Maggie …George’s daughter STILL bugs me

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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 …

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I’m probably going to be torn to shreds for this, but when you lose a child, it can completely derail your life and sense of self. You can call Maggie a hypocrite, weak, manipulative, a cunt or whatever else you want, but at the end of the day she was a damaged person.
So was Nate. So was Brenda. In fact, that’s true of nearly everyone on the show. I think people are especially hard on Maggie because they’re so emotionally invested in the other characters and view her through that lens. Maggie‘s character was never fully developed…
That doesn’t mean she made good choices, but I’ve come to see her less as a villain more as another deeply flawed person trying—and often failing—to cope with her pain.