orange is the new black season 1 episode 9

If Piper were, as she’s claimed, just trying to spearhead an initiative that would benefit the whole population, surely she won’t mind being displaced!īut of course Piper, whatever she said, was primarily trying to aggrandize herself, and is thus disappointed. Badison snatches it away for Carol’s inspection Carol notes, “You didn’t get kickball, you got D-block kickball … If Barb’s bitches are playing, we’ve got to have our own team.” Carol drafts several of her girls to a C-block team and puts Badison in charge.

Piper convinces Ruiz to support the kickball bid, and she does: the inmate with the commissary cart later delivers Piper a book containing her kickball petition, with all the signatures she needs, thanks to Ruiz’s signing up all the “church ladies,” as Hoefler puts it. Piper starts the episode making a respectful appeal for Carol’s blessing, in deference to her position as boss of the block, and while Carol tells Piper she doesn’t care, she privately expresses to Badison her disgust at Piper for thinking she can start something: “I’m the starter,” Carol declares.ĭetermined to collect the signatures Luschek has ordered, Piper accompanies Hoefler to Bible study, where Piper is surprised to see Ruiz for her part, Ruiz is unconvinced by the teachings, but keeping an open mind. Alas, my wishing it to be over cannot make it so. While I understand that Orange Is the New Black is set in prison and that sometimes what seems tediously repetitive to the viewer is constructed that way intentionally, that we may feel a fraction of what incarcerated persons experience … seriously, enough with Piper’s kickball campaign.

Orange is the new black season 1 episode 9