In Los Angeles, Bernadette was a genius who received a Macarthur Genius Grant to complete an architectural masterpiece. After Bernadette moved to Seattle, she becomes a shell of herself. She ignores the decrepit condition of her new home and makes all of her purchases using a virtual assistant. Bee shows disdain towards her mother once Bernadette goes missing. She believes that her mother abandoned her family. Maya goes through a similar sense of abandonment with her mother. Maya’s parents sent Maya and her brother to Momma after they divorced. When Maya lived with her mother in St. Louis, she felt distant from her mother. After Maya was raped by Mr. Freeman, Vivian sent her children back to Stamps because she did not know how to connect with her daughter. Maya wants to connect to her mother but Vivian shuts her out. Each mother fails their child in a way but they redeem themselves in the eyes of their
In Los Angeles, Bernadette was a genius who received a Macarthur Genius Grant to complete an architectural masterpiece. After Bernadette moved to Seattle, she becomes a shell of herself. She ignores the decrepit condition of her new home and makes all of her purchases using a virtual assistant. Bee shows disdain towards her mother once Bernadette goes missing. She believes that her mother abandoned her family. Maya goes through a similar sense of abandonment with her mother. Maya’s parents sent Maya and her brother to Momma after they divorced. When Maya lived with her mother in St. Louis, she felt distant from her mother. After Maya was raped by Mr. Freeman, Vivian sent her children back to Stamps because she did not know how to connect with her daughter. Maya wants to connect to her mother but Vivian shuts her out. Each mother fails their child in a way but they redeem themselves in the eyes of their