r/TheGoldbergs • u/Illustrious_Novel305 • Jul 20 '25
Does Beverly ever apologize to her kids/anyone?
The show has a lot of entertaining episodes but I just cant seem to finish binge watching it because of her. Shes so unbearable, controlling and manipulative(this probably has been said multiple times in this sub). She’s literally pretending that she was okay with Barry spending Thanksgiving with his girlfriend and her dad then proceed to go by her their house and force them to spend Thanksgiving at her house just so Barry doesn’t leave her to spend time with them wtf
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u/SugarSweetSonny Jul 21 '25
Beverly is a textbook narcissist but played for laughs.
She does apologize and the sincerity is questionable but the show formula required her to never really learn her lesson and to immediately go back to the way she was the next episode.
IRL, she would be considered highly toxic, the whole family would.
It's a comedy though so its kind of spun for laughs.
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u/searcher4421 Jul 21 '25
It's funny because throughout the series everyone in the family, even Murray and Albert, have said that she makes everything worse.
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u/Tgun1986 Jul 21 '25
Or she learns her lesson but gets bored with butting out and goes back to her old ways. Felt bad for Adam, she wouldn’t let him grow
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u/Illustrious_Novel305 Jul 22 '25
True so it sounds like she’s flanderized throughout the show?
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u/SugarSweetSonny Jul 22 '25
Pretty much. They take her negatives and really push them to ridiculous lengths but at the same time sanitize them because, well its a family comedy show.
Her and the mom from off the boat started basically becoming almost identical at one point.
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u/bunbunnii99 Jul 20 '25
I think a lot of apologies in families can be non-verbal, like my sister and I will fight, but then one of us will ask if the other wants to go hang out or will help with smth and that’s the “apology”, if that makes sense. So while she might not verbally apologize much, she does non-verbally apologize a little more frequently (like moms tend to do in my experience lol). But it’s a sitcom so of course things go back to the way they were before usually, like most tv shows
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u/Significant-Can-557 Jul 23 '25
They all do the same thing. Her kids treat everyone else badly too- they just have more depth so you don’t notice as much.
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u/searcher4421 Jul 20 '25
She does, but it really doesn't matter because she'll just go back to her usual ways in the next episode; which make her apologies completely pointless.
Plus she'll usually find a way to make them apologize to her.