![]() Then there's Healy's mother, shown in a brief flashback that indicates Healy's childhood was some kind of Roald Dahl nightmare. Motherhood is definitely an interesting theme, and while 'Mother's Day' feels more like a mid-season episode than a premiere, it does offer a kaleidoscopic view of all the different kind of mothers there are: good mothers, bad mothers, mothers that used to be fathers, stand-in mothers, mothers-to-be. When holding a memorial for her B-named babies, Pennsatucky gets a speech from Big Boo that (like a few moments in this season) skirts the line between characterization and the writers using a character as a mouthpiece, but at least it succeeds in cheering Pennsatucky up. The whole thing would make a superb safe sex PSA.Īnother interesting angle on Mother's Day comes from Pennsatucky, who could have been a mother six times over were it not for her abortions and miscarriage. One inmate who has far too much motherhood to deal with is Daya, who is facing the prospect of becoming a mother herself, caught between her biological mother (Aleida) and a mother figure (Gloria), playing mother to her younger siblings and dealing with new interest from Pornstache's mother, who thinks she's the baby's grandmother. Whereas the season two premiere shook the show back to life by throwing Piper (and the audience) into an unfamiliar environment, this episode feels more like pulling on an old, familiar coat. The result is a premiere that is considerably more scattered than the previous two, in which the focus was on Piper. Since everyone in Litchfield either is a mother or had a mother, the flashbacks in this episode are little vignettes jumping around from one character to the next, rather than offering a secondary story arc focusing on just one person. The inmates of Litchfield Penitentiary are also celebrating a special occasion in this premiere, as Mother's Day under the gentle touch of Joe Caputo turns the yard into a low-rate fairground, complete with a poorly-constructed mini golf course, Cinco de Mayo decorations and a candy-free piñata. It's that time of year again, when Netflix does the squat 'n' cough and Orange is the New Black fans peer closely to see if the service has smuggled in another great season of Jenji Kohan's prison drama.
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