Season 4 gets off to a great start with no annoying backstories getting in the way of all the funny, moving and dramatic happenings in Litchfield Prison itself. That's what I hated about Season 3. The way the show was moving back and forward, in and out of prison, disrupting the storyline into small disconnected segments that were hard to follow.
Why does everyone hate Piper including apparently the show's producers? I know Chapman is self-possessed and self-delusional but I know plenty of people like that, the British Royal Family for instance. Taylor Schilling hardly made an appearance in this episode and I really missed her with her super expressive face. Chapmans story line seems to be in limbo at the moment. Is Schilling on holiday or something?
In an episode with a lot of funny lines my favourite one comes after Lolly apparently kills Kubras hitman and Kubra demands proof of Alex's demise. So Lolly psyching up Alex for a photo by demanding "shirt up, bra down, floobies out, face slack, dead girl porn, Cosby dream shot". So cued into pop culture.
Again I am deeply disturbed by the brutality and number of male guards in a woman's jail. The image of a six foot six bearded gorilla staring into the face of a diminutive Gina and demanding answers I find deeply disturbing, but that emotional churning is what OITNB is all about.
Graham. UK.