Bread Cant Never Be Toast Again
A painful season of Orange is the New Black ends with a cliffhanger that's going to have me in suspense for a solid year.
Orange is the New Black Season 4 Episode thirteen is also mayhap the near perfect tribute to a deceased character that I've ever seen on telly.
I desire to start with what is apparently a flashback for Poussey, merely what could mean something else altogether.
This is a character who is beloved. She'south arguably one of the nearly likeable characters on the show, and to watch her die the way we do on Orange is the New Blackness Season 4 Episode 12 is almost unbearable.
But rather than only show how everyone reacts to her decease, which is too done incredibly well, we're given a tribute that makes it even more emotional.
I said it's "apparently" a flashback, but I call back these scenes could easily be interpreted equally existence Poussey's version of Sky. Her journey to New York is filled with wonder, and information technology's the most amazing day she'southward always had.
Things happen in such a manner that they don't feel entirely real, but the biggest clue is the first line of the episode.
Is this the autobus to the underworld?
Poussey
Regardless of how yous translate it, though, it's cute to see Poussey then happy and then free. It'due south satisfying, too, because it feels like the audition gets a little closure, peculiarly as she smiles at the photographic camera in the final shot.
I'm getting goosebumps but writing about it.
Await, I'g heartbroken over losing that character, but it wasn't done without purpose. Her death is a catalyst for everything else that comes side by side, and somehow, I don't call up everyone would be that passionate well-nigh the loss of any of the other inmates.
And guys, they're pissed. As they should be. What happened to Poussey is unthinkable, and these guards are just manifestly evil.
Unfortunately, Bailey is one of the only guards that isn't evil, yet he's a product of the system, and he's the one who kills Poussey.
Now, he's ruined, and that's tragic, too.
He wouldn't have killed someone if he worked at Best Purchase. He'd yet be happy puppy guy if he worked at Best Buy.
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The fact that Bailey is so young and is, ultimately, a decent homo is what makes things fifty-fifty harder for Kaputo. Kaputo doesn't want to pigment Poussey as a villain, which is what he's encouraged to do in order to maintain the prison's reputation, but he doesn't want to pain Bailey as a villain and ruin his life, either.
What he actually wants is to tell the truth, and for a moment, I thought that'southward what was going to happen.
But instead, he takes the cowardly route, and chooses what he believes are the lesser of two evils and paints Poussey as someone unsafe.
He doesn't fifty-fifty say her proper name.
Taystee manages to listen to the unabridged press conference, and when it's over, she incites a riot.
All bets are off, and after all that'south happened to pit the inmates confronting each other this season, they're finally meeting against the guards.
It becomes the perfect tempest, with Judy King caught in the center, and then that gun.
You know the rule. If you come across a gun in the outset of a story, you lot can damn well be sure it'southward going to be used later.
And creepy, evil Humphry has managed to sneak a gun into the prison house, only to have that very gun aimed at him by the cease of the episode.
It's poetic justice. The problem is that it's Daya who'southward belongings the gun, with everyone auspicious her on to shoot the bastard.
If she makes that decision, her life is over. Her mother has just been released from prison house, and she doesn't have all that much longer herself. Plus, let's non forget she has a child out at that place.
I'thou nervous about information technology.
That cliffhanger is too beautifully done, with the photographic camera spinning equally Daya points the gun, holding a position of power over this horrible man. The music plays, and it fades out.
Information technology fades to Poussey, looking out over New York City, happy and full of life. Then, that smile at the camera.
Other Thoughts:
- Judy King gets what she deserves. Rather than sneaking out hands as she hopes she volition, she's caught right in the middle of the anarchism, belongings her box and looking terrified.
- Suzanne breaks my heart in her attempt to experience empathy with what Poussey went through, piling books on top of her chest in hopes of understanding what it must feel like to non be able to breathe. She's so desperate to have that empathy that she about dies herself, crushed by a bookcase.
- I love the way Red tries to protect her prison family unit, and I dearest her sense of loyalty.
- I had gotten the spoiler most Poussey before I really watched it happen (thanks, Twitter), which gave me the hazard to notice a TON of foreshadowing for her death. If you can acquit it, go back and re-watch the season to see what I mean.
What did you recall of the flavor finale of Orangish is the New Blackness? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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