quality, and in tone and cinematography I feel it achieves that (I love the theme too.  Someone should remix THAT.)