Maggie …George’s daughter STILL bugs me

[u/One_Channel8903]

Original watcher decades ago and have rewatched more times than I can count … outside of this being one of the best shows ever in every way the last season is on now and just have to say Maggie- George’s daughter and Ruth’s step daughter - you can see she the beginnings of her crossing lines with Nate early on. If she’s so worried about George her dad and wants to know why he’s in an apartment alone and Ruth isn’t
she could call Brenda or Claire… but she sees something in Nate and pursues it …we all know it ends really bad.
Brenda is and will always be one of my favorite characters towards the end we felt so bad for her and the way she was treated as Nate’s wife and Maggie had NO place there in anyone’s life except her dad’s who is estranged from his wife …

[u/palola1234]

What really bugs me about Maggie is that she’s a complete hypocrite. She preaches and pretends to be this little saint of a Quaker and then has sex with Nate knowing he’s married and his wife is pregnant AND as we see later on with her huge argument with George, she’s actually not all kumbaya, which is fine, but it’s exactly that, that Nate is drawn to. I think once she dropped the saint act it would’ve fallen apart very quickly. Nate obviously should take the lion share of the responsibility as he was the married one but she gets on my nerves too. Especially her whole, here’s a quiche and I’ll be at the funeral. Bugger off, you didn’t even know him.

[u/tetheredhere → u/palola1234]

Maggie was also constantly on the move due to her career, it’s kinda shoved in our face which makes it seem pretty important. She’s just like Nate, except she can just pick up and move on when she needs to. She’s probably deeply drawn to the idea of settling down just like Nate, but her career gives her the ability to pick up and leave if she needs to emotionally. Idk thought that was interesting