This is a weird first episode, and I feel like an Alex and Piper: Lesbian Drug Dealers spin-off is in the pipeline. I'm curious: What did you think about Yoda the cockroach? The flashbacks are supposed to be relevant to the main storyline?! -No one
We find out that little kid Piper followed all the rules and then learned from her adulterer dad and her secret-keeping mom that it doesn't matter if you break the rules as long as you seem to be following them! Although, when she's hanging out with the drug ring in Europe and she says on the phone, "You taught me everything, Dad," that shows us that the writers of the show think we missed the point. Actually, I don't know that the cigarette-toting cockroach fits into this theme. First that guard misses the point, then we see Piper's family missing the point of boldness and honesty in flashbacks to her childhood, and then Piper misses the point with her conflict over whether or not to tell the truth about Kubra in the trial. It's degrading." It seemed like the theme of the whole episode - people just totally missing the point. Right at the beginning, when they're in a van transporting Piper SOMEWHERE and no one will tell her what's happening, one of the guards who's been talking about women in this really dehumanizing way and calling them "poochies" explains himself: "Can't say 'bitches' no more. What I've really wanted to know since Season 1 of Orange Is the New Black ended is WHAT HAPPENED TO PENNSATUCKY and this episode held out on us for so long that I felt I could sympathize with someone who doesn't know whether she bludgeoned an acquaintance to death (that is a joke, that is a joke).