Maggie
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Lady_Hairy_Legs — 14 years ago(November 23, 2011 04:15 AM)
Irritated the hell out of me with her selectively retarded behaviour. Her character was just too inconsistent. One minute she would be talking rationally, the next she would come out with something ridiculous (which was usually followed by her pulling that stupid face)
Someone THAT stupid would not even be able to get out of bed in the morning.
IMO she brought nothing to the show. -
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eru0527 — 13 years ago(August 25, 2012 03:46 PM)
I don't think she's selectively stupid. I think she's borderline mentally retarded like Forrest Gump. When is she ever anything but completely oblivious? She doesn't understand that you can't tell the mean things your friend says about someone behind their back to the person in question (happens multiple times). She's so stupid that she can't handle that a person she's attracted to is of a different race than her. She has no conversational skills, she always puts forward the scenario's of "What would you choose between bad thing A and bad thing B" that kids in the ages 7-12 often do.
I can go on since this character is annoying in season 1, ever so annoying in season 2 and in the series finale she's one of the worst characters I have ever seen on TV or film. -
si_firefly — 12 years ago(May 18, 2013 05:49 PM)
Well i thought she was awesome. Loved her. Ditzy, stupid, but totally good at heart.
Loved her, especially when she was paired with ricky. She was a little annoying on her own.
I think you guys mossed the point of the character.
"I find your lack of faith disturbing" -
RenderedToast — 10 years ago(April 16, 2015 05:42 AM)
She single-handedly ruins the show for me. Her behaviour is retarded at best and deliberately bitter and jealous of Andy's success at worst (she always seems to open her mouth at the perfect time to screw something up for him despite acting rationally before).
When the finale asked me to feel sorry for her because she was working as a cleaner, playing the opening bars of This Woman's Work OVER and OVER and OVER again, I just thought "cleaning is exactly where she should be, why am I meant to feel sorry for her for not being an actor when she has no talent?".
Weird message. -
RetroActionMovieFan — 10 years ago(January 22, 2016 12:16 AM)
In season 1 I thought Maggie was playing stupid. I thought she was supposed to be like all the other actor wannabes, faking friendship with Andy and others to see if she can get roles, and appearing to "unintentionally" humiliate him at given times to bring him down and give herself a chance to look good and progress.
By season 2 I realised she is just stupid.
I would have preferred it if Maggie had emerged to be a smart vindictive woman just choosing to playing dumb. -
Melton1 — 5 months ago(October 30, 2025 09:58 PM)
Insane takes.
Maggie’s great. She’s the heart of the show. An innocent in a world of vipers, but also hilariously stupid.
She bounces off Gervais brilliantly, and has some great subplots of her own - gollywog, Lizzie Bunton, phone sex etc.