.belfryfire pens a defense of Peggy Hill, our deeply flawed and sometimes misguided heroine of hope:
Next to Hank, Peggy is’s most complex character, and a keen satire on the way Southern suburbia mollifies women with talent into embittered sidekick roles to mediocre men. The veracity of her character is thanks in part to an impeccable performance by Kathy Najimy, who provides a deliciously varied and inimitable delivery to Mike Judge’s more controlled Hank Hill.
They wind up lamenting all the things they never got to do, mostly because of Hank—they couldn’t have any other kids because of Hank’s narrow urethra, they threw away their dream of making a world-renowned steak sauce because Hank abandoned the project before it began, and they never travel because Hank is much more content staying put in Texas. Feeling squirrely amid stagnant feelings, Peggy witnesses a few parachuters floating down to Earth.
But Peggy also leans on her motherhood for a sense of superiority when her other modes of arrogance are challenged; in “Peggy’s Pageant Fever” when confronted with a young and hot contestant who thinks nothing of her intellectual pursuits, Peggy boasts about her one child in comparison to the other contestant’s none. But unlike all of Peggy’s other pursuits and flights of fancy, she isn’t propelled merely by her hypercompetitive spirit when she talks about motherhood.
At times, Peggy reminds me keenly of my own mother. Despite being born and raised in the same rural landscape she’s always known, she carries a great pride that she clings to when nothing else is left. My mom, too, once suffered a great injury—after a car wreck, she was suspended in a coma for four months. After waking up, she could barely speak and went through rigorous physical therapy to return to about 50% of her previous strength.
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