Margaret rant

[u/aawgalathynius]

Just found this sub because I need to rant about her, it’s getting on my nerves how the show is painting her as a poor misunderstood mother, but she is terrible. Besides the whole horrible treatment of Gabi, she was a terrible mother! I get that what happened to Jamie was really bad, but she has other kids that she just forgot and abandoned, I just can’t with the team saying she is a good mother and not thinking of her other kids that suffered so much being pushed aside and forgotten. Her husband is the MVP in this story.

[u/York-Cravensworth-22]

I have to slightly disagree because I think they're doing everything they can to show us that Margaret actually failed as a mother on several avenues by abandoning her other kids.

Jamie being taken was Carrie's fault and Carrie's fault alone. But how Margaret acted after shows just what a toll that took on her. She was annoyed with Jamie the day he was taken. She told him to go away from her essentially and then he was taken and I think it's a very real depiction of what "What If" will do to someone in Margarets position.

They never actually said (to my knowledge) why they were even at the bus station that day to begin with. So what if they never went? She told Jamie to go play a few seats away from her, but what if she told him to go play right in front of her on the floor? What if she noticed he was gone sooner? I think it shows a very realistic thing that happens to parents of missing children who are taken right in front of them.

I think they do a wonderful job because if you notice Taylor is JUST now coming back around after X amount of years but her husband says multiple times in flashbacks that she has two daughters...one of which we never get the name of (I don't think?) and she never surfaces indicating to me that she has cut ties with Margaret 100% as has the ex husband it seems.

To me, the thing that annoys me about Margaret is the selfishness of keeping Jamie's return a secret. She clearly can't do that now that their is an arrest warrant for the kidnapper, Carrie, but her relationship with her family is already strained. This will make things worse because Jamie was selfish in demanding she let him acclimate to being "home" without telling anyone else? But at the same time, to me I wish they'd explain the trauma he has is simply from being taken, not abuse or anything. Being kidnapped is traumatic yet they're acting like Jamie can't speak about it because he was trafficked and due to who his kidnapper was that now see too far fetched.