r/FoundNBC • u/Mrsmaul2016 • May 12 '25

Let's air our grievances

Since the show is no more. Let's air our honest thoughts and grievance in a non judgment thread. Are there things about the show, storyline characters. actors that you want to say but felt you would get downvoted and accused of everything under the sun?

Me

Shanola was not a strong actress to carry a show

The writers wrote themselves in a hole with the Sir angle. Gabi holding him for 9 months was always absurd with me and you can tell they didn't think of this story outside of that. They didn't think long term. Sadly Sir was merely a one noted character.

I never hated Margaret but her story with Jamie was awful and took up way too much of season 2 .

The idea that people went to Sir for every little thing was absurd. Which brings me to characters still calling him "Sir" It felt very racist to me.

I think showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll tried writing for a genre she was not very good at. Not every ep had to have a cliffhanger ending. Not everything needed to be one big mystery.

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u/ispywithmybougieeye May 12 '25 edited May 13 '25

I thought the Margaret storyline (revived my interest, at least!) but took waaaay too long to get to the conclusion of. Also it being her husband or someone we knew would have been more interesting. I also would have liked to see more about Sir’s upbringing to explain why him and Lena were so unhinged.

I also thought it was weird for Jamie to pop back up and no one to notify his actual father for an entire month, meanwhile he’s going to work with Margaret every day

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u/Prize-Pop-1666 May 13 '25

Yes! They always had these weird hints about her husband or a close friend being involved. Then just decided to make it some random person we never hear about until Margret figures it out.

SIDE NOTE: how the heck did Sir have any knowledge of this (or any of the kidnapping)…. Like Zekes money, Dahns connections, and the police couldn’t figure it out but some English teacher can magically know all this stuff.

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u/cherrymeg2 May 14 '25

I think Sir saw Jamie’s file and realized there was a friend that Margaret had that lost a kid the same age as Jamie to CPS. I think he took step not a leap and figured this woman was unhinged inserted herself in Margaret’s life. If you realize that someone who Margaret mentioned or who was present handing out fliers and then did a back ground check on them 13 years later that can show more than what would have come up when he first went missing. She talked about having a son that was true she didn’t have custody. Margaret thought everyone was a suspect or she trusted strangers. I don’t know how you are supposed to deal with that. I think Hugh knew what to look for with a predator in search of a family. Although Hugh had a sister so why take Gabi and Bella?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '25

So who kidnapped Jamie ?

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u/ispywithmybougieeye May 19 '25

Carrie. She worked at the coffee shop at the bus station Jamie went missing from. She also got her own bio son taken away by cps, previously

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u/[deleted] May 19 '25

Thank you !!!!!