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I appreciate everything you’ve done for me, I do, but don’t for a second think you know anything about me or my life. I’ve been a nun for 30 years. I know self-pity when I hear it.
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I have a special gift, too. I’m impervious to bad attitude. So you can throw your self-pitying bullshit at me all day, and I’ll still be standing right here.
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Our son is too much like you, Jack.
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Well, you’d actually have to try to know.
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Although people have died on my watch, people who shouldn’t have, there are countless others that have lived.
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Maggie: “I was constantly anxious. I’d go days without a minute’s sleep. I had no appetite and no patience. My brain started storming with hideous thoughts. That I was letting you down. That I was somehow failing you because a mother is supposed to be happy, and all I could do was cry. That you weren’t safe with me, and yet I’d die if you were taken away. Back then, doctors didn’t really understand postpartum depression. They waved it away as ‘baby blues’, but in a lot of women, it’s very real. It’s not a funk, it’s an illness. One that’s impossible to talk about without feeling ashamed. I was sick with depression. […] Jack tried to understand, but the more he tried to reassure me… the more frightened I became.”
Daredevil vol. 4 #7 by Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez
I’m probably going to be posting a fair bit about Sister Maggie, because I love her and was nervous about her being adapted into this show… and then they went and did her absolutely right. One important element that I was nervous about was how the show would approach her reason for leaving Jack and Matt– whether it would dig into the vaguely-implied Catholic guilt that was used for years, or whether it would adopt the postpartum depression explanation put forth in Mark Waid’s run. And they kind of did both: Maggie returns to the church believing her mental illness to be divine punishment for her transgression. But I am incredibly happy and grateful that they used Waid’s version of her story– both because I consider his to be one of the best Daredevil runs of all time, and am disheartened that it has barely been referenced at all in this show– and because Maggie’s struggle with postpartum depression is such a powerful addition to her narrative. The show didn’t push it to the same extreme as the comics (she actually tries to hurt baby Matt in the source material, which is what incites her to leave), but even just having it touched upon was good enough for me.
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You look ready to smile, which I’m sure in your case means… Well, I don’t know what that could mean, as I’ve never actually seen one.
“Whalley is set to play the steel-spined Sister Maggie in the upcoming new cycle of the Marvel series. In the Frank Miller-penned Daredevil comics, Sister Maggie nurses Matt Murdock back to full strength. Oh, and she has a close family connection too in the comics – so that may be thrown into the small screen mix.
"’We are big fans of Joanne’s work and are fortunate that someone of her caliber will be joining our already talented family,’ said Marvel TV boss and Daredevil EP Jeph Loeb today of Whalley joining the cast. ‘Joanne is a rare talent and a terrific creative collaborator,” declared Oleson. “Watching her bring her role to life has the writers all pinching ourselves.'”
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Maggie Murdock healing her son when he was a child & now as an adult.
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Daredevil #230 | The Defenders s01e08