Vee is up to no good and there are new shades of Caputo in OITNB’s fifth episode.

Best scene of the episode?

When Healy goes to a bar and sees Caputo playing bass in an over-the-hill-hipster band called Side Boob.

For all his politicking, Caputo is the quintessential middle manager.

Tough to do your job when you are wading through a river of shit.

Sewage has begun backing up into the showers in the Latin dorm.

But not before Mendoza and the kitchen crew crash the ghetto bathroom.

This causes friction between the black girls and the Latinos.

The kitchen staff get their shoes stolen, and the black girls get their food salted.

Now that is suspicious.

Vee does not strike me as someone who rolls over and shows her belly.

No, Vee is much too clever for those shenanigans.

And may I just take this moment to say GODDAMN Lorraine Toussaint is flawless!

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Its true.

On the outside the tough head of the kitchen was routinely abused by her boyfriend.

She saved money by running a food stamp scam at her bodega, which ultimately landed her in prison.

And those candles she always swears by?

Speaking of loveless marriages, Healy is learning Russian in an attempt to win his mail order brides affections.

Good luck with that, buddy.

And by doing a better job, I mean actually doing his job as a counselor.

In a shocking move, he agrees to process Pipers request for furlough.

And why does Piper want furlough?

Because her granny is dying.

Dont worry, the scene is actually charming and hilarious.

What other show can make you laugh at the prospect of a dying granny?

Missing Pollys pregnancy, losing the soap business, heck, losing Larry.

All of it has been hard, but the death of her granny has been the worst of all.

And all the other prisoners can relate.

Poussey was in prison when her mother died.

Ruiz had to give birth and return to prison; she watches her daughter growing up during visitation.

Litchfield is like purgatory where everything, good and bad, seem to hoover just out of reach.

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Rating:

4 out of 5