Possible unpopular opinion
I might get heat for this, but I have to say it at least once......I lothed Bridget Reardon. She was an obnoxious, jealous, hateful bully. She never really faced lasting consequences for how she acted, I genuinely don't know how she is such a favorite outside her being related to Maureen(there are better members of the Reardon family). Because she is just an awful person with a handful of decent moments. I think the show was going for the opposite of that & I guess it worked on a lot of people(but not me). The writing bending over backwards for her didn't help either. As soon as she had her trap baby with Hart it's like she became some fucking saint all of Springfield should feel sorry for and it drove me so crazy. I felt bad for her when Maureen died and when Nadine took Peter but even then, she kinda held her own & got her way again, custody battle notwithstanding, once Vanessa entered the picture). But outside of that, literally all her problems were self-inflicted, and I could not give a damn. Plus, they made Julie a pycho in some ass backwards justification as to why Bridget treated her like trash for over 3 years. Like fuck that.