Orange Is the New Black Season 6 Review Episode 1
'Orange Is The New Blackness' Season vi, Episode ane Recap: "Who Knows Improve Than I"
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Over the class of Orange Is The New Black's v seasons, we've seen the inmates of Litchfield Penitentiary lookout man plenty of telly: Toddlers & Tiaras has long been a catalyst for remote-related disagreements; Poussey saw TV come to life when celebrity chef Judy King showed up in orange; during the three-24-hour interval prison house riot that consumed the elapsing of season 5, the inmates watched life become Telly on the national news. Merely gone are the days of the TV room because gone are the days of Litchfield Minimum-Security. When flavour 6 opens up on Suzanne watching a Television set hallucination through the glass of an isolation jail cell in Litchfield's Maximum-Security prison, the transition from the extended limbo of season 5's riot and into the unknowable new commencement of Flavor six is put into stark clarity.
These recaps volition be taking Orangish Is The New Black Season 6 one episode at a time, and in the season vi premiere we don't know any more nearly which fashion that limbo pendulum is going to swing than the inmates waiting for their trials and interrogations. But if it looks like hell and quacks like hell…
Off her meds and traumatized by the riot that concluded at the hands of a SWAT team armed with pepper bullets and lies, Suzanne has turned inwards to a fantasy world where she imagines her swain Litchfield inmates as channels on a Tv. It'due south a meta meta earth out hither in the OITNB premiere, but unlike many Television set series the struggle to establish all the foundational information in their pilot episodes, Suzanne's journey into television establishes what's to come in the episode within its get-go five minutes. In an otherwise rather bleak foray into the unknowns of mail-riot life, Suzanne'southward imaginary channel flipping acts a vibrant overture for what'south to come as her imagination colors the women of Litchfield in assuming and varied symbolism.
The commencement channel is Nicky, ever the comedian, equally a crude-humored puppet at a piano — CLICK — on to Daya in a combative modernistic dance with ii guards — CLICK — there's Frieda as a magician using the King of Hearts, aka, the "Suicide King" to slit her wrists and produce more than cards — CLICK — Cherry equally "your favorite Soviet clown," waxing poetic almost how the monster has been defeated alongside her sidekick, "Deprival the Crocodile" — CLICK — Piper as a contestant on Jeopardy responding to every single category with "Where's Alex?" until the existent Alex Trebek finally snaps, "I'chiliad correct hither, bowwow!" — CLICK — a contentious battle friction match between Mendoza and Ruiz — CLICK — Cindy in a trench glaze, seductively crooning in blackness and white about being "a secret agent on a hugger-mugger mission," with an extra emphasis on keeping-serenity choreography.
Television receiver time is rudely interrupted when ii guard dressed every bit Oompa Loompas arrive to have Suzanne — dressed every bit Dorothy consummate with sparkly reddish Keds, of course — out of her cognitive cell world, and dorsum into reality. Suzanne spots Frieda slumped over in her own jail cell…with her wrists slit. Downwardly the mode, Daya and Piper talk through the air vent: Daya almost how the guards may accept broken a rib in today'southward scheduled beating, and Piper cruising past that nightmarish update to theorize about where Alex might be. Daya tells Piper she needs to worry about herself because there are only a handful of them in these isolation cells: "We're the focus group; they're gonna focus on blaming our asses for the riots."
And they conspicuously need to blame someone, every bit evidenced past the interrogation of Suzanne throughout the hour. The Oompa Loompa guards (now de-imagined into a normal set of COs) who arrived in Suzanne's prison cell were there to take her to Mr. Bellamy, the human being investigating what happened during the anarchism on behalf of…someone. Suzanne's lawyer is insistent that she needs to be put back into "Gen Pop" to reestablish her routine earlier she'll be able to requite a credible statement. Given that Suzanne is nether the impression her mother is as well in the room with them (spoiler: she's not!), he'south definitely right. Only, showtime, Bellamy wants to know what she remembers from the raid…
In a new twist on a familiar method, the interspersed inmate flashbacks in the series premiere are to less than a calendar week ago: what happened to Suzanne when SWAT was descended upon Frieda's puddle-bunker moments after flavor 5's final scenes. Between pepper bullets and the inmates surrendering, we get a quick glimpse of Alex being dragged out unconscious. But when the room is called "clear," Suzanne and Cindy are all the same hiding under a pile of boxes.
Cindy begs Suzanne to stay quiet as four guards render to the bunker carrying a huge, heavy tarp. Last season, Piscatella was shot in the head by a trigger-happy officer's pepper bullet, and at present the witnessing officers have brought him back to the bunker to phase the scene as though the inmates killed their guard. The officers notice a gun — "praise Jesus, someone's on our side" — shoot bullets all over the room, including one in Piscatella'south head, and come up with a story about "the former lady, or perchance one of the black ones" going on a shooting spree.
"I don't think that happening," Suzanne tells Cindy once the guard leaves. Always perfectly exasperated nether pressure, Cindy hisses dorsum that it didn't happen, and they have to go every bit far away from that bunker as possible, and then that they don't get caught upwardly in the bunker casualty narrative these officers are at present going to be spewing. You tin can see how, for someone in the state that Suzanne is in, it would be hard to keep her story straight. Cindy tells her both in flashback and through I'm-watching-you-eyes every fourth dimension Suzanne passes her cell that she needs to go on quiet or they'll be in big trouble.
