But there was a certain amount of "I have control and integrity, unlike those sluts!"

Both movies are pretty bad, but I'll put Ending over Scorpion, just because it has Tiffani-Amber Thiessen in her underwear.

It's more the other way around. "Deadbeat" explicitly refers to a father who isn't providing financial support. So while a dad who's always traveling for work isn't around much, there's no sense that he isn't providing.

I think he definitely wrote in needing to hear the truth, which is that his relationship is over and he needs to file for divorce immediately.

I swear, half the time I see something where people are all, "Why is no one talking about this?", it seems to be about something that everyone is talking about.

Right. If Caputo is irredeemable, then the "best" person left in the system is Coates. That's pretty horrifying.

True. But it's clear that's the happy moment she has just minutes before her arrest.

Is Stratman the one who's mostly on his gameboy or whatever?

I recently read a comment from a comic book writer who had been writing Daredevil, and someone got in his face with, "Man, you hate Daredevil, you never give him a break." And he thought, "If I wrote a book about giving Daredevil a break, you wouldn't want to read it."

Yeah, I think Judy would have gotten Poussey a job. Not like a, work-in-my-direct-orbit job, but somewhere in the lower ranks of her organization? Yeah, I think so. It would have been good post-prison PR for her.

If anything, Caputo's interactions with Taystee cement the one decent thing about him that's a constant, that clearly separates him from most of the other guards and everyone at MCC: he sees the inmates as human beings who made mistakes/did bad things, but they are still people who are in his care and he fundamentally…

Yeah, it's Piscatello's leadership that gives it the extra damage. Like, someone else would have put a stop to Blanca's table stand and admonished the guard. Piscatello supported and encouraged it, enabling worse things to happen.

Judy, at the core, just wants to minimize her discomfort and get out as soon as possible, maintaining the appearance needed for good PR. Vee wanted to TAKE OVER, anyone else be damned.

If you eat it, you get all those weapons.

In this case, I think he was trying to do the right thing, and genuinely believed that Piscatella and the rest wouldn't blatantly go against direct instructions. Which they did the second he left.

Man, this sums up my experience with Caputo, doesn't it?

Biases to see older women as sweet.

Prison, and specifically Piscatelli. He encourages their worst.

There are so many people to feel sorry for in this episode, yet my sympathies drifted to Suzanne's sister. Poor woman left her alone for ONE weekend…

It sort of did. It was a "shutdown" that gave them time to act, so the penultimate episode involved trying to safely move the prisoners. But still: end of the antepenultimate involved the makeshift prison suddenly being an issue.