Mag's we'll miss you, you nasty, manipulative, lying murderous psychopath!!!
The only good thing you can say about her is she did seem to genuinely care about Loretta. Then again, she's the one who made her an orphan, and virtually nothing could be taken at face value with Mags.
Margo Martindale did a lights-out job with this character. I'll be damned if I didn't see my own mother in her (not a lot, thank God! But some) and a lot of the tough women I grew up among in rural Iowa. None of them were crime bosses of course, but they too had pride in where they came from - even if most people would laugh at them (behind their backs) for any "pride" in a small, poor isolated hometown.
People who wanted to leave their kids a little better off than they had it.
People who valued the truth in their dealings with others, especially family.
Margo Martindale, through Mags, put this forth as well as anyone, even if it wasn't her most important characteristic. She seems to "get" those of us who grew up poor (but surely not needy due to the good and decent parents who ensured that) in isolated areas that most people wouldn't want to stop even for gas.
For this, if nothing else, I felt a real connection to her character. Of course, there was much "else" to the Mags character - pretty much all of it vile. But she was real.
A great ending for a season, and a fitting ending for the Bennett family.
The only good thing you can say about her is she did seem to genuinely care about Loretta. Then again, she's the one who made her an orphan, and virtually nothing could be taken at face value with Mags.
Margo Martindale did a lights-out job with this character. I'll be damned if I didn't see my own mother in her (not a lot, thank God! But some) and a lot of the tough women I grew up among in rural Iowa. None of them were crime bosses of course, but they too had pride in where they came from - even if most people would laugh at them (behind their backs) for any "pride" in a small, poor isolated hometown.
People who wanted to leave their kids a little better off than they had it.
People who valued the truth in their dealings with others, especially family.
Margo Martindale, through Mags, put this forth as well as anyone, even if it wasn't her most important characteristic. She seems to "get" those of us who grew up poor (but surely not needy due to the good and decent parents who ensured that) in isolated areas that most people wouldn't want to stop even for gas.
For this, if nothing else, I felt a real connection to her character. Of course, there was much "else" to the Mags character - pretty much all of it vile. But she was real.
A great ending for a season, and a fitting ending for the Bennett family.