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They’re trying to rewrite the past.Īnd because they are white, privileged, male corporate monkeys, rather than disadvantaged inmates who have been stripped of their humanity, they can almost get away with it. They’re doing exactly what Lolly tried to do in her time machine. When they can’t find anything, they move on to Bayley.
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In macabre parallel, while Poussey dances happily in that charmingly odd nightclub, these men sort through every image they can find from her past, searching for something that will transform her into a villain. They’re there to find an angle, a way to spin the situation to protect MCC. They do nothing that’s actually helpful, of course. (Regret, I’m sure, implies some level of legal liability that they would never cop to.) As Poussey’s body still lies prone on the cafeteria floor, Caputo has to meet with the two-man team that arrived to “manage” the situation.
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Time travel and regret also play into MCC’s corporate response, although the crisis management team would never describe it in such suggestive terms. It’s fitting that the finale shows us such gorgeous, maddening scenes of Poussey’s past, only to return to the present day, where Angie and Leanne decide the time machine is cursed and tear it to pieces. Lolly’s time machine does not work we cannot go back and undo what Bayley, Piscatella, Caputo’s neglect, and MCC’s corporate greed did. She’s young, embodying that potent mixture of worldly desires and naïveté, and she’s a joyful witness to the best that people can be.īut as Litchfield forces us to remember, she’s now dead. Poussey gets pulled into some kind of performance-art club in her quest to borrow someone’s phone, she gazes warmly at the diverse humanity on the subway, and she hitches a ride with a group of Improv Everywhere performers dressed as bicycle-riding Buddhist monks. She’s visiting New York City for the first time, and after she gets separated from her friends, she has a magical, surreal, sparkling experience of the city. In the aftermath of Poussey’s death, we get an extensive flashback that paints a portrait of who she was before her imprisonment. The finale uses OITNB’s season-long meditation on regret to painful, pointed, lovely effect.
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As Doggett tells Coates, in what is my favorite episode title of the season, “Toast can’t never be bread again.” We can jump back to watch what happened in the past, but we can’t change anything. This idea - that regret is real, but time only moves in one direction - is threaded across season four, and it’s also implicit in OITNB’s flashback structure. Alex’s opinion is fatalistic their choices don’t matter, she tells Piper. In episode 11, Piper and Alex talk about whether they’d want to change the past. As part of the same conversation, Doggett gives Coates an opportunity to say whether or not he regrets raping her - an opportunity he doesn’t even recognize until later. In episode eight, members of the Construction 101 class talk about what they might do if the time machine worked, and an unusually thoughtful Hapakuka says that rather than kill baby Hitler, she’d go back and raise him better, encouraging his artistic side. Lolly builds a potato-powered time machine out of cardboard and foil, then she and Healy talk about what they would change if they could. Throughout this season, Orange Is the New Black has told stories about wistfulness and regret and time travel.