The first scene where Riley explicitly talks about his time is when he is talking to his childhood friend, and she asks him the simple question, “How are you doing.” While this is a normal thing to say to each other, Riley realizes that this is his first time hearing it since he went to prison 4 years ago. In prison “everyday is the same,” so there is no need to ask that question. This relates to a much broader significance about prison and life after prison. When Riley is flung out of prison, this change of everyday life can be hard, and sometimes even unbearable, as we saw with Brooks in The Shawshank Redemption. Riley also struggles with this transition, and while he is warmed by some of the simple things about life outside of prison, he is also lost for most of the time, and it is so unfamiliar that it can be painful. This show is a very realistic show(apart from its fantasy horror) that shows real life people, which makes me realize how much people can change from being in Prison for extended periods of time. Riley feels regret for what he did, and prison did nothing to change this. It just took years of his life away, and made it so that he won't ever be able to be whole again. He is still bondadged by prison, which took away his real freedom and forced him to live the rest of his life feeling out of place in the real world. Do you guys think that it is really possible to be whole again after prison, or will everyone's experience have these same qualities?