I wouldn't call it misery porn, but it is really fucking dark. I wouldn't have been able to binge watch it. An hour a week was all I could handle.

To me some of the comedy was a bit much. I was ok with the Red and Flores stuff and Flaritza, but the meth heads and some of the other comedy was over-the-top and felt like forced comic relief. On the dark side, Piscatella was too much - the show generally feels pretty real to me, but his storyline did not. It felt…

Given her background, her ambivalence makes so much sense.

To me, the theme there is just how broken that poor woman is.

I wasn't very sympathetic to that character. Metal cuffs - even in labor - are not inhumane when you're out-of-control violent - whether you're a baby-eater or a check-kiter.