The lake also serves as a safe space for new relationships to blossom. Aleida seems to take the miracle as a sign to wordlessly hug her daughter. Gloria andįlaca forgive each other and Red and Norma make peace. There’s moment after moment of reconciliation, as though the lake were a baptismal font, washing away grudges instead of sins. Of physical expression that are frowned upon inside prison walls. Instead, the inmates use another language - they hold hands, hug and kiss, all the the types What follows is pure joy as the inmates take advantage of their moment in the sun (and sand). The fence repairmen bolt at the first sign of trouble and the lack of staff means that they prisoners are unstoppable. After processing this forĪ moment, Norma takes off at a gallop and soon all of the inmates in the yard follow her lead. She notices that, in the midst of construction, the men in charge of repairing the hole in the yard fence have left a large passage open to the nearby lake. After being taken to task by Poussey over Soso’s suicide attempt, Norma has disbanded her group of followers and is walking Vicious crime lord Piper is the most interesting Piper the show has ever seen and it’s curious that the more that Piper embraces this role, the more she seems freer than she’s ever been.īut nothing the show has ever done can compare to the last 15 minutes of this episode.
Had always proved impervious to greater threats, and it forces Piper into situations where she must be vengeful, whether its punishing Flaca for her disloyalty or framing Stella and getting her sent to max for stealing It curiously ruins her relationship with Alex, despite the fact it She is at turns ruthless and clueless, but always learning and not afraid to be unlikable in order to ensure the project is a success. Too often coming off as hapless and casually whiny in previous seasons, Piper has found her purpose in her illegal panty-sellingīusiness. Perhaps most interesting is Piper and her transformation throughout these 13 episodes. If you try your best to do a good thing and make the correct decision, is it all negated if you bring harm on someone else? I don’t know the answer to that and neither does “Orange is the New Black”īut it’s more than happy to delve into in the uncertainty.
But the finale sees Cesar’s apartment raided by the Drug Enforcement Administration and all of the children, includingĭaya’s daughter, given over to protective care.īig Boo and Pennsatucky come up with a supposedly foolproof plan to get the latter off of van duty with her rapist, but the fake seizure puts another innocent woman, in this case Maritza, in the path of a predator. Aleida went over Daya’s head in the previous episode andĮnsured that the baby would go to Cesar and not get adopted by George Mendez’s mother. Then there are the situations where you do the right thing, only to put someone else in harm’s way. The audience should be disgusted at him for giving in, but how can we fault him for bailing on a battle sure to be lost. Only benefited him, resulting in the walkout of the senior prison guards. Though he fought the law throughout the season, for example, Caputo finally stopped fighting the good fight for Litchfield and took a promotion that One question raised over many of these episodes is how much does a person have It is, to crib Black Cindy’s Judaism conversion speech, something you have to figure out on your own. Must we watch out for others at the expense of ourselves? And when we fail, when others fail us, can we forgive them? Can we forgive ourselves? This is the heart of not just season three, but the whole of the series: How much She goes on to say when we fail, God forgives us, but she’s not sure people can ever really forgive each other or themselves. It is Litchfield, yes, but these are things that were inside them all along. Prison for bringing this out in them, exacerbating the worst, most selfish parts of themselves and Sister Ingalls agrees.
But Sister Ingalls has no absolution to give, not just because she’s Sophia’s friend, but because she too did nothing to keep Sophia from her fate. In it, Gloria seeks solace with Sister Ingalls in an attempt to confess her sins and receive absolution for her part in There is a scene in this episode that captures the whole of season three in a single exchange. Read all of our “Orange Is the New Black” recaps.