To answer several of your questions above: they have, and show, DVDs in many real prisons, so it’s no stretch characters in the show would still have seen at least a few. That appeared to be the joke—that Badison didn’t have many other movie references cued up.

“a new Prisoner Ranking system to prioritize long-term…

Uzo Aduba is such a one-note performer. The Suzanne character, in every scene, cycles through the same set array of gestures, facial expressions, and voice tones like clockwork, while she rattles off dialogue that is what Jewish writers think a “funny” version of a mentally challenged black person would sound like.…

“she’s still responsible for the mistreatment of these women, and just forgetting that feels odd to me.”

Why would we have to forget it? Because she’s a bad warden, she shouldn’t also be depicted as a human engaging in a romantic relationship? I don’t want to see cartoon villains who sit twirling their mustaches and…

“I realize the show has zero sense of time and it’s somehow more or less present day despite the fact that Piper’s sentence isn’t over yet, but damnit I’m never going to stop complaining about it, tough cookies.”

You should. It’s very lazy writing on their part, missing an opportunity to explore something of the way…

“Wonder if they are still friends.” Do you really wonder if, after one put the other in prison, they are still friends? Really? See, the TV show is where they met again long term, fell in love, and got prison married while having adventures like smoking crack and prison rioting, because Hollywood is utterly ridiculous…

“It would be funny if it wasn’t putting all of these women at greater risk.”

“If”—the women are pretend, and it’s comedic material placed in a show to make you laugh. Do you have like a line where you say to yourself “I’d better signal to readers that I’m able to laugh at *this* pretend thing, but too woke to laugh at…

I thought the actress playing Carol was the strongest performance of the season (a lot of authority effectively conveyed nonverbally), but the actress playing young Carol was the weakest performance of the season.

“Nothing about this situation is funny, and the show is not doing enough to acknowledge how messed up it is, and I want Coates and Dixon and all of the guards to disappear forever.”

Anyone else tired of so-called “reviews” that really just say “I wish this were a different show about different things?”

“That statement feels wrong: the show’s central thesis since the first season was that Litchfield was a form of hell”

That is a silly statement. The first five seasons have been a mostly lighthearted version of a minimum security prison, with a lot of comedy and a substantial turn toward lesbian fantasy. You’ve lost…

They are “trolls” for literally just linking to Gunn’s own Tweets? In what way, shape, or form is that “trolling?” Words have meanings, you know; you can’t just redefine them that way. 

Kavanaugh received almost unanimous approval from Republicans and Democrats while being confirmed for his current position, but his even being nominated to the Supreme Court is somehow this incredibly dramatic marker of the need for RESISTANCE. Seriously, how can people be so full of shit?

You think the secret sympathizer and good guy would be made deliberately reminiscent of Dr. Peterson? Interesting theory. But I don’t see any physical resemblance, myself.

“We can root for and fear for these women simultaneously, because that version of The Handmaid’s Tale knows how dangerous it is to be a woman and alive at the same time.”

Note: it’s significantly more dangerous to be a man. Men perform the more dangerous jobs in much greater numbers, and are victims of violence at…

Gilead has the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of civilian hostages, perhaps more, who would be under the gun. I doubt the Canadian Army or anyone else would attack directly while that condition obtains.

“If you’re now a Sydney Sweeney fan”

I was going to say something very similar. “Gilead is rough” is really not enough for a show like this to be saying week after week. This is the consequence of launching with the book material, but not delivering on the complexities in the book.

Streaming shows don’t usually report their ratings; not sure if we’d know if the audience was plummeting week to week, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

“Oh, was that tedious? Try being in labor for 12 hours.”

No. TV is supposed to be a heightened reality, more entertaining than life. Telling me to go do something grueling so I find a slow episode of TV more entertaining by comparison is an abusive idea.

You “gasped with joy” at hearing Oprah Winfrey’s voice? This must be sarcasm.

Your criticism makes no sense unless you’re assuming the shells were birdshot, but then why assume that?