WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 2 of Feel Good, now streaming on Netflix.
In Netflix's Feel Good, Season 2 focuses a lot more on Mae's dark past to inform fans what broke her before she moved to England to pursue a comedy career. She ends up visiting Canada a couple times, going home to address issues with old friends, and in the process, she tries to heal wounds with her parents, Malcolm and Linda. As a result, we finally get a major mystery solved, and it repairs her family at last.
In Season 1, viewers saw how controlling these parents were. Admittedly, they didn't want Mae to spiral into drugs and crime again, which led to her coming to Canada for a brief rehab stint. There, they didn't trust her, with Linda still berrating Mae for stealing jewelled eggs.
The ornaments were expensive, and Linda's adamant Mae stole them as a teen to fuel her drug habit; however, Mae's never owned up to this, making it clear she didn't take the relics. When she comes back, this time with her girlfriend, George, the issue arises once more.
Linda just can't let it go, as it's her go-to in order to paint Mae as a selfish villain. Interestingly, whenever this pops up, Malcolm always finds a way to exit stage left and distance himself from the argument and drama. Well, he finally comes clean when another heated debate breaks out, admitting he's to blame.
He takes them to the backyard and digs up the jewels, showing the items in a broken state of disrepair. When putting his model airplanes on the shelf, he knocked the eggs over, and seeing them shatter threw him into a panic. Since then, he's kept the secret because he knew how much they meant to Linda. While it's comedic, it's disappointing because he let Linda berate Mae and push her away for years. This drove Mae to become more of a rebel, dabbling in coke and acting out against law enforcement.
It's terrible parenting, as he could have owned up earlier and patched this rift with Mae. It's irresponsible that a dad would let his daughter get abused like this, especially as Linda wrote Mae off, treating her like a criminal based on a false assumption. At this point, Linda can't even get mad at her husband; she just regrets how wrong she was.
She apologizes to Mae for neglecting her and falsely accusing her, with Malcolm hating how he enabled things. Mae accepts it and moves on, but the parents are hurt as they realize how much of the fracture was their fault because of Malcolm's juvenile dishonesty, as well as Linda's superficiality.
Feel Good stars Mae Martin, Charlotte Ritchie, Lisa Kudrow, Phil Burgers and Adrian Lukis. Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.