Disagree about the pure comedy.  I thought it was a wonderful swirl of laughing at it but also finding some moments of beauty and truth.  Like Helen says, what if it’s bullshit AND true?

“You can’t make this shit up!”  Said the writer in their own script.

I come here from the future just simply to say: I think that song is effing incredible.

Yes. I really loved this episode; it was great to see Cole’s honest takes on what he loved and hated about Alison, for example. All so on point. The sex was gratuitous and eye-rolly and the women objects who delivered it like nurses were characters from another era. But the rest of the episode was just rapture, the…

Thank you, yes, I like watching the characters, and this is the show we have. I like these reviews mostly, but they don’t seem to be into the show we have. I find this season so far way better than any season since the first. It’s funnier, the music and visuals are even stronger, the acting is amazing, the amount of…

I don’t know what y’all are talking about. Alison is beautiful. Maybe we’re just not used to seeing actual human women over 35 portrayed as attractive on TV shows ... especially in HD.

Oh I thought her phone conversation (“I did a terrible thing, I’m sorry.”) was before the coffee date.

That’s not how I read her frustration. She was bluffing when she said let’s move to Miami - she can’t take that job, and that was the point of the move. She was upset that she sees a future with him being a millionaire back with Alison, and herself deported. She’s very very afraid of that, and it seems inevitable. She…

I read it as the show becoming “woke” and exhibiting what assholes people are when it comes to race. It was a very “Get Out” line and I was in favor of its complicated inclusion.

I visit from the future to say, for the record, here in my latter forties, I am continuously dumbfounded by the degree to which different people understand the same situation. I heartily recommend you quiz people on what happened a few days or weeks ago, or on what they think you meant by something, if you said…

Okay then: Litchfield is on the Island. Time moves differently here. They keep picking up TV shows and movies from the past and the future. Every time someone thinks they can leave, they have to come back. It’s not clear whether the authority figures are just playing a game with our characters. It’s possible that one w…

I, for one, came here to say Simpsons did it

I think I get something I haven’t seen mentioned (though I’m not done reading comments yet): I think OITNB picked up a bite of the Stranger Things apple, and wanted to create a Heathers-like 1980s remorseless killer comedy-drama episode. And they sort of succeeded at that. Pump Up The Volume, a little. Repo Man. It…

Still skeptical. BLM was an active force at the time. Here’s from the gods of wiki:

Hmmm, I checked it and you’re totally right.

Though I have to say, young Badison was believable to me. She made a pretty good TV teen, I thought!  

“Linda has no idea how to actually deal with the problems happening at a corporate level, and Fig has no interest in dealing with those problems in any kind of ethical or comprehensive way. It would be funny if it wasn’t putting all of these women at greater risk.”

Guess they’re just taking it one day at a time.

No, it was definitely like this:  Nicky tells Red in a totally fakey mcfake phone call that she’s going to go down for 70 years if she doesn’t throw her under the Bus of Justice.  Red thinks, Red says “it’s OK”.  Nicky then (off camera) signs the thing and next thing we know, Nicky is in gen pop with a lot of guilt.

Hmm, it doesn’t bother me, but maybe I wasn’t watching closely enough. It seemed to me pretty clear that the drug smuggling had been long ongoing. Daddy had been getting drugs from the guard who was getting them from the cheese. Daddy organized the cheese prank. Cheese is gone, drugs are lost. It’s been like 4 days…