wawamouse | Oz Rewatch 3: S3E05: U.S. Male

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This episode is called “U.S male”, which sort of makes the Narrator’s USPS outfit make more sense… The joys of knowing what the episode titles are!

Plotlines:

O’Reily continues to stir up shit with the boxing matches; threatens Cudney, doesn’t bother drugging Wangler in his fight vs Khan
Khan vs Wangler ; Khan wins
Poet dedicates a diss to Said; love troubles with Patricia
Kenny gets the news that his wife is dead (lol)
Adebisi enacts his revenge against the Homeboys with the help of the Latinos
Miguel continues his sessions with Sister Pete
McManus v Howell sexual assault case; McManus regrets his man whoring ways (or something)
Yuri Kosygin arrives at Oz
Busmalis gets a letter from Miss Sally
Carlo Ricardo’s father stops coming
Hughes asks about his father’s death; threatens Rebadow while trying to figure out who it was, which is seen by Mukada; Whittlesey advises not going to Glynn about it but talking to Hughes instead; Mukada talk to Hughes
Sister Pete continues her sessions with Keller
Toby bonds with Andrew and helps him get clean, much to Vern’s horror; Vern arranges for Andrew’s death in solitary

Sister: His look of glee was on screen for a really long time…

Sister: Yeah it was the most beautiful tattoo you had… (Turning to me) Is this a hallucination?

Me: But he can’t, because he was ordered to do it...
Sister: He was? I would be a terrible lackey…
Me: Did you forget he was ordered to do it? What did you think happened?
Sister: No, I thought after it was done, he could say the reason why. Like he could just be like "he told me to do it."

Sister: I don’t understand what he’s not getting. Wasn’t he also in a gang? Shouldn’t he know why Alvarez did it to him?

Sister: (as McManus) So I’m a slut—

Sister: I don't know. I just can’t really have a favorite character who kills the wrong person, and they both killed the wrong person. If they can't kill the right person, I can’t trust them… Then again, what has Miguel done to make him my favorite character?
Me: He hasn’t killed anyone yet, though.
Sister: Myeah, but… (rolls eyes) He still hasn’t done anything to make him a favorite, either
Me: He shows remorse which make you root for him.
Sister: Oh, it’s because you said he lasts until the end.

Sister: And you’re not dramatic?! You literally copied the Valentine’s Day Massacre for your crime!

Sister: Well his is probably the only one she can read, at least… The rest are written in crayon…

Sister: He's living "And Then There Were None"...Eventually, he’s going to show up and there’s just going to be a fruit basket. And then the next time, just a basket, no fruit.

Sister: He should talk to Sister Pete… the psychologist…

Sister: …Ooh, Asian? Is this our third Asian in the show? TWO? In one episode?

Sister: Why does he have a cane? Couldn’t he whack people with it?
Me: I wrote a fanfiction where one of the characters had a cane and he kept whacking people with it.
Sister: Yeah! They keep giving people weapons and it's like... start swinging!

Sister: Ew, gross!

Sister: But his new friends are still all white...
Me: Yeah but they’re the Cool™ white people.
Sister: He got a college education now. The woke left...

Sister: Who’s Ed McMahon?
Me: 90s moment.

Stray thoughts:

The doctor that Cudney kills in the crime flashback and Keller’s second ex-wife are the only other Asian characters in the show until season 4 lol
What does Said’s change of hat indicate? Usually he wears a round cap but this episode it’s more of a square one
We know at least that this episode takes place in winter from when Kenny goes to his wife’s funeral, although I guess that’s not so mysterious, considering that the show ends on new year’s. During his session with Sister Pete, Miguel places 2x08 as being “last summer”.
Sister: Is Sister Peter Marie’s new storyline going to be that she gets the hots for a prisoner? 😒 Because that worked out so well with Gloria…
Sister realised Toby has a soul patch in the latest evolution of his facial hair and made puking noises
Sister (joking about how there’s no asian gang or asian prisoners) : It’s because we’re all such upstanding citizens, upholding the Monolith…. Actually, Mukada was a slacker in class so the Monolith sent him to prison, but we’d lose face if he was there as a prisoner so we sent him in as a priest. Angelique is there to check on him.

Final Thoughts

Sister: Miguel wasn’t in this episode // Me: yes he was
Sister: Your Carmen Electra-Carmen Miranda guy didn’t say anything this episode. He didn’t get paid 😔 // Me: yes he did
Obviously we went back and watched the relevant scenes. Sister just forgot about them by the end of the episode and also because we went on like a 10 minutes tangent hypothetical about a housefly that got sent to solitary and was already in there serving time (life sentence, obviously) when Andrew Schillinger got thrown into the Hole. Whereupon the fly became his zen master, of course, and let out a little fly scream of despair when the Pupil was corrupted once more by his weaknesses
Sister still does not understand the forbidden aspect of the Said/Ross romance. Like I think she gets it but also is confused by it because also it's not really explained int he show either; it kind of comes off like the other Muslims are mad because they're supposed to be celibate or soemthing, but no... I guess it's just the interracial part? I don't know. I kind of just accept the conflict as is but I don't really understand it either. I guess the main problem is that when it was revealed that Said's ex-fiancee was the white lady from s2, it didn't seem like a big deal at all, so a new romance is like huh? Why's this a problem all the sudden?