Snapchat's been around since 2011 and though I don't have a smartphone I remember friends using it (and me thinking it was pointless) as far back as 2013. It takes a while before things catch on. I learned about Twitter in an Interactive Media class in college years before people really started using it.

Regardless of how I may feel about season 5 as a whole I found this to be an incredibly stressful episode. I was so worried about the trigger-happy riot squad walking in on Taystee (or anyone) holding the gun down in the pool that I actually covered my eyes not wanting to repeat the emotional trainwreck of having to…

I wouldn't call leaving a mess hall to go outside into a field surrounded by a barbed wire fence with armed guards in towers looking down on it "freedom".

I didn't know she was his kid and I've never seen her outside of this role but I think she plays a completely believable 13 year old.

Yikes.

I thought the tone shifted quite a lot for some of the episodes in S2. I felt like we were seeing the same characters in a different show as the structure changed quite a lot. There are also points where it's more of the same. If you're that concerned about your time being wasted though I'm sure it'll be no big loss…

Since so many women go to jail for killing abusive husbands, I've always assumed that Frieda's husband got what was coming to him. I also think killing a cop has the potential to be a righteous act, a thought contextualized by a show that has seen cops that were also rapists and murderers. With a body count as high as…

Oh, you mean she should have been in a supervised environment/group home instead of living with her sister? It sounded like you were saying that after the incident she should have gone to a home, not a prison; her parents would have no power in that decision.

Hm, maybe you're right! We never actually see her in a relationship on the outside! Although when she and Boo were having the sex contest and she tried to get a guard, she went for a lady guard and not Luschek (even though he may actually have gone along with it).

I know there are black and brown people who, in the context of shadeism, see East Asian people as white but I really would be surprised to see White People embracing them as such. Race is a social construct alright but every time "Caucasian" is used it's a little reminder of how the United States embraces it's own…

The people of southern Italy are European and irrelevant to this point. The Caucasus region includes Iran, Armenia, etc—Asian countries. I'm not familiar with any notion of the "white" race that includes Asian people of any complexion.

Ah, that would actually explain why Maria would choose to bring in drugs after the threat of an extended sentence, as part of a plan to frame Piper. I wasn't able to rationalize the logic behind that decision.

You ask this question like everyone lives quietly in the suburbs, like living next door to a drug dealer is supposed to be jarring. (It's not.) The implication here is that living next door to people selling drugs is unacceptable but living next door to a Nazi-sympathizing megalomaniac is somehow better. I would much…

Alex was being strangled, then Lolly came in and (seemingly) killed her assailant. How did Alex "[get] herself into that predicament"?

Ah okay; Suzanne's 20 at her high school graduation though.

No, you're right! It's Chekhov's other gun!

I think even if a more villainous character had gotten the gun the questions would be the same—whether someone other than the intended victims will end up dead or if something will interfere with the situation, like Caputo rushing in or some previously unheard voice of reason tackling Daya to avoid impending doom.

This is off-topic and I don't mean to undermine the sentiment of this comment but Caucasian doesn't mean white. The association of that word with whiteness has indefensibly racist origins and is ineffective and inaccurate, since half of the Caucasus region is in west Asia. Many Caucasian people are brown.

I don't know how I forgot to factor Nicky's lesbianism into that momentary delusion. I guess I see them as having a genuine friendship where they seem to get each other, and I can see that continuing on the outside.

It feels like we would see more about that guilt if Suzanne had caused her sister to be in prison.