""They took the wife/mother archetype and turned it on its head.""
""I am so happy we are getting to learn more about Barb and her complexity, her nuances, her humanity," Turner tells Inverse. "She wasn't lying when she said she was trying to protect her family.""
Barb Howard is revealed to have been coerced by Dr. Siggi Wilzig into proposing Vault‑Tec's plan to trigger nuclear war, rather than being the original mastermind. Dr. Siggi had been beheaded by Lucy MacLean in Season 1, and his motives for coercing Barb remain unclear. The Season 2 revelation reframes Barb as a cog in a larger corporate machine and mitigates her perceived culpability. Barb's primary motivation centers on protecting husband Cooper and their daughter. Frances Turner emphasizes Barb's complexity, nuances, and humanity, and Episode 6 allows Barb to tell part of her side, providing catharsis and partial vindication.
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