Episode Discussions List

Anyone else notice in the later seasons her swastika/window scar is on the wrong arm? It drives me crazy lol. You'd think Taylor would have said something?

I just started watching, currently on S2 and I must admit I'm feeling a little frustrated. I keep rooting for these 2 and everything falls apart instantly. Alex keeps lying. Like when she said that she didn't name Piper but she did or just now when she said not to name that druglord boss and Piper obliged but Alex ended up telling the truth. Does this the betrayal ever end? Are they ever a normal healthy couple?

mine is definitely pipers panty buisness I hate it sm 💀

Mine is either the episode where Lorna breaks into Christopher’s house (“A Whole Other Hole”) or the one where Leanne and Angie force the guards to put on a talent show (“Litchfields Got Talent”)

It was fun to see how cheng thinks, how she acts and how her past made her strong. Take it or not, but if anyone tried to start anything with cheng, it would've been disastrous.

Is there a part of max we haven’t fully seen yet? When Nicky was there during season 3-4, we can clearly see that there are parts of max we haven’t seen. This includes the cells where Sophia was when Vazquez told her Sister got compassionate release.

We can assume that “A-block” is Ad-Seg and we know about B, C and D block. But is there an E-block we haven’t seen or am I missing something?

Can we all just take a minute to discuss the awfulness that is the face that Piper makes when she cries. It actually makes me slightly mad

It’s not a bad season but I would be lying if I said it was enjoyable for me personally. This season definitely isn’t the worst (season 7) but I don’t understand how any one can see it as one of the best. It was filled with an annoying amount of Piper and Maria selling panties which made both their characters much more unlikable, racism from the nazis,and it was unnecessarily dark compared to previous seasons (pennsatucky’s assault, Piper getting branded, pousseys death, Nicky relapsing, Suzanne being forced to fight kukudio, Sophia being put in the shu, Maritza being forced to eat a literal rat, mistreatment of the inmates etc). The new guards are definitely one of the worst parts of the season. Me hating this season might just be bias because most of my favorite characters were going through hell but this season wasn’t all bad. Judy king was pretty funny, I liked a few of the new characters ( Abdullah mainly) and the finale was definitely top 3 if not the best.

How TF was maritza allowed to drive the fan after getting arrested for grand theft auto?!? I get they needed a cute girl for the plot (bc the creepy CO) but why did they choose her??? she literally went to prison for GTA.

I love this show so much. Started watching it last month and as soon as I finished started it over from the beginning lol. I love the characters so much and even though there’s lots of tragedy it’s still very interesting to watch. Tbh if I stop watching I’ll be devastated and miss seeing everyone on screen.

I love rewatching shows, mainly because I see details that I missed the first time. Are there any cool moments or scenes or details that you noticed while watching OITNB that you think maybe others may have missed? Share them here!! 🧡🖤🤍 I’ll start: I noticed that everytime Piper uses the phone in the first few seasons the crying woman in the blue gown is always in the background

Google said three days but that sounds wrong to me

basically the title

idk some of the scenes just seem a bit too coincidental, most of all being gloria's abusive boyfriend's and vee's deaths

it just seems so random of this comedy/drama about prison to be like "oh by the way, santeria is real and you shouldn't fuck with it" lol

I've rewatched OITNB but now I am looking to analyze it for one of my sociology courses. Upon some research and reading some criticism of the series, I see a review claiming that there were instances of the show being racist by citing instances where the term monkey was used against Black inmates. I can't seem to recall if this occurred. Does anyone remember this occurring in the series?

I just wanted to talk about what it was like in Hohenfels, Germany as an Army brat.

She was in Hohenfels, Germany when she was a teenager and it showed her being in a relationship with a German girl whose dad was a high ranking German soldier.

I lived in Hohenfels, Germany when I was 16 in 2003. There were 250 kids at the middle/high school grades 7-12. We did not go to the same school as the German kids. One of my neighbors was a half black American and half German kid who went to the local German school, and I hung out with his German friends. We converted an abandoned shed into a hangout area and would drink and party there.

But the rest of us whose parents were active duty American soldiers or contractors went to the American high school on post.

I got in trouble at school because of things I wrote in my LiveJournal and they almost sent me back to the states. But instead they had me go get a psychiatric analysis and the German guy who did the analysis put his hand on my knee and told me I was a gorgeous girl. Didn’t really appreciate that. They let me back in school and I had to go to ASACS (Adolescent Substance Abuse Counseling Services) and I had to write a letter of apology to the German community and the American community.

Anyway, I really liked Poussey’s story. She reminded me a lot of one of my friend’s little sister. She was a few years younger than us and she was in my Spanish class. She spoke German and I think she spoke French. She did really well in Spanish class, even if it was being taught by a Polish woman. She died over 10 years ago in a car accident I think. But I like to think she was actually the influence for Poussey.

this episode was so emotional, for fig, the ICE, Nicky, literally everybody. hurts the soul a little. i feel so just sad, you know?

Someone refresh my memory as it's been a while, why didn't Piper's parents pick her up from the bighouse? Did they disown her or something?

LMFAO, and just imagine if Cal was this super hardcore anti-establishment guy, still living in a tent off the grid in the woods when he took her home. I wonder if she would have missed prison!!! After a few weeks I think I would have. Electricity, running water, a solid non-leaking roof over our heads......we take these things so much for granted.

