Major spoilers below for anyone who doesn’t have precognition abilities and who hasn’t yet streamed The Institute ’s Season 1 finale on MGM+, so be warned!

Mary-Louise Parker has portrayed myriad empathy-earning characters throughout her career, from Fried Green Tomatoes ’ Ruth to Angels in America ’s Harper to even Weeds ’ Nancy. She’s not known for villainous roles, at least not until joining The Institute , her second streaming Stephen King adaptation. (Her first: the excellent-if-underseen Mr. Mercedes .) Novel readers likely expected her nefarious child-torturing Ms. Sigsby to get killed off by Season 1’s conclusion, but the live-action series kept things open-ended, and the Season 2 renewal couldn’t have been timed better.

As seen in the video above, the Emmy-

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