Mary Margaret O'Connell (born 1962), known as Maggie, is played by actress Janine Turner.
Maggie was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She became a bush pilot at an early age and went to Alaska with her boyfriend Dave, who was writing a book on mountain climbing. He fell asleep unprotected on a glacier and froze to death.
Maggie remained in the small town of Cicely, Alaska, flying an air taxi and supplementing her income as the local real estate agent.[1][2] She serves a term as mayor of Cicely.[3]
Personality[]
Maggie is a strong-willed, independent feminist but also has a soft side. Her main role model is Amelia Earhart.[4] When she was a child she wrote a letter to herself and, later in life after rediscovering the letter, manifests her younger self.[5] She also wanted to be detective extraordinaire Nancy Drew.[6] She gets to be a Homecoming queen[7] and becomes obsessed with dust mites.[8] One of the earliest moments of tenderness from Maggie comes when she reads Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 at the funeral for the unknown man. [9]
Family[]
- Mother, Jane O'Connell (who visits and burns her house down and tells her she is divorcing her father[10] and she sees again at her grandmother's 80th birthday)[11]
- Father, Frank O'Connell, the youngest CEO in automotive history (who comes to visit her once; calls her "Peanut")[9]
- Brother, Jeff ("Jeffie")[11]
- Grandmother ("Grammy")[11]
Occupations[]
- Bush Pilot
- Air Taxi
- Postal Worker
- Courier
- Mechanic [12]
- Engineer [13]
- Real Estate Agent [14]
- Landlord [15]
- Property Superintendent [16]
- Entrepreneur [17]
- Mayor [3]
Maggie owns her own Cessna 170 airplane and works on it several times [18][19] [5] ... and even put together a kit plane with her own modifications and other improvements. [20] Besides her handywoman skills, she also works on her pickup truck and snowmobile,[21] and helps Chris restore a Ford Model T. [22]
Love Life[]
She has a love-hate relationship with Joel, who she thinks she has sex with once, [23] [24] eventually does have sex with [25] ("forgets", but he reminds her: "last Tuesday in a barn at 1:46 PM"), [21] and even gets engaged to. [26] They finally agree they have a "mutually desirous incompatibility". [27] However, in the end, she ends up with Chris. [28] When she was growing up in Grosse Pointe, Jed liked her. [11] [29] She has a brief "spring fantasy fling" with a bear deity. [30]
Victims Of The "O'Connell Curse"[]
Maggie's past boyfriends all died in improbable accidents. Cicely residents attribute this to the "O'Connell Curse", though Maggie hates talking about it.
- Steve Escandon was hit by lightning while photographing an oil rig for a corporation's annual report.
- Harry ate tainted potato salad on a picnic.
- Bruce had an unspecified fishing accident.
- Glen took a wrong turn while driving his Volvo Car (according to Chris) onto a missile test range.
- Dave took a nap on a glacier and froze to death.
- Rick Pederson (a recurring character in season 1) was hit by a falling artificial satellite shortly after learning he did not have cancer.[31]
Since The Curse[]
On her 30th birthday, while camping next to a river, she gets sick and "meets" them all in a hallucination / vision.[32]
During season 4, Maggie has a brief relationship with Mike Monroe, a lawyer with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. [33] In his case, the curse works in reverse: he is cured of his condition and inspires to practice environmental law. [34]
It is implied that Joel would have died from the curse if he stayed with Maggie. [35]
Maggie's mother may have the curse too. [36]
Address[]
P.O. Box 86 Cicely, Alaska 99729 - 0086.
References[]
- ↑ Pilot (1-1)
- ↑ "The Bad Seed" (4-7)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Realpolitik" (6-10)
- ↑ Joel first likens Maggie to Earhart in "Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence" (1-2). Maggie mentions Earhart as a "woman who didn't toe the traditional female line" in "Get Real" (3-9). In "Heroes" (4-4), Maggie says Earhart is more of an influence than a hero. Maggie's brother Jeffrey asks Joel if Maggie's plane-flying is some "Amelia Earhart complex", in "Grosse Pointe 48230" (4-14).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "The Letter" (6-4)
- ↑ "The Mystery of the Old Curio Shop" (5-2)
- ↑ "A River Doesn't Run Through It" (5-5)
- ↑ "Mite Makes Right" (5-13)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "All Is Vanity" (2-3) Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 "Grosse Pointe 48230" (4-14)
- ↑ Season 3, Episode 3.
- ↑ Season 5, Episode 20.
- ↑ Particularly Season 4, Episode 7 ... The Bad Seed.
- ↑ Pilot.
- ↑ Season 4, Episode 7 ... The Bad Seed, among others.
- ↑ "The Graduate" (6-17)
- ↑ "Oy, Wilderness" (3-3)
- ↑ "Kaddish for Uncle Manny" (4-22)
- ↑ "A Wing and a Prayer" (5-20)
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Love's Labor Mislaid" (4-17)
- ↑ "Lucky People" (6-16)
- ↑ "It Happened in Juneau" (3-21)
- ↑ "Our Wedding" (3-22)
- ↑ "Ill Wind" (4-16)
- ↑ "Full Upright Position" (6-7)
- ↑ "Family Feud" (4-19)
- ↑ "Ursa Minor" (6-21)
- ↑ "Blood Ties" (5-23)
- ↑ "Wake-Up Call" (3-19)
- ↑ "Sex, Lies, and Ed's Tape" (1-6)
- ↑ "Northwest Passages" (4-1)
- ↑ "Duets" (4-13)
- ↑ "Homesick" (4-20)
- ↑ Season 6, Episode 8.
- ↑ "The Mommy's Curse" (6-14)