6x01 Who Knows Better Than I

I'm kinda disappointed.

It feels like the last few seasons the quality of the show has gone downhill. Last season was a whole mess, but this first episode seems even more like one. I'll be watching the season to an end, but I'll definitely be complaining.

To clarify: I'm a woman, I have mental disorders and I am a part of a minority. My opinions have before been shrugged of as a "white privileged male"s opinions, so I'm hesitant on writing this and it sucks that I have to clarify this so that people would even listen to me since it doesn't matter in my opinion. But yeah.

I'll just mark this all as spoilers.

The new surrounding is very visually appealing. It's a new, fresh place and it actually looks more like a prison. From what I gathered, it was needed, and I appreciate the change. I was very confused by the first 10 minutes, and every time Crazy Eyes (Suzanne) came on since I didn't understand what was going on until it was clear she was hallucinating. Then it sort of became clear what it was and I think the portrayal of having a hallucination is very accurate. Props for that.

However, rest is pretty lame.

All the guards are really one-dimensional. They're either violent or incompetent, and there has been no portrayal of good guards in a long time. I feel like it's going out of their way to portray "systematic racism" or whatever people call it with scenes where only black people get beaten by white guards, when in reality, if a prison guard beats up an inmate they'll be jailed themselves. I feel the show is going all out to push an agenda, a narrative, and I feel pretty disgusted by it. It has been going on for a few seasons now, sure: but having at least 3-4 "bad guards" violating all of these poor, victimized women of color with sexual assault or battery is just straight out lying and pushing a narrative. If that were to happen in real life, I bet by guts out that it would be a very, very big scandal and they wouldn't get away scoot-free.

Oh and don't get me started on putting two dangerous inmates in ad-seg together. What are the writers thinking? Are they trying to get them to murder each other?

I do appreciate the portrayal of CO Alvarez in this episode. He shows clear autistic tendencies; oddly spesific about his pens because of what kind of sensory output it gives him, unable to read his coworker, not able to show empathy. I sure hope he'll stay as a "good guy" or I'll make sure to raise hell over how they're portraying autistic; I've had enough people tell me how I'm bad or doesn't fit into the society due to my autism, so portraying the "bad guy" as autistic will only make autistic look even worse - no matter if the autistic person was a male or female, guard or inmate. If they're "evil", it'll just make all of us look bad.

Anyway that's my take on this episode.