Maybe it's just one too many things for me to keep track of, but, I'm rewatching the series and I'm on season 4, episode 8, and Red has a scar on her right cheek and I can't remember how it got there.
Can you tell me where the scar is from? Thanks ☺
Oh, season 2, episode 12! You mean Vee. I remember now ☺ thank you!
Maybe it's just one too many things for me to keep track of, but, I'm rewatching the series and I'm on season 4, episode 8, and Red has a scar on her right cheek and I can't remember how it got there.
Can you tell me where the scar is from? Thanks ☺
I am almost certain that the Count statistic is the number of episodes in which the character can be found.
Also, Tricia and what happened to her is brought up more than once during season two :)
While it's true that Tricia's death wasn't given quite the gravity that we might see later in the series, it didn't pass by without regard.
In season 1, episode 11, Alex, Piper, Nicky, Norma, Sister Ingalls, Yoga Jones, and Big Boo all gathered to mourn Tricia. Additionally, Chang, Gloria, Black Cindy, and Poussey shared their condolences and contributed to the memorial with snacks and hooch.
But most importantly, Tricia's death pushed the season forward, galvanising and motivating several characters, resulting in major changes. There's a long chain that follows from here including Mendez being caught with Daya, Red being removed from the kitchen, Murphy being permanently scarred... The show consistently impresses me with how characters' secret motivations have surprising effects.
If Red and the others hadn't conspired to get Mendez caught, would Caputo have told Fischer to come down harder on inmates? Would Fischer have hassled Miss Claudette, resulting in her assault on Fischer and being permanently sent to Max? Who could have known that would be a result...? And don't forget, a lot of this goes back to Blanca and her damn cell phone and Piper absentmindedly putting a screwdriver in her pocket!
But I'm getting a bit tangential here. I would have liked to have gotten more insight on Tricia, particularly how she got involved with narcotics, but I think the show did a pretty good job treating her suicide with narrative weight. I urge you to go back and watch episodes 9-13 with an eye on how events and choices connect, and the impact her death had.
It's very interesting rewatching the series because the first two times or so that Poussey really does anything on-screen, it is a bit out of character for her. She's hostile and seems a bit like a stereotype at first. I guess something was going on with her at the time? I don't think it's ever explained.
I wonder if the creators did this on purpose. People aren't always what they seem at first... And we don't always get explanations for people's moods....
Anyway I love the Poussey we get to see for most of the series and what happened to her in season four was devastating. I was very glad to see season five treating the fallout from that so seriously and realistically.
Nah, after the accidental killing of Piscatella, extra precautions will be taken. Nobody else will die.
The importance of that shot of everyone in the pool was that they were standing together. Think of all the drama and conflict those characters have had between them over the years. At this moment they are united. It's very emotional.