Couldn’t disagree more, she was a straight man for her husband, the interference from her MIL and her husband’s indifference to her complaints were one of the main plot lines and that made her seem nagging. I thought she was the best on the show save for Boyle.
Boyle was a pretty darn good actor — a rabid, foaming at the mouth, lunatic liberal, but a good actor nonetheless. Apparently he and Patricia Heaton had quite a few political battles on the set when the cameras weren’t rolling.