Orange Is the New Black 6.06

State of the Uterus

Daddy finds out that the stunt she pulled with the rats has interfered with the drug supply coming into the prison. Daddy gets the backstory spotlight.

Baddison organizes a little payback for the rat stunt and has some of the inmates on her work detail poop on C-Block's laundry.

Linda turns to Fig for help. MCU has earned some bad publicity. It is tanking the stock price. Linda needs to do something about it. 

Luschek is put in charge of the recreation room and finding a new host for the prison "radio" show. Another correctional officer, who is not participating in the pool, gives Luschek a hard time for doing so.

Aleida goes to see her kids, who are currently in foster care. She can't get them just yet. The older ones aren't happy to see her. 

Red signs a plea agreement that gets her out of the murder charge but gets 10 years added to her sentence. The charge she pleads guilty to is organizing the riot.

Taystee pleads not guilty to murder. She finds out that the ACLU has decided to take up her case. 

Flaca looks for someone to help her host the Litchfield "radio" show. The first person she approaches in Morello, but Flaca quickly sees how that won't work. Nichols nominates herself for the job but Flaca isn't interested. 

Chapman and Vause talk wedding plans. Chapman wants to get married while they are still in Litchfield. She is scheduled to be released in 9 months. Vause still has 4 years to go on her sentence. 

Mendoza reconnects with Burset.

Flaca strikes up a conversation with Cindy. They are getting along so well that she asks Cindy to be her co-host. 

Carol isn't impressed with Baddison's stunt in the laundry. She wants action.

The episode ends with Taystee being moved to gen pop where she is greeted like a celebrity by her fellow inmates.

Thoughts

Doggett, Coates, Dixon, Ruiz, and Caputo were not in this episode. The investigators seem to have dropped out of the story. This is the second episode without them after four with them. No word in this episode about what happened to Ruiz. Barb finally made her first appearance, in the present. She is played by Mackenzie Phillips. I did not recognize her but I don't know if I have seen her in anything since One Day at a Time, four decades ago.

I think Caputo is the one who contacted the ACLU and Back Lives Matter. 

This was an okay episode. I would say it is middle of the road. There isn't a whole lot here that I love. I can see them moving the plot forward. I'm shrugging my shoulders and hoping that the quality of the show picks back up again in the next episode.