So...I'm 15 minutes into the first episode of season 2 and absolutely cannot stand Nancy Tench.
She was a chore to watch and listen to throughout season one, the few scenes she had. This time around though, she's fucking insufferable. It's only been 10 minutes and I'm already dying inside listening to her.
I hope she doesn't have much screentime this season, as that would completely ruin the show.
I read your post before I started watching the season, and I braced myself for some horrible accent or grating voice (I didn't remember her from season one), but she sounds just fine. Not sure what your problem is with her. [shrug]
You said you didn't watch the season, then mentioned you're confused as to the issue with her. Watch the season and you'll know what I'm talking about?
No sense coming to her rescue if you're not even sure what it is you're defending. No?
I watched five eps already. You said you couldn't stand her as soon as 10 minutes into the season. Seems to me like an overreaction - she is just a regular person.
I watched the second season twice already, and my opinion was only more and more justified as the show went on. She's a chronic complainer.
If you're happy with people like that, more power to you. Not everyone is, though
I finished the season now - Nancy Tench specifically would have never attracted my attention if not for this thread, but now that I think about it, her life is pretty hellish. Married to a man who is always away for work, with whom you always have to put your own life on hold, and then on top of it all you find out your adopted young son just might be a murderous psychopath?? How does someone even deal with something like that? If anything, I'd say she is pretty strong, considering.
I also find it ironic how you write AT LENGTH enumerating all her transgressions (very strange standards to hold everyone to, btw - as if you don't realize that you too might be a flawed human being), and yet entirely fail to see that that, too, is complaining! Lots of it!
And no, I am sure Bill is not happy or relieved to be "free from that shackle", and is in fact unlikely to ever be happy about it, exactly. I am not surprised that she left though - she'd basically been a single mother all along.
Not sure where you got me claiming to not be flawed out of me saying Nancy was annoying.
Nor did I list "all her transgressions". Just listed off a few of the things that makes her annoying.
I wouldn't go so far as to consider someone providing for you "hellish", but to each thier own.
Like I said before, it's just a huge sigh of relief she'll have less time in Season 3. She complained in every scene she was in.
Sometimes characters are meant to be annoying by the writers and director. If you feel annoyed, it means the actress is doing a good job.
shareExcept that I am four episodes in now, and aside from a really bad perm, there is absolutely nothing wrong with her.
This is the OP's problem, if anything.
Some people are fine with gratingly annoying characters. Some people feel the need to stick up for people just for the sake of sticking up for them. I understand.
If you knew anybody IRL that incessantly complained and nagged with EVERY SINGLE human interaction, you might have a differing opinion. Maybe not.
Reddit understands how annoying she is, at least. Not as many people quick to defend someone just for the sake of defending them.
**SEASON 2 SPOILERS**
In every single scene she's in, she complains or gets all passive aggressive. Even back in season one, now they just kicked it into overdrive.
You want desperately for your kid to socialize with others and for your husband to show your child some support? Might as well complain when he gets dirty and give your husband dirty looks when he comments to support him.
Want your husband to socialize with people he isn't interested in socializing with after a 60 hour work week?
Might as well get pissed when he takes part in conversation with them.
When people are practically begging you to talk about a subject and you take part, it doesn't mean that nobody wants to hear it. It simply means that everybody involved is perfectly content with the conversation except you.
She always complains about everything. Him not being home a lot is another. It's somehow his fault that he spends his time at work providing for his family to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. Gotta love it.
If he took more time off and spent it with them, she'd just be all over them about money instead.
Feel bad for Tench for sure. He can't win no matter what he does.
Although the last episode made me feel bad for Tench, I'm glad he's finally free from that shackle and Nancy will hopefully get less to no screen time next season.
She was insufferable. Tench just couldn’t win.
*Spoiler*
I couldn’t believe in the last episode that she took practically everything from the house. From bed sheets - to the pictures on the walls. What an absolute asshole thing to do.
I'm so with you that it came as a surprise to read the first reply in this thread, where the person thought you must be referring to her voice.
No, she's...your word is perfect: insufferable. Jesus criminy this lady is insufferable.
I get it, she's having a difficult time, she's afraid, she's...whatever. But every. step. of the way with having her boy processed out of police custody, she's arguing, she's defensive...and she shows a complete separation not only from reality, but from reason.
I couldn't help but sympathize with the people trying to do their job, who have to answer to this defensive Mother who's fighting them every step of the way, even when they're just wanting to do what's best for her son. No, she doesn't want to think that he has any issues needing addressed, but her reflexive need to butt heads with any notion that he might...it doesn't necessarily paint her as someone who's truly concerned for the good of her child. No, she seems like someone who just can't cope...and may have some control issues.
And griping...holy crap can this woman gripe. Her husband is in the middle of the biggest investigation of his life, 19 kids missing or dead, and she's just not having it. I get that its a lot to ask, that she be okay with holding down the fort while her husband works to save the future victims of this serial killer, and I'd be more okay with her disposition if it were truly about their little boy needing his father.
But they barely have a relationship, father and son here, the boy is withdrawn (it has to be autism, right?) and I think you'd have a hard time arguing that Dench's presence is vital for their child's well being. No, IMO his presence is needed for HER, and I think that's what bothers me the most about her.
But honestly, its also the writing, and always have to have this kind of conflict with the same archetype wife who "just can't even..." and harps on her husband "You just have to come hooome! Come hooome!". It gets old and I wish she'd shuttup lol
Agree with all of this
shareAgree to all of this, too!! I haaaate her!
OH! And when she first finds out that it was the little boy they knew from church that died in her listing, and she seems so upset because, well, a baby died, and they knew that family, etc. The idea of that makes me cry.
But then, through tears, she asks, "Was he on the new carpet?" and "Did they have to break a window to get in?"
And I just want to scream at her. Like, she sounds more upset about her goddamn listing than the situation at hand.
It's either showing that she was clearly in shock, or it's showing that she's a total cunt. I'm not sure which. But I'm leaning toward the latter.
I agree.She's just a whining,too-much-time-on-her-hands bitch,while her husband works his ass off in a grisly career.
shareShe's still not as insufferable as Holden's girlfriend in season one. I'm on a rewatch and I'd forgotten how dreadful and pointless she is. Thank goodness they dropped her before season two started.
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