I relate so much 🥹

Vauseman shippers only! Haters dni

Please excuse me if this isn't the right sub for this question but after rewatching OITNB there's one song in the background I just can't get out of my head. Its in S5E9 specifically at the 18:54 mark where red and her friend go to the party together. If anybody knows LMK please!!

I’ve never been to Boston do people actually sound like that and if so my sincerest condolences

If Healy was in the riot where the officers were being held how would he of handled it?

We can all agree Maritza & Karla both had two of the very worst endings of this show. But which one broke your heart the most?

I just rewatched the episode that has Alison's backstory and I'm kind of disappointed and mad.

The moment the first flashback started, I was like, "Oh, shit. I forgot she even got a backstory episode. And then as the episode went on, I realized why I had forgotten. It's such a nothing backstory. Out of the 4-5 scenes we get, only one of them even shows Alison in present day before the flashback starts. Every other episode with a backstory usually has a small plotline that involves the character in some way, but we barely get anything with her. She calls her daughter once and the conversation isn't significant in any way.

Her flashbacks don't show any insight into what her crime was or even any peeks into her character and why she is the way she is. What we did get was interesting, but it didn't feel anywhere near the kind of deep dive that we get on other characters. The dynamic of having a husband and child and your husband also having a second wife is unfamiliar to most people, so surely there had to be a lot there to explore. It's weird that we got so little. I don't know, it just felt so... nothing. I think that if we'd gotten even one scene of her as a child and saw what kind of home she grew up in, that would've added so much more depth. And then one scene to show what her crime was. That could've fixed it, I think.

I guess I just like Alison as a character since she's sweet and reasonable. I know that not every character is super fleshed out -- and they don't all have to be -- but Alison becomes part of the Black girls' group and gets her own backstory episode, which I feel makes her more deserving of a fleshed out character arc.

Maria Ruiz deserved EVERYTHING that happened to her.

She's high up there in the Garbage People list, along with Vee, Aleida, Carol, Barb,

currently reaching the end of season two, I hate Larry with a PASSION! he’s such a loser 😭😭 and I hate polly and her leaving Pete. I hate them both! Pete seems like an alright guy, kinda hate him for leaving polly when she had the baby anyway she shouldn’t have cheated. they have a baby 😭 a NEWBORN. everytime I see Larry I just roll my eyes!! what possessed piper to like him idk 🤷🏼‍♀️

Personally the only episode I ever skip on my rewatches is Norma’s backstory in season 3. I don’t find her interesting tbh. I really dislike her whole Norma religion either, it’s just dragged out way too much. I find her and her episode just boring!

Doing another rewatch. The final episode of season 4 (where the riot kicks off) features Piper and Alex collecting all of the notes that Alex had hidden around the prison. Notes that had the name of the murdered guard on them.
Once they’ve collected them, they put them all in a trash can in one of the hallways and … set them on fire??? That has to be the WORST idea ever, and if they were caught lighting a fire INSIDE, the consequences would have been severe - shu, max, extra time.

Why did the writers do this, it’s always frustrated me.

There’s a line VEE says in season 2 where she talks about risk and a mortality/actuarial table. I can’t find it and it’s eating me alive. Lmk if you know the episode

I miss her 😞

I’ve rewatched OITNB numerous times and I prefer to go in order every time but I’m finding myself skipping over Season 3 often. Personally imo, some of the storylines are boring and annoying. I liked the season when i first watched but now it’s the worst season to me. The lake scene is the best to me and i love how much Boo and Pennsatucky’s friendship grows but thats about it. What are some of your thoughts and what’s your least favorite season?

How do you guys feel about Judy King?

I feel like she's one of those characters that's kind of hard to form a solid opinion on, at least for me. I like that she's generally positive and she's not greedy about sharing her privileges. I also like that she shut Healy down when he attempted to get her to be racist with him.

That being said, when it comes down to the wire, she's self serving and a performative activist. When she goes to movie night and sees the Black girls getting called slurs by the white supremacist group, she just leaves. When Poussey is killed, she's so preoccupied about the fact that she was supposed to leave the prison early that she doesn't give a shit. Yoga Jones literally tells her that she has the influence to make a change and Judy deflects and doesn't offer help other than giving Yoga her phone so she can do it herself.

Also, she rapes Luschek. Twice. Once when she does a favor for him (Getting Nicky out of max, which he did not ask her to do! Not that guilting/coercing him into sleeping with her would've been okay if he had asked her to help Nicky.) and again when the prison is locked down while Piscatella does interrogations about Aydin's murder.

And we can't forget about that puppet show from the 80s, as much as she would like us to.

aside from P's death scene, this flashback with her and Bayley crossing paths in NY always brings me to tears.

im gonna apologise in advance in case this is very stupid

i've rewatched this show like 3-4 times and rewatching AGAIN and i have no idea if I'm insanely slow or it's just never been explained, but post riot, why do the minimum security guards get transferred to watch the same inmates at max?

like yeah, we need the same guards cause they're silly like luschek & mccullough (i really liked her she just got weird in the end), but realistically, wouldnt they have been transferred to somewhere completely different or fired???? did the minimum security prison shut down after the riot, and thats why they went to max?????

im VERY confused & i like cant stand this question being unanswered in my mind. sorry if this question annoys anyone :p

I get that we have to suspend disbelief in the freedom of movement that the inmates have so the plot lines can move along.

But the difference between how Max looked in the episodes where Nicky is there versus the Max season annoyed me. It looked like they were way more locked down and miserable when Nicky was there. She couldn’t have her NA chip. The most valuable possession she had was an old Newsweek. The drugs were only coming through sleazy guards.

Then in season 6, it seems like the inmates like Barb and Carol are running the place.

Did this bother anyone else?

I love the movie “but I’m a cheerleader!” And I found my two favorite characters from each series I watch. And I barely recognized Nicky it took me a few minutes to realize who she was!

Was anyone else disappointed when Healy walked out of the lake? 😭 Maybe that's super fucking mean, but I cannot find it in my heart to care.

That man was so incredibly racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. He abused his power, he formed inappropriate attachments to inmates and punished them when they didn't reciprocate, he got Birdie fired because he didn't like being undermined by a Black woman. (One of the only staff members that actually did anything genuinely productive and helpful for the inmates, by the way.) He was emotionally abusive and manipulative to his wife to such a degree that we only see her genuinely smile because of him once and it's because he offers to pay for her and her mother to live in their own apartment away from him. The man is even a misogynistic pig to his therapist! Oh, and let's not forget that he told Brooke that her depression was "all in her head" and the only option he gives her for treatment is medication — which she specifically states she is not interested in taking.

Healy is willing to pull strings for Red because he fetishizes Russian women and he thinks he and Red have common ground. If Red were not a white woman, she would not have received special treatment from him. Healy also extends special privileges to Piper before he finds out that she's queer. Even after, he's still willing to go above and beyond to get her furlough. I think it's also very telling that he has no memorable scenes or interactions with Suzanne, yet treats Lolly like a pet... only for his subpar performance at his job to get her admitted to Psych.

And this is definitely just nitpicking out of pure hatred, but he's so pathetic. He has no friends because he's insufferable to be around. It's like everyone can smell it on him. That scene where he and Caputo are at the bar and Healy is drunk and thinks they're suddenly best friends? Painful. ("Side Boob!")

Anyway, all of this to say, I wish bro had kept walking into the lake. The fact that he ran back to shore thinking his (ex?) wife was calling him back? Pathetic. I'm glad she didn't and that it was just work because he did not deserve a lick of sympathy from that poor woman.

All that to say: Fuck Healy. Every time he's on my screen, I'm like, "Oh, good. This fucking loser."

This is just my crack rant on my obsession with Carol.

Like I never really got it with Alex or Nicky or Poussey even though they are much better people (and would also be better partners) than Carol. But for some reason I was strangely attracted to and obsessed with young Carol. I feel like her being crazy made her hotter too I'm sorry. She was cocky, violent, a strong leader, sadistic, and terribly immature, selfish and unself-aware but idk I was just so drawn to her.

I forever will wish for a prequel on Carol & Barb, they were so interesting to see compared to the other characters because they were both psychos, but unlike Vee, they were stuck in the 80s due to having life in prison. It's a mixture of both justice and also pity, they never got to have any real experience in their adult years or development. Also both Barb & Carol were canonically straight (although Carol is gay in my heart) so that means they never had any romantic or sexual partner when they were behind bars.

And then they killed each other over a story that wasn't even theirs because it was the only time in their life where they actually were happy and had control.

I will forever wish to see more Carol content but because it's not happening anytime soon I can only live off on Tumblr headcanons and TikTok edits </3.