![]() Larry is still an unknown element for me. Piper and Larry instead selfishly launch into a guilt trip about how they were “counting on that money” from the business. She entirely glosses over Polly’s revelation that she’s getting ready to have this baby, and prioritizing her family seems to make the most sense to her right now. The more she adjusts to prison, the less we see of her privilege, but it’s still there, and this is classic Piper: She offers little in the way of trust to her business partner, feeling that she can do a better job of running the business with hardly any communicative tools and a need to obscure her incarceration from the people she wants to do business with. When Polly and Larry come to visit, she gets news that Barney’s has concerns and Polly is thinking of pulling back on the business since Piper is not around to help out Piper offers to talk to Barney’s and smooth things out through a complicated three-way call. I’m surprised that worked Piper isn’t particularly inspirational, and Red can smell bullshit from ten miles away. Red is pissed at Piper when she sees everyone else roving the grounds, searching for the chicken, but Piper reels her back in with an inspirational speech. Soon everyone is looking for the chicken when they see Red out in the yard the Latinas think it is stuffed with drugs (“My boy Potato Chip told me they used to bring in dope by putting that shit inside birds”). Or is her husband somehow still in the picture? How does she get this shit into the kitchen? Is Healy oblivious or turning a blind eye? Who are her connections on the outside? If her prison stint is at all related to her tit-punching the wife of a well-connected Russian mob dude, you would think she wouldn’t have many friends left. This tiny prize is a nod to Red’s power and influence both inside and outside of the joint. The best part of this scene is almost a throwaway line: Red offers a box of Biore strips as a reward to the lucky chicken grabber. Since it’s Red, there’s also a backstory about how the chicken magically escaped slaughter and appeared to Red in a dream wearing a top hat, but the main idea is that this chicken needs to be caught. After they run down the gamut of what type of bird it could be (quail, pheasant, pigeon, spruce grouse, the aforementioned American bald eagle), Piper confirms that it was, in fact, a chicken, and Red loses her mind with joy at the thought of fresh Chicken Kiev. How did it get into the yard? Why is Piper the only one who is able to lay eyes on it? Does Lorna actually think American bald eagles are strolling around upstate New York? When Piper tells Lorna, Norma, and Gina that she saw a chicken, they mysteriously insist she tell Red. The chicken is both real and an allegory, a symbol of impossibility and freedom. Later in the episode, Larry reveals that she’s been in prison for three weeks I wouldn’t say she’s fully adjusted, as her wide-eyed stares and frequent obliviousness often discloses, but it looks like Piper is at least coming to terms with the fact that she’ll be here for a while. We get to peek at the routine Piper mentioned to Nicky in the last episode, how waking up is a struggle of realization between where she actually is versus where she wants to be. Has someone started an OITNB book club by now? They’re reading so much good stuff on this show. ![]() It’s Sunday at the Litch, and Piper is creating her own religious experience by chomping on some peanut butter and granola and reading Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn against a tree in the yard. ![]() It helps that the person having the most sex right now is also the funniest, and Nicky seems to revel in the comic relief that sex provides. The stats about assault in prison are thoroughly sobering, but I’m glad that this show is using sex as a way to give us moments of humor and a deeper connection to the ethos of the major players. ![]() Have we talked about the treatment of sex on this show yet? It is hilarious and marvelous.
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