![]() ![]() The focus of Episode 2, “Looks Blue, Tastes Red,” is all on Taystee. As for the trial? Piper remains dishonest, against her lawyer’s advice, but Alex is truthful and sells her out - leaving Piper alone. Piper learns that she didn’t kill Pennsatucky (she had spent the entire time since then worrying about it). She tries to tell her mother but her mother flips it to being mad at Piper.īack in the prison, there are flashes of the pilot episode as Piper spots Alex in the yard. When she does rebel by getting tickets for a rated R movie ( Dazed and Confused), she spots her father kissing another woman. As a child, Piper always did the right thing - refusing to jump out the back door of a bus, as is tradition in her school, when even the bus driver is OK with it. In Season 1, Piper’s flashbacks were all her as a young adult and generally revolving around her two main relationships - with Alex and with Larry - but the Season 2 premiere goes all the way back to her childhood. In this new setting, we meet a pile of new characters who Piper has to bunk with, most of whom are obsessed with cigarette-carrying cockroaches that they race for pennies. The montage when Piper gets to the prison is a succinct way to show how quickly the weird becomes second-nature: the ID photo, the fingerprints, the strip down, the squatting. It’s another prison, though this time she has to remain in the same room except for meals and one hour of recreation (there are men around, it should be said, but they are mostly inconsequential). Suddenly Piper (and her full bladder) is thrown into a van and then into an airplane, still unaware of where she’s going until she glances out the window and realizes they’re landing in Chicago. ![]() Season 2 - which I will be recapping two episodes at a time, since I’m sure most of us will have finished the season by the end of the day - starts off with a jolt. It’s been a while since we’ve last seen Piper and presumably a while since she’s last seen anyone, as she’s been locked in the SHU busying herself with using her breakfast to create “art” on the walls. She’s sitting on a plane after being pulled out of solitary but has no idea where she’s going and no one will fill her in. “I think I’ve moved beyond stress into something more deeply disturbing,” Piper Chapman says in the Season 2 premiere. ![]()
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