Yeah, I'm done with Piper. Not been interested in her love triangle or in her descent into Heisenberg-lite. It hasn't helped that Alex (with whom she had the strongest connection in the series) has been so out of place, but it's just not fun or clever stuff they're doing with the character. I'd say more or less the…

Sorry for mislead - the Penn and Coates reference was more reflecting the territory the writers are working in, rather than their legitimacy as a 'relationship'. (They were hinted at platonically and romantically, after all, as a misdirect and as a foundation for Coates' unforgivable actions) I'd never consider them…

Wow, was that blogger majorly overthinking a silly joke.

It's hard to tell at times. Maybe it's a confusion between the writers and the directors - the dialogue (like Red's references to him as being a contemporary) often seems to suggest they're just the friend each other needs, while things like the lingering looks during the wedding suggest a romantic side of things. I…

Looks like every other Executive is smart, so we just need to put Executive D in charge.

I like them as a friendship, but I really hope they don't keep pushing the romance.

It more or less worked for me, although I did have to keep checking the time to see how much more there was. I kept expecting it to cut away to an actual story for the last 10 minutes… then 5 minutes… then, is that it?

So they've got a 50% success rate so far? Well that's okay, because there's TWO in development! Play the odds, Strelnikov!

If someone had told me between seasons 2 and 3 that Soso would be at the centre of one of the most joyful moments of the show, I'd have said they were crazy. But damn, if it wasn't just wonderful to see her get a family.

No. Chris Pratt, you're not allowed to be the funny man AND the hunk AND the really awesome guy in real life. Go slaughter some puppies to make up for it.

I know the show has always played a lot of its storylines and characters broad (particularly with Pennsatucky in the first season), but it really does feel like every other episode in season 3 so far has been massively overplayed. Not all of them, and I was hoping for a Pennsatucky flashback episode to make up for her…

I commented on the last episode (as that was the most egregious so far to me, and far less than this week's), but it really does seem like the awful cartoon stuff is becoming more prominent this season. It only really seems to be affecting a few characters so far, though (I'm really enjoying Suzanne, Taystee, Red, and…

I'm quite tired, but I had opinions to express, so I was going to post a comment on this article detailing my thoughts on the positives and negatives of this episodes (one of the better episodes of the season, although still uneven). Fortunately you've pinned down pretty much every one of my comments, so that's made…

I get that, and I see reasons to hate them and the system that keeps people like them damaging lives, but the writers didn't need to keep cramming in the Jewish references to make them into bona fide Nazis. That - and the obligatory, ridiculously unjustified sexism - pushed that scene into cartoon territory. The areas…

There's still been some awesome stuff so far this season, but I'm seeing the awful stuff start to rival it, particularly in this episode. For one thing… Laura Prepon is just not that good an actor. She really struggled during the emotional stuff with her mother's funeral, and didn't really improve during the rest of…

"Seems like a lot of Jews in here. Who are the Jews?"
"I know, it's confusing, right? We used to have them wear the Star of David, but we stopped doing that after World War II. I don't remember why."

I know there's some confusion over the matter (people referring to violence in general between different ideologies etc as 'terrorism'), but here he was using violence to incite fear and hatred to further his agenda. I think 'terrorist' still applies here, even though it's without the backing of an organisation.

Wild stab in the dark… The Sun?

You've pretty much nailed my issue with the writing of Healy - he veers between 'flawed and pitiable' and 'cartoonish villain' as each episode requires. One of the most frustrating moments of the first season, for me, was him walking away from Piper about to be shanked by Pennsatucky. Out of nowhere he became a man…

Ditto. It's a while since I watched the previous seasons, but I remember growing quickly fed up of her, as a fairly irredeemable antagonistic character. But she has been amazing in these four episodes so far, and this was a great exploration of her character, past and present. They seem to have really eased off the…