Lamar) stripping down to her bra and panties, a topless Sophia examining her figure, Sophia putting on makeup. And, as others have noted, there’s a bit of skeeve to the way we’re invited to examine Laverne Cox’s body in the opening scenes of the episode: We see a pre-transition Sophia (played by Cox’s twin brother, M. Burset has been introduced to us, in the first two episodes, as a near-stereotype: Most of her lines have centered around praising, or styling, another woman’s hair. One storyline - the one people tend to remember when they praise it - is the story of Sophia Burset’s transition and how it’s threatened by the prison’s abrupt and causeless decision to take her off of her estrogen. It's a place where the worst loss is often the loss of control. Prison, in this show, is not a place defined exclusively by shock-and-gore brutality.
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