orange is the new black season 1 episode 3

Maybe there will be a showdown after all?

Red sees right through her, and says that her plan to keep her head down is bullshit. Even though she just complimented Gloria’s cooking, she tells Red that the kitchen is “no bueno” with her not in it, obviously playing both sides. When she went to Sophia to get herself glammed up I thought we were gearing up for a war, but it turns out they’re old friends. Red sort of freaks out when she first sees Vee in the bathroom. When she gives them to Vee, she sees Piper (Dandelion) in the room and flips out Vee tells her “I see you,” and makes her feel important by telling her she’s “a garden rose, and that bitch is a weed.” On the one hand, it’s about time someone valued Suzanne as more than the resident weirdo, but why did it have to be Vee? She’s already using her, and I don’t think that train is going to slow down anytime soon. Before long, Suzanne is practically electrocuting herself to get a pack of old cigarettes out of an electrical box. But Vee seems predatory, always rooting out the most disenfranchised people to do her dirty work. Vee sees her vulnerability and takes advantage of it right away by taking an uncharacteristic stance - she makes Suzanne feel like the most important person in the room instead of overlooking her the way other people do. It was sweet to see that she wears her hair in bantu knots because a nurse at the hospital did her hair as a kindness to her when her sister was born.

Suzanne seeks out mother figures and women to adore. But maybe that’s the balance of parenting you want to push your kids to succeed and make them feel like they belong, all at the risk of putting them in harm’s way.

She clearly didn’t want to sing that song at graduation, and it resulted in an epic, face-slapping nightmare that could have been avoided. Her parents want her to have everything so why are they so obtuse when it comes to her obvious mental illness? We didn’t dive into her backstory too much, so it’s possible that they’ll address it (and last season when they visited her they asked if she was on her meds), but they also seemed to let her suffer. Her mother is fierce about protecting her when she dropped her off at the sleepover party her little sister was attending and the mother of the house gave her the side eye, she launched into a tirade about racism and giving undervalued kids a chance. Suzanne’s life isn’t necessarily sad, just troubling. Watch This Supercut of Every Vagina Reference on Orange Is the New Black

Orange is the new black season 1 episode 3