Me personally I think that Chang is probably the best character in Orange is the New Black I think this because she's more resourceful than anybody else except for Freda and she's got people on the outside that will help her I know that because of her oranges she's also got a smartphone

Aleida just turns my fucking stomach, seriously. Not only did she obliterate her kids' lives with her "IDGAF YOLO-mom" lifestyle 🤮, but refresh my memory as it's been a while since I watched: Did she ever offer a sincere, completely heartfelt, tearful apology to Dayanara for ruining her beyond repair? Daya ended up the way she did 95% because of fucking Aleida.

Hell after what she put her daughter through, Aleida should have gotten down her knees, sobbing and begging for forgiveness!

oh my goodness. the actress who played suzanne was absolutely amazingly talented. i hope she won many awards.

the way that she pulled off playing a developmentally disabled girl, so well. so elegantly, totally not cringe, gracefully, respectfully. just wow.

i truly the entire show felt like suzanne was actually cognitively the way she was, never did i feel like it was some cheap acting. the writers and actress must have spent so much time around people with similar issues as her character.

she was so dang lovable. when i was in residential treatment i knew a few girls a lot like suzanne. gosh. just so precious and fragile, too pure for this world honestly!

the fact that there are real suzanne’s in prison. that do not deserve to be there, makes me so sick. the men and women who are mentally so sick, and aren’t getting any help.

i love how in the show they demonstrate how the “psych” part of the prison, was not place you wanted to end up. that it was like a nightmare, like torture. because some people who are uneducated about prison will say things like “prison does have psych care” and what they don’t know, is that “care” is sedating a patient and giving them little to no freedom because it’s easier to just keep someone locked in a room where they can’t kill themselves, rather than actually helping them. all the prisons care about is making sure you don’t die on their watch so they don’t get backlash.

anyone know any sort of organizations or reform that is based on helping the developmentally disabled and psychologically unstable in prison such as suzanne? i know most in prison have mental health issues of course, but im talking special needs. i would love to volunteer or help somehow but i dont know how to help

im most of the way through season 3 (my first watch ever, went in completely blind) and oh my god im so over healy

like it's gotten to the point where when he has a scene and red's not in it i watch enough to get the gist ("hes mad about suzannes book gotcha," "he's saying something homophobic ok," etc) and just fast forward through

i understand hes not supposed to be especially likeable but they're putting him on the screen sooooo much and i just cant do it any more lol

am i insane for this? does he get better (not a better person or whatever i understand hes an antagonist or whatever u wanna call it, just more bearable to watch)? does the whole fanbase agree with me that the show would have been better if he just got fired after season 1?

lmk :3 ty!

Part of the series plot is Taystee getting falsely convicted of murder, and Daya shooting a guard who later dies. In real life they would not be in gen pop in the last two seasons. They would be in either the SHU, or a dedicated Supermax facility like the one in Florence, CO (The supermax unit for women is located at FMC Carswell). Take the example of Thomas Silverstein, who killed two fellow prisoners, and another allegedly at USP Marion, which from it's opening in 1963 to replace Alcatraz, until it was redesignated as medium security, was basically the dumping ground for prisoners the lower security facilities couldn't handle, including a "control unit" which was were the murders took place. What really set things off was when Silverstein killed a guard, with another inmate doing the same thing the same day in the control unit, and both were strictly punished. They were shipped to different facilities and their security level raised to "no human contact". They spent the next 36 and 20 years in solitary confinement respectively until they ultimately died. This also caused USP Marion to be in permanent lockdown from 1983 when the murders took place, until it was redesignated about twenty years later, and was later the inspiration for Supermax units like the one in Florence. The only reason the two them them were not executed was because the federal death penalty was not in place at the time, and would not be reinstated until 1988, so this meant a lifetime of isolation and solitude. This would have been an interesting concept to explore, with the both of them having to deal with life, and deal with a trial in Taystee's case. What do you guys think?

On my 18,000th rewatch and I just noticed in S7E6 "Trapped in an Elevator", while Taystee is writing the letter to Monica about her real parentage, she pauses for a moment and we see her looking at a document titled "Inmate Information Inquiry" with Cindy's mugshot on it before she continues writing. It's very blurry, but in the top left you can see Cindy's birthday listed as 2/13/70 - with this season dropping on 7/26/19, that would've made her 49 YEARS OLD when she got out! Did anyone else think she was way younger than that throughout the series? Or do you find this to be a believable age for her? Or believe it's a case of the crew using some random number thinking nobody would notice since you can barely see it anyway? I'm curious if anyone else has ever noticed this!

I’m rewatching and I forgot about that disgusting and disturbing scene. I totally forgot about it but those guards are disgusting human beings and they shouldn’t have gotten away with that. For those who don’t remember, Gloria and Maria were forced to kiss in 6x1 after finishing to “prove that their cool”.

I genuinely forgot how disgusting Hellman is. How tf will MAX go now that he’s the warden.

I’m watching season 1 episode 12, Tall Men with Feelings, and I noticed when the staff are meeting to talk about stuff with fig (9:37), there’s a poster in the background hanging on a bulletin board with other posters and the one that caught my eye seems to be Drew Barrymore, but I can’t find the picture on the internet anywhere, or the poster itself. It says “Today is made for you”.

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Freida is clever, strong and a badass. Unlike others, she doesn't let her age slowed down. From hiding bodies to making her own bunker without letting anyone knew about it is just something that you don't see often..