I'm starting to think they are venturing into unrealistic territory with the guards as well. The scene was well acted and I could feel Maritza's fear but somehow I just don't buy that he would go out and buy a baby mouse and collect a bunch of dead flies to torture her. It's not as though anything happened between…

I have really thick, long curly hair and I always think about how terrible it would look if I were at Litchfield. It was nice to see Blanca with two eyebrows as well!

My main takeaway from this episode is that I need to go to Shake Shack for a burger ASAP and I won't even have to give anyone a handjob for it.

Her punching Aleida would have been so much more satisfying but I'm not so sure Aleida wouldn't have punched her back.

I guess we'll find out in the next few episodes but I got the sense that S(k)anky and the skinheads feel that Piper was holding them back by not letting them become a full on hate group so I buy that they would let her leave without a problem.

Nicky is back on drugs so I believe her being awful is intentional.

Nicky was hauled off to Max relatively early in season three and Daya didn't give birth until the end of the season.

I don't think her showing growth after a trauma negates that she was previously a villain. Obviously the writers knew she was the bad guy and seriously unlikable since we saw her being snubber by almost everyone leading up to this episode and Piper herself admits here that she probably deserved what she got.

There was overlap between Daya's pregnancy and Nicky being in Max. The easiest way to keep track of time is based on the Holidays celebrated. Season one began in October and then there were special episodes or at least plot points that featured Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day and Mother's Day.

It wasn't just Boo though. With things so awful at Litchfield lately, a party for Nicky is a big deal so people would have to go out of their way not to mention it in front of her. I have a hard time believing everyone just forgot to tell her about it. If anything, people tolerate her but very few would say they like…

Not even to go into business, she just asked if her new friends could wear the panties since Piper already lost a few other people. Essentially they would still be Piper's employees. It's possible they eventually would have demanded more money but that's not clear.

Not acknowledging her in a comment is not at all the same as thinking Ruiz is innocent. People have strong feelings about Piper for multiple reasons including her sense of entitlement deriving from her privileged background, her narcissism, the way she has treated basically everyone she's interacted with, I can go on…

I may be wrong but I believe most, if not all clinics that provide abortions also provide multiple methods of birth control.

I understand where you are coming from and I can only imagine how difficult her life was with such a terrible mother and having no real chance at a successful life. However, she had access to the clinic where I am sure they discussed birth control with her after every procedure, so she should (and did last season)…

Oh, ok. I didn't remember that at all.

In addition to the fact that the inmates are paying for their crimes, I think a large part of it, for me at least, is that not only did we know and like Pennsatucky, we actually watched the whole thing happen from the seemingly friendly interaction when they first got doughnuts to the degradation in the park and…

I think that's a great point that the inmates are paying for their crimes while Coates is not but are you suggesting that Tucky had no choice but to take a shotgun into an abortion clinic and shoot a woman because she insulted her?

"damn near everyone" makes it seem like there are only a couple of exceptions but there are several that are pretty much straight villains.

Yes, not being able to see her daughter is absolutely the crucial component to Ruiz being willing to get involved in a gang.

Speaking of Alex's paranoia…it must have been cathartic for Alex to open up about the murder to Piper for multiple reasons, not least of which is that she was right about Kubra trying to have her killed.