As a real criminal lawyer, it's the system itself that protects police and COs and allows them to violate the law with little accountability, It's not some undeserving and unprepared, "few bad apple" individuals, although really bad ones do exist and are protected by their unions and by both dems and reps in publicc…

I think you'd find most folks in prison have some form of mental illness, once you include depression, PTSD and anxiety disorders. It's more like who is merely neurotic and who's psychotic, and how severely.

Keep going.

The show has lots of characters who are in for obvious state law crimes. Would be too boring if all the criminals in this prison were in for federal crimes.

The prisons in California are for the profit of the guards and their bankrupting pensions. Almost all dinero goes to them, resulting in the overcrowding and lack of rehabilitative programs. Head of NY State Department of Corrections just indicted - had nada to do with private contractors. Most prisons are bad, and…

Thanks, so I didn't have to write this.

Una Gabacha, pero no una gringita.

It seems only yestereday Ruiz was the poor, sympathetic pregnant girl who only spoke espanol. That was quite a character flip for her without any development.

The reviewer is insane if they think it's ok to believe Piper deserved a branding.

I think it's the writing that's different.

I don't know that it HAS to, but I think it will. Maybe it gets triggered by some world event that makes their view of the motherland go south. You would agree, right, that momentum is pushing for a discovery by Stan about who they really might be? Resolution of that situation is suicide, criminal prosecution, turning…

Double agents is MO I'm predicting.

I'm wondering when they will turn - defect to the US. You know it's gonna happen at some point, probably at end of penultimate season, if not sooner. What does everybody else think?

It's easy for us to get caught up rooting for Elizabeth and Phillip, so good on you for this accurate and witty translation of events.

Sounds like the NYPD after they shoot an unarmed person.

Ditto. Didn't look like Stan's abode at all.

Is it just me, or does Pastor Tim look amazingly like Phillip in a Clarkesque disguise. At first I thought it was the Jennings' in disguise, and wondered why they'd be in disguise at Epcot.

He's in the throes of the psychotic conditions he enumerated he was diagnosed with. He feels desperately rejected and wants to perform in front of Norman.

This fits with my assumption during Breaking Bad viewing that it was a stroke.

I always assumed it was a stroke.