In my review of the last teenage drama series I saw, I mentioned how dramatic the lead, Devi, was. She was dramatic and funny, but I can't say the same for Ginny in Ginny & Georgia. All teenage drama fans gather around, I'm back with another review of one of your favourite genres.
Ginny & Georgia is a Netflix series that aired its first season in April 2021. It stars Antonia Gentry, Brianne Howey, Diesel La Torraca, and other talented actors. It's a 10-episode series and a second season is set to be aired anytime this year.
It's a story about a mother and daughter navigating their relationship while living off the proceeds from the mother's con-woman ways unknown to the daughter. The show also explores social issues like racism with Ginny being a mixed girl.
Other issues the show explores are self-harm, suicide, body image, sex and consent. Basically, everything that teenagers go through in these times.
I think this show is two shows in one. I would have loved to see Georgia separate, doing her own thing and conning her way through life. She's a strong lead and it felt like the Ginny character was a draw-back to the amazing-ness of Georgia.
Georgia would have been a fantastic show minus the teenage-ness Ginny and others bring to it. Ginny alone would also have been great, as a teenage drama fan I can never have too much of those. Putting both together just seems miscalculated to me.
Now to the story, I blame Georgia for not being open with her daughter about her ways. Yep, her parenting is kinda shitty if we're being unrealistic. One reason I like Marty from Ozark is that he made it known to the kids that he was involved in shady business and that made the kids less shitty.
Georgia here isn't straightforward with her daughter and this makes Ginny do dumb stuff that would have been avoided if she came clean with her.
I happened to watch this show when a trendy conversation was on about 13-year-olds having sex and it made me a bit uneasy. This show is PG-rated but I sure as hell would want to see it if I was 13.
In my mind, half the cast being teenagers means it