I have never seen a more inspiring drag queen than Tamisha. The elimination was a travesty.

Every year when Emmy nominations are announced and Taylor Schilling’s name is on the list, I die a little inside. There are so many great actors in this series and neither she nor Laura Prepon are even close to making that list. Danielle Brooks is the lead and heart of this entire series. (I would also definitely give…

I am shipping Nicky and Shani, more than ever did Nicky and Lorna, who I also shipped

I am so glad they were able to bring Diane Guerrero back for the final season. She has had a lot of other roles since this show gave her her big break —I also love her on Jane the Virgin, Superior Donuts, and especially Doom Patrol—but she will always be Maritza to me, and because of the story’s real-life parallels…

“if there are people out there who have tried to separation fact from fiction and stuck with this show despite any misgivings, and now find a deeply empathetic and persuasive case for fighting back against the immigration policies being implemented by the current administration.”

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I realise it’s a huge cast but the fact that Danielle Brooks or Adrienne C Moore have never been singled out for individual awards attention is a bigger crime than anyone’s committed in Litchfield [well, maybe not the murdery ones].

Yes and yes. I can’t speak to the accuracy of the show’s general depiction of the criminal justice system (it probably takes a lot of liberties,) but I’m friends with someone who was detained by ICE. She’s an immigrant here on a student visa who was giving 2 mutual friends a lift - she didn’t know they were…

To your last point, she is being sent to a country she has really never been to, where she knows nobody, and without the minimal due process and defense that even the poorest, most downtrodden Americans take for granted. You think the deck is stacked against poor people? She wasn’t even allowed to see her cards in…

I don’t know the answer to your particular question, but I do know that there is a substantial portion of Americans who believe that illegal immigrants are not entitled to the same rights that citizens are. So if it were to happen, I can believe that you would be up shit creek with no way to get help. Imagine if you…

That 18-year-old US citizen lost almost 30 lbs while in ICE custody. Yes, they are detaining people for existing while latinx. Meanwhile, Canadian, Australian, and Western European visa overstayers (and note that visa overstayers vastly outnumber “illegal” border crossings) aren’t being raided and detained. This isn’t…

Well, the show’s wonky timeline explains the first objection: it was 201X when the show started, and so it’s very possible that in the current wonky timeline version of the show Maritza would have qualified before committing a felony. (I didn’t know about the felony distinction, so I appreciate that clarification).

...I just got that episode title (way too late I’ll admit). Oof. Brutal, yet accurate in today’s fucked up world.

But Aleida is fun stupid and Dana is annoying stupid. These episodes funniest scenes involved Aleida: the sex scene in the car and the dinner scene with her other daughters, who are clearly way more like Aleida than Dana. A big part of it for me is how Elizabeth Rodriguez manages to give Aleida an almost Wile E.…

The season kicks into gear, were getting deeper into the ICE storyline now, AND Badison is gone? This was an A if I ever saw one.

The most important character in terms of themes of injustice and lack of privilege, and of audience empathy and narrative, is Taystee, and has been since at least that early episode about her meeting her birth mother.

I suspect if they had randomized them and sent them to “real” corrections facilities, they would have learned what it’s like to be treated like less than nothing.

That McCullough/Alex scene was just heart breaking as it was the moment when McCullough simpy finally gave up. Out of all the guards, she has always been the most internally torn and traumatized by the previous events, so her decision to just play the game instead of even attempting to do something that feels right.…

Petition to change “Ugh, Larry” to “Ugh Badison”. 

Nancy and Jonathan’s fight scene in the car was really well done on every level. Really tonally consistent character justification for everything they both said. Jonathan is, of course, correct that a family of Nancy’s economic status is privileged to not have to think about how much capitalism sucks until it sucks…