Bones Fans Have Some Pretty Strong Opinions About Booth's Mom

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Booth's mother is deeply disliked by fans

Booth is the kind of alpha male who rarely likes to speak about his hardships. Vulnerabilities and heartaches are never something he would offer up to people without deep trust and understanding. Therefore, information on his family is hard to come by... at least, at the beginning of the series. One of the more intriguing facts comes in Season 11, Episode 17, "The Secret in the Service," when viewers discover that Seely Booth is related to notorious John Wilkes Booth.

When Joanna Cassidy was cast to bring the long-lost Marianne Booth to life in Season 8, fans wondered how the two would interact. There were obviously unresolved feelings as she disappeared and left him and his brother at the mercy of their father. When asked by TV Line about bringing her into the show, Boreanaz said, "I think the relationship just in general is better with his mother than it was with his father, so it'll be something that we look at and try to figure out how we're going to incorporate it into the storylines."

When she returns, though, it is to ask Booth to give her away at her wedding to another man. And while Booth's mother wasn't the one who abused him, her inaction — and the way she returns — rubs viewers the wrong way. After all, who could just forgive being abandoned with an abusive parent? As Redditor u/Wrong-Disaster-125 says, "If my mother left me with an abusive parent, she could stay gone." And u/AlbatrossSenior7107 agreed with the poster and validated Booth's negative reaction. "I JUST posted about this. 100% agree. His reaction was 1000% normal. I hate what they did with this. Very happy she was blip in the storyline."