Why Beverly Hofstadter Became One of The Big Bang Theory's Most Unsettling Characters
And completely convinced that she was doing the right thing. Christine Baranski understood exactly how to play that contradiction. The result was a character who could make audiences laugh one second and feel deeply uncomfortable the next. Beverly wasn't frightening because she was evil. She was frightening because she genuinely believed she was a good mother. And that made Leonard's lifelong search for approval one of the show's most quietly powerful character stories.
