im rewatching this show and im pretty sure its my favorite hbo show ever, it was the first time they tried doing a show for an hour long and its devotion to theatrics and melodrama while staying incredibly grim as fuck works so goddamn well. augustus hills mini monologues each episode are amazing
every time they get in the imagination box they run wild
but the only thning i hear people talking about is the gay shit, which theres tons of, and its not all pretty, but its so fucking VARIED for the 90s. it has some fucking shitty trappings sometimes but for the most part they handle everything really well, like even when its melodramatic and over the top it works as a metaphor. the biggest thing that bugs me is how people who are in charge take the top bunk and no bitches get the top bunk! it sucks! but yes, you get to see a ton of hanging dong, you dont get clothes in the hole itd be stupid to hide the pee pee. this isnt metal gear solid 2. deep down though this show absolutely understands that the only good prison is one burnt to the fucking ground. im just saying, its fucking violent, its about racial tension in prisons half the fucking time, its not for the faint of heart i guess, content warning and all that
adebesi is my favorite character. like ive SEEN this show before and every time he does another psycho plot for a can of fruit or a snort of tits he pretends like hes getting better and i almost BELIEVE HIM EVERY TIME
he also drips style WITHIN the prison, he gets a new stupid fashion idea every episode. in season three hes wearing a long bumblebee sock and a shorter argyle sock
theres a part of the show where he goes to a mental hospital and while hes nice he has lots and lots of yarn bracelets on his arms but as he goes back to his old ways he slowly removes them until hes completely back to his old ways
everyones always like how does he keep his hat on his head (he said it was like velcro, that he could do a cartwheel and it wouldn’t come off. it just sticks to his head, and it gets more and more like, BOLD about just how well it sticks to his head, like in the first season hes almost wearing it but in the fourth its just sagging off to the side defiantly). anyway the question is how can he stand to roll his fucking socks in season 1 and 2 halfaway up to the arch of his foot that would make me WRETCH and TWITCH and DIE.
one of my favorite things about it is how damning the show is of neoliberalism. about how empty the platitudes and tiny rights we give to prisoners are, aobvut how anyone who works with the system to keep people getting arrested and put in prison is not working for a system for humans. it also will give you a tiny inch of happiness and rip it all away. like the show averages 2 deaths an episode, if you count flashback deaths its like five. speaking to the proto neoliberalism we’re on season 3 and the FORWARD THINKING prison unit manager sips down his most clintonian brain worms and decides to have the 8 groups hes decided represent the prison population by choosing an ambassador for each to have meetings where they vote on which crumbs they recieve that week
in season 3 they get the inspired idea to have these factions all box eachother. the only person on the show who actually had boxing experience was the dude who played chucky, he was also one of the only two cast members who had actually been to prison (along with poet, who wrote all the poetry himself that he recites on the show)
chucky’s actor was an ex hell’s angel in real life and tried out for the biker gang faction on the show but he had such a thick new york accent and looks like this so they were like AY YOU’RE A PAISAN NOW. i think the boxing in season 3 is the most boring shit ever but its really funny to watch and see how much better this guy is at boxing than everyone else even though in his fight he gets drugged to shit
i have so much to gush about this show so i guess ill just keep posting as im watching it. i keep screaming at veronica to take screencaps and shit so i can post them but she should just post some too. this show is too good to languish in the night thread