Finally sent to the Psych ward for a necessary evaluation of her mental state, things go a little…shall we say, criss-cantankerous, for Suzanne. First she spots Lolly, which is fun and sad and empty-headed and heartbreaking, and all the OITNB things. When Lolly lets out a few claps, as Suzanne sees it, a full-on functioning of the "Cha-Cha Slide" is triggered, consummate with DJ Casper on the turntables…
Thankfully, just when things are starting to look very permanent for Suzanne down in the Psych ward, her funky-funky-funky hallucinations are overridden by the reassurance of her mommy-hallucination, and she'due south able to tell her evaluating doc that she just needs to exist properly medicated: "I'grand not crazy — I am chemically imbalanced."
Things aren't going groovy for the other Litchfield-ers who aren't even being interrogated yet, and can only sit in their cells and look. A few of the Max guards harken back to the bumbling beginnings of Bell and O'Neill, but nearly seem more than along the lines of sadistic riot-casualty, Humps. Daya, known effectually all parts of the prison as a "guard-killer" is clearly beingness beaten on a regular basis. A baby-sit goes into Taystee's cell, makes her stand, then repeatedly hits her in the stomach with his billy for no reason. After a speed-walk-chase that turns into a run-chase between Mendoza and Ruiz during their concrete activity time, two guards accept them in the showers, handcuff them together and force them to make out to "make up." It's atrocious and degrading, and whatsoever hope of a rehabilitated future is looking further and further away…
Except to Red, of course, who's riding loftier off slaying the "monster" from her Soviet-clown speech, and seems content that her "family unit" all made it out of the riot alive. She'southward got a new cellmate with a faint Boston accent, a broken arm from fighting, and a very subtle nickname: Badison. Red attempts her usual laying down of the law for her girls, but when Piper asks Badison in the shower line if she saw a tall brunette while getting her arm cast in Medical, Badison manages to trip Piper so badly, she's knocked unconscious. "She wanted to Medical and find her friend," Badison smirks. "She owes me one of you ask me."
Red feels differently. Back in their prison cell, Cherry-red gives a Carmine-voice communication to terminate all Ruby-red-speeches, serving as a perfectly inverted-epilogue to the episode'south start. Suzanne, living blissfully (if not sustainably) outside of reality, painted the grave circumstances of her friends from Litchfield in the fictional technicolor of television. Residing in a parallel reality of her own making, just a week after the riot, Red describes the strength of "[her] girls" to Badison: she says they accept "the forcefulness of family" while Daya is shown lonely, being beaten by guards; nosotros hear that they take "sharp minds and deep reserves of power" every bit Blanca picks at her toenails; "the strength of having faced a demon and triumphed" as Taystee sits defeated and alone in her cell.
Just, finally, Red finds some footing on her final point: "And nosotros accept fucking zilch to lose."
Later an emergency anti-psychotic shot, Suzanne heads into the interrogation room for 1 terminal risk to tell the story Cindy has told her over and over is the correct one to tell anyone that asks. Suzanne wasn't in the puddle bunker; she was with Cindy in the closet around the corner where the SWAT squad ultimately found them, she tells Bellamy. With her argument on the record, Suzanne thinks she "can go home now." But as we come across her arrive in GenPop, fretting, "This is not home," I tin't help only think of The Cinematic Orchestra's song that closed out flavor 5; the terminal thing nosotros heard before arriving in the isolated, clinical, uncertain confines of season 6.
This is a place where I don't experience alone / This is a identify where I feel at home…
I built a home, for y'all, for me / Until it disappeared, from me, from you…
And at present, it'south fourth dimension to get out / And turn to dust.
THAT'Southward A SHOT, INMATE
- That'south some pretty nighttime stuff to stop on, so I'd exist remiss if I didn't signal out the premiere's positives, like finally seeing which beloved characters from OITNB's behemothic cast have been returned to us in flavour 6. Notably MIA thus far: Alex, Pennsatucky, pregnant Lorna, Boo, Janae, Norma, Flaca & Maritza… and a frightening many more.
- Badison is titular-ly bad news, clearly, but to exist off-white: Piper was excited was excited to find herself in Medical where she could ask around for the missing Alex. No word notwithstanding on the excitement about her now missing tooth though…
- During outdoor time where she has to sit in a cage, Daya gets slipped a Snickers from an beholden inmate named — look for it — Daddy.
- There are and then many all-star Uzo Aduba moments to choose from in this Suzanne-axial episode, just my personal favorite was her holding upward three fingers when Bellamy said "fuck" for the third time.
- Cindy, still a star Judaism pupil, uses her one telephone call to ring upward Rabbi Tattelbaum…from whom she asks for a lawyer and learns that "saying 'shyster' is off the acceptable listing — I got you!"
Jodi Walker writes about Television receiver for Entertainment Weekly, Vulture, Texas Monthly, and in her pop civilization newsletter These Are The Best Things. She vacillates between New York, North Carolina, and every TJ Maxx in between.
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