Throughout the season, her fantasy erotica series “The Time Hump Chronicles” gave her notoriety among prisoners and staff at Litchfield. And that’s a type of racism that many viewers probably haven’t seen on a show before.
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When viewers last saw Stella, she helped Piper Chapman (played by Taylor Schilling) start an underground panty empire at Litchfield.
Picking up where season three left off, the show has clearly entered a phase where Litchfield, the women’s penitentiary that houses its sprawling cast of characters, is an organic setting that trumps any one of them.
For the rest of that episode and into the finale of the season entitled “Toast Can’t Never Be Bread Again”, numerous racially-divided, so-called “families” deal with Poussey’s death in fairly predictable ways. She didn’t die, by the way. It’s here that Kohan and her team show how well they’ve learned to handle their characters’ stories. Clearly modeled as a Martha Stewart-meets-Paula Deen type, Judy is a captivating conundrum: an “anything goes” free spirit who views herself as open-minded and caring to a fault-while also reveling in opportunism and manipulation to get what she wants. Alex realizes that her fears were valid, and her old mob boss has indeed sent someone to kill her. Caputo lets her back in when she shows up outside the fence, and no one is more relieved than Taystee, who has been forced to deal her anxiety about Suzanne while dealing wth the space-constraints of the new inmates while stopping Cindy from starting a race war with Soso because she’s bored at lunch.
Freida’s a lot more pragmatic about the whole thing when she finds the dead body in the greenhouse. However, Crazy Eyes found out that Kukudio was way crazier than her. Smiling, singing and always making her signature prison booze, Poussey was an inspiring figure for the “Orange” audience – as well as the fictional fellow prisoners who loved her.
Throughout Season 3, Sophia Burset and inmate Gloria Mendoza’s sons got to know each other while carpooling for prison visits. Justina has the unique ability to cut through Gretchen’s layers of crap and remain (mostly) unflappable, even when Gretchen is at her worst.
TV chef Judy King (played by Blair Brown) is spending her sentence at Litchfield, another red-headed chef in the mix.
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There is something beautifully sad and rewarding about the final moments of Orange Is the New Black Season 3, in which inmates experience a brief moment of freedom, thanks to a ideal storm of inattentive construction workers and a complete breakdown of management at Litchfield. It looks like season four is going to dig in deeper to the problems of privatized prisons and push things to their breaking point because of overcrowding. If you haven’t watched up to the season’s finale, then consider yourself warned: SPOILERS ahead. “Everything I do is a result of hard work and I’m proud of it”.
