Bitsy Brandenham is the main antagonist of the Apple TV+ series Central Park. She is the owner of the Brandenham Hotel, and has made it her goal to buy Central Park.
She is voiced by Stanley Tucci, who also played George Harvey in The Lovely Bones, Lord Roderick in Jack the Giant Slayer, Vernon in Beethoven, and Joshua Joyce in Transformers: Edge of Extinction.
Personality[]
Bitsy is a cruel, sarcastic, and negligent individual, who openly cares for her wealth, and her dog, Champagne, but often hides her true feelings for other things. She is very rarely emotionally vulnerable, and tends to write it off with some kinda punchline.
Appearance[]
Bisty is an extremely short caucasian woman, with a large head of white hair. She has green earrings, large glasses, a pink coat with a fur scarf, dark gray pants, and black boots.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Bitsy was born into a rich family, neglected by her father and brother, she grew up mean. She very rarely got to properly talk with her father, but whenever she did, he always encouraged the corrupt habits that she has currently.
Eventually, she began stealing from her father's hotel out of spite, becoming a criminal known as the Shadow. She was never caught for this, and got away with it, until her father passed away, and she inherited the hotel.
Season 1[]
In "Episode One", the narrator, Birdie introduces us to Bitsy as the story's villain. We meet Bitsy directly after losing her dog, Champagne, in Central Park, where she sets a $55,000 reward to whoever finds him. After eventually the park manager, Owen Tillerman, and his son, Cole, bring the dog back, Bisty decides to begin the process of purchasing the place, by concocting a scheme with Mayor Whitney Whitebottom.
In "Skater's Circle", The mayor convinces the park league to freeze the ratification contract, as she speaks to rich investors to her plan.
Throughout the season, she tries her best to make the park look like a disaster, and make the staff look incompetent, to varying levels of success. Paying off people to make the staff's jobs borderline impossible.
In "Rival Busker", Bitsy tries to get financial backing for her plans from one of the investors from earlier, Dimitri, having to host his daughter's wedding at the Hotel. It goes well, and she gets his support.
In "Squirrel, Interrupted", Bitsy visits her brother Ambrose on his large estate, where she announces to her family her buyout plans, only for none of them to be impressed. She prepares to leave, highly upset, when her great nephew Brendon shows up and tells her he thinks she's wrong for trying to buy the park, which is the exact reaction she wanted, so she perks up.
In "Live It Up Tonight", Bitsy gets trapped in a wine cellar with Helen, forcing the two to spend quality time together. This causes Bitsy to show empathy for the first time, saying "If she has to die, trapped in a storage room underground with someone, she could do a lot worse", she plays it off as a joke, but it's clear she DID mean it.
In the season finale, "A Fish Named Snakehead", this all culminates in a truly embarrassing screw up, when she hired a guy to catch a dangerous Snakehead in the Harlem Meer, and he instead faked it, getting her called out on a public newspaper. She swears to have her revenge.
Season 2[]
In "Central Dark", Bitsy and Helen go to a press conference in New Jersey, just so Bitsy can show off the Central Park buyout plans to her rival hotel owners, however directly after this there's a massive blackout, and her rivals, led by Leslie Portergrave, attempt to steal the plans back from her. Bitsy and Helen manage to escape. Once they return to the hotel, Portergrave shows up and tries to threaten Helen for the plans. Bitsy ends up seemingly giving in, handing him the briefcase containing the plans for Helen's life. However it is quickly revealed she removed the plans from the case first.
In "Of Course You Realize This Means Ward", Bitsy attempts to write her memoir, with Helen's help. This leads to her calling Ambrose to help remember something, but it turns out he is also writing a memoir. This leads to a race to the publishers to see who can get their book published first. Once they arrive, it turns out both books are awful, and way too short. Bitsy's is better, but not by much. This leads to Bitsy questioning why she thinks it's so important to impress her late parents.
In "The Shadow", She gets an unexpected interruption, a man who is investigating a case at the hotel that's eerily similar to the old Shadow heists. After Bitsy confesses to everything, he reveals he faked the whole thing just for the answer. This ends up becoming one of Bitsy's only positive interactions, where it becomes clear she desperately wants his attention and friendship, but doesn't know how to say it.
In "Where There's Smoke" Helen manages to get the backing of a Swiss philanthropist , pushing the other rivals to also invest in the Park Deal, giving her just what she needs to seal the deal.
In the Season 2 finale, "The Lyin' In Winter", Bitsy heads to the mayor's office to close the deal, only for her car to crash, and for her to get rescued by Owen Tillerman. Meanwhile Paige figures out that there's another corporation involved in the Park deal, one owned by Ambrose. Bitsy gets the park, but Ambrose gets the Brandenham Hotel, and this causes Bitsy to realize that the park is useless without the Brandenham, and that the Brandenham is her heart, her most valued thing in life. So she goes over to the Mayor's office, and with Owen and Paige's help, manages to stop the deal from happening. She promises she's still gonna buy the park, but it's clear she's grown a bit from this situation.
Gallery[]
