Reviews like this make me feel that this series pulls off thrilling, stylish action sequences with beautiful artwork and cool music and no one cares any more because the show has been doing it for years. Every review becomes more of a meta-review about what kinds of episodes it should be doing instead, or what the…

You must have forgotten your pimp hat!

“I don’t know if that’s an artistic choice or a financial one”

Unless you think they don’t pay themselves, the answer is clearly that it’s an artistic choice.

Money isn’t Gus’s motive. It’s revenge vs. the cartel. This is clearly shown on Breaking Bad.

“living legend, Dan Rather” Dan Rather is in disgrace and Redford isn’t. No comparison.

The show is still excellent; James Franco is still the worst part; there’s still an awful lot of James Franco, pound for pound.

I want to say this is the best episode of the series. Certainly the direction is such that it is hard to imagine improvement. It is almost as if the series steps further and further back from Jimmy as he digs this hole deeper, and observes him more and more dispassionately. And it is a smaller, sadder, more human…

Yeah—I saw a boner, but not a joke.

“their agenda” being anti-child pornography? That seems to really hack you off.

FYU Miller is a Jew and would have zero interest in “white power”—as those types don’t like Jews. Is this really not obvious to everyone??

“That wasn’t the path that the real-life Piper Kerman took, translating her experience being incarcerated into advocacy for prisoners’ rights.”

The real Piper Kerman has been wiped out by a sort of hagiography. I was following her story at the time. She and her oh-so-wacky Jewfro-ed boyfriend started a cray-zy hip and…

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…