And as the show moved away from Piper toward people like Poussey, it was hard to see her tale addressed as if it had been just as vital as racial profiling and the dying of a black woman. Pennsatucky died, and that loss of life did not hit as really hard as the show’s ending for Karla, alone in that desert. The ending to the sixth and penultimate year serves as a perfect illustration of this dichotomy.