Healey warns her to stay away from Boo because he thinks there is a “Lesbian Agenda” to make men obsolete, because heaven forbid that some women just aren’t into guys – there must be some kind of conspiracy behind it. She also gets to know Big Boo, particularly in episode 12 It Was the Change. She seeks solace with councillor Healey (don’t get me started on that arsehole’s issues). Her friends abandoning her also leads her to start questioning her faith. A local evangelical church got in her corner and paid for her legal proceedings because of her actions, not because of her beliefs, so it’s fair to say that her extreme beliefs are shaky at best. She was sent to prison in the first place for shooting up an abortion clinic, but it’s revealed that she did it because the nurse working the front counter disrespected her. This is the catalyst for Doggett’s shift from murderous to ‘just trying her best’, and when we began to realise that not everything is as simple as protagonist versus antagonist.ĭoggett has some serious anger issues which get worked out in season two. They used to follow her around and do her bidding, like Crabbe and Goyle to her Malfoy, but when she went to SHU for a while they realised that life was a lot easier without her telling them what to do and getting them into trouble all the time. Season two, however, sees Doggett abandoned by her friends. She starts a feud with Piper, the embodiment of the perpetual victim complex, and by the end of the first season becomes fucking terrifying as she and her cronies resort to attempted murder. She’s transphobic toward Sophia, homophobic toward multiple other women and generally pretty damn ignorant. She’s an evangelical Christian and uses her religion as an excuse to treat other people with contempt. She first appears in the fifth episode of season one and quickly becomes a major antagonist. Okay, so Trigger Warning here… we’re going to start with Tiffany Doggett, AKA Pennsatucky.ĭoggett goes through some of the biggest transformations in the entire run so far. Instead, as we eagerly await season four, the next few blogs will focus on some of the best examples of character development and female-oriented storytelling across the first three seasons. I’m going to work on the assumption that most of the people reading this have already watched OITNB, perhaps more than once, so I’m not going to go into depth explaining who all of the characters are. The writers achieve this in a number of ways, the most obvious being allocating all the flashbacks in one episode to a particular character’s back story. Conversely, characters that are seen as antagonistic in the first season become sympathetic, and even likable, further down the line. The characters evolve so much so that you actually go from sympathising with the ‘main’ character, Piper, to being completely pissed off at her by the end of the second season. This show has so many characters, and each episode adds layers and layers of depth to the main cast. I’ve been putting off writing about Orange is the New Black for a while now, purely because it’s so intimidating to write about. Countdown! Only 10 days until season 4! Who’s excited?
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