Friday, May 6, 2022

Orange Is the New Black 5.02

Fuck, Marry, Frieda

Daya wakes up. The gun is gone. She tries to pretend like she still has it but eventually she has to tell someone and eventually Ruiz figures out that it's gone.

Ruiz organizes an event in the chapel. They strip search the guards. Vause doesn't like it. Chapman tells her to keep stay put but eventually Vause can't take it anymore and leaves.

Taystee, Black Cindy, Watson, and Abdullah continue to keep an eye of Caputo and Josh. They keep an eye on the internet hoping their video will go viral but it doesn't in the way they hoped it would.

Red puts up Piscatella's pictures all over the prison. Piscatella shows up. He isn't embarrassed of the pictures. He can't get in because the doors are locked.

Humpries is still in the infirmary with Suzanne and Kukudio. He tells them about ways to kill people. Kukudio blows air bubbles into his IV and he has a stroke. Flaca and Maritza take him to the chapel.

Berlin gets the back story spotlight. Her father was convinced that the Russians were getting ready to invade. He prepped her for the big event. She learned her lessons. In the present she uses the skills her father her taught her to trick the two guards who have her and a few other inmates locked in the kitchen. The other inmates take the guards to the chapel. Berlin sneaks down to her secret hideout beneath the prison.

Some of Ruiz's crew talk Taystee into bringing Caputo and Josh to the chapel. The episode ends with a big group picture.

Thoughts

I'm still enjoying this season. I really wasn't sure if I would. It doesn't feel like it is dragging. I think that was my biggest concern.

Some of the characters who got little moments in the previous episode get less if any screen time in this one. Angie, Leanna, Nichols, Morello, Doggett, and Boo all fall into this category.

I don't think Berlin's hideout was shown previously. I think she may have made some mention of what got her convicted in a prior season but her backstory flashback in this episode is all about her childhood.

It still isn't clear who took the gun. How long can Ruiz stay in control without the gun? How long will Linda be able to keep up the pretense that she is a prisoner? So far no one has pointed her out but I can't imagine that will stay that way. One of the prisoners must have seen her before, maybe Taystee? It looks like all of the guards have been rounded up by the prisoners except for one, Coates. I don't think he was seen in this episode. Could he be the one that had the gun?

I'm still curious to see how things turn out. I'm still fine with taking 3 months to watch a season which takes place over 72 hours.

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