I binged the show the Saturday after it was released and slowly read the reviews one or two a day thereafter. It's working fine for me although the disparity in comment volume compared to the old system is noted.

I feel bad for Jason Biggs. He just can't rise above American Pie-level stupidity, even in a one off cameo.

Even if they figured it out why would they stop her from running through a hole in the fence during a prison riot? At that point what are they protecting by taking her into custody?

Agreed about Taystee rejecting the offer. What made it so much worse was knowing that Bayley had tried to turn himself in but was so inoffensive to the officers he was surrendering to that they didn't even ask him any questions before releasing him from the drunk tank the next morning.

The tattoo is seen and discussed in season 1. She gives a full explanation of it to the nurse during her intake into prison (which I think is in the first episode of the show) and we see Alex putting waterproof makeup over it as part of a disguise while Piper's preparing to do the illegal act of traveling with the…

I hadn't thought of that, but we know that at a certain age members of their community are given the choice to walk away and join the modern world. There'd be plenty of people aware of Leanne's arrest that could report back to her family when they heard about the riot.

That's hands down my favorite mini-arc!

I think the problem was that there weren't enough interested parties. Once Maria switched teams no one was really invested in hostage maintenance except the two women guarding them around the clock.

This is discussed in the earlier seasons. When the prison had more reasonable guards there was an arrangement such that when Suzanne got out of hand it fell to those around her to calm her down, otherwise she would go to Psych. It was also implied that her parents (who are rich and white) had lawyers pressuring…

Is there really anything that could happen in 2 episodes that would put the season on the level of those that came before it? 11 off episodes is a lot to recover from.

What has Doggett done to make her undeserving of sympathy at this point in the show?

I'd have to re-watch but I was listening for a difference in voice to figure out whether or not this was the same actress and in the end I still wasn't sure; I think the casting is perfect either way.

Right, the flashback suggested that he should be able to empathize with some inmates and only want to punish the abusers.

Healy's a stronger character though. I hate him but I was actually interested in his character development.

Piscatella's villainous monologue completely sets up an inmate-betrayal backstory; it's beyond me why they would give us a flashback that doesn't satisfy that setup. I feel bad that I spent the whole flashback waiting for Wes to do something bad only to learn he was the victim in more ways than one!

It wasn't clear to me from Piscatella's flashback that he'd murdered the attacker; I was pretty shocked to find evidence confirming that claim given in the comments here. Obviously the prison was set up for that form of torture already and condoned it as punishment; my read was that the guy was left under the water…

Wow. That makes the fact that he's still working as a prison guard utterly unbelievable.

I'm confused—it did not appear to me that the shower torture led to that prisoners death. I thought Wes, the boyfriend, died from his attack. Why would we think otherwise?

I know, just joking. That video game came out less than a month ago :D

I love this joke. He's more realistically portrayed as a villain in a single episode of The Office than he has been this season.