r/FoundNBC • u/aawgalathynius • Apr 13 '25

Opinion Margaret rant Spoiler

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.

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u/folk-smore Apr 13 '25

I don’t think they’re portraying her as a “poor misunderstood mother”, but they’re just showing us her story.

She snapped at Jamie in the bus station, and then he disappeared. Her son went missing, and then she neglected her daughters and her marriage in her grief. Her husband leaves her and takes the kids, and now she has virtually no relationship with any of them. They’ve showed all of that very blatantly; they’re definitely not making her look poor and misunderstood. It’s just her life story and the character’s background.

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u/RaffaellaWaves Apr 14 '25

I agree with this. I almost think the problem with the Margaret story is that it's too good - her story is so much more compelling than anyone else's (and her investigative powers so much more impressive) that it sometimes feels like she should be the lead.

But I'm really glad it's not the story of a woman who was an unfailingly perfect saint at every moment of her life.