On Television, Mothers Are the Villains
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Nice moms are over. If a writer wants to make good, timely television these days, looking to Faye Dunaway’s tour-de-force in Mommie Dearest is apropos. Long live the evil cinematic mom.
David Hinckley at the Daily News tallied up the most of the popular television shows and pointed out that most of the mommy characters are horrible people. Let’s take a look shall we?
Cersei Lannister, Game of Thrones
She harvested a bastard son, the late King Joffrey, through incest with her brother Jamie, and is pinning that kid’s murder on her other brother, Tyrion.
Betty Draper, Mad Men