BuzzFeed - Coates (James McMenamin) hears Doggett (Taryn Manning) call him a rapist. Netflix The third season of Orange Is the New Black primed viewers to hate Charlie Coates (James McMenamin), the manipulative, predatory guard who befriended and then raped inmate Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett (Taryn Manning). But, in a return to the Netflix series's regularly scheduled nuance, it's clear in Season 4 that the rapist is not just a villain anymore. Rather than completely demonize the officer who pinned down a female prisoner and proceeded to rape her in the back of the van where their juvenile flirtation began in Season 3, the new season sends Coates on a wobbly path to some kind of rehabilitation as he reckons with his indefensible actions. "The character is three-dimensional, and all people are three-dimensional," McMenamin told Buzzfeed News in a recent phone interview. "It's certainly easy to judge Charlie Coates based on this one facet. Frankly, I wouldn't really want to have lunch wi
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