Meredith found no problem getting into character being from Ohio herself and also working in education. While others worked on western/southern/and other accents, Meredith lets her ‘Ohio-ness’ shine right on through. Maybelle’s questionable past took her around the world and back again, but now she walks the straight and narrow…or so it seems. Could there be more to this cliché-quoting, vocabulary-drilling schoolmarm? Meredith likes that Maybelle has a ‘sharp’ edge to her and ‘shoots’ some witty remarks to her fellow actors.