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Praise for Mackenzie Mauzy

posted 10 years ago by peggygeordie
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In all the praise for this show, I haven't seen this actress mentioned (I just had to look up her name myself) yet her performance as Henry's wife in flashbacks is yet another memorable and heart-warming aspect to this show. So often the dead or missing wife is just a boring trope to give the hero a tragic history, but her story was perfectly integrated with Henry's and her beauty and warmth a constant presence, adding to what we felt for both Henry and Abe and to their love for each other. She was lovely and endearing and always believable - and her name should not be forgotten when we talk about the joys of this ensemble cast.

[–] bpoz 10 years ago

Well said! I couldn't agree more.

I like all the characters on this show but especially the family of Henry, Abigail and Abe. Everything about them really. I'm going to miss them. I'm so glad we got to see what happened to her before the show ended. Of course I'd be even happier if we could see more of their story.

[–] liisbdn-907-683473 10 years ago

while i loved how it was written, i often felt Abe was too distant or more like a buddy to Henry rather than a son.
he was raised by them and are the only parents he knows (despite obviously knowing they're not his biological parents), yet it often felt like they didn't have that parent-child relationship you'd expect, but some 'i grew up with you but i'm my own person and you're not my *real* dad' vibe..

[–] peggygeordie 10 years ago

I never felt that at all, but obviously by the time we some in on the story Abe is 80 years old and has aged normally, and would have a combination of early years with "normal parents," middle years of seeing his mother age while Dad remains young, and then aging beyond his own father so that he would partly love him as the older person but also have to relate to him publicly as the younger one he seems. Abe also feels protective toward Henry due to the tragedy of his condition.

But we definitely see Henry responding as the fond father while also worrying about Abe's own vulnerability.

[–] shuny 10 years ago

I always thought it was strange how often Abe called his father Henry while they were alone. Occasionally he'd say "Dad". It was definitely too little for my tastes. I agree that its hard to give an eighty year old fatherly advise, but Henry was till older and with more experience. I thought they had a strange relationship.

[–] cosmo7 9 years ago

I call my parents by their first names. I try not to call my mother anything (as in, "hey you") because everything feels uncomfortable...but I always call my dad by his first name.

I was watching Dharma & Greg recently, and Dharma calls her parents by their first names. They seem to have a healthy relationship.

[–] Irish_Moon 9 years ago

My daughter in laws father had a sex change and she is name Tammy. So the kids are having to switch from Dad to Tammy and the grandkids call her Aunt Tammy. Switching names I sure is hard, Growing up I called my step-dad, dad or Robin. I went back and forth. Looking back it depend on where I was in my relationship with him. He wasn't an easy man. BY the time he died he was dad. My really father died when I was 2. Thing can change....it happens.

[–] tenement-funster 9 years ago

And sometimes (as your first example shows) things have to change! And no bad thing. Change is what keeps the world moving.

Abe had to stop calling Henry "Dad", because he couldn't slip up and do it in public. I thought the way that he just did occasionally, in very private moments, made it all the better. Their relationship was depicted beautifully.

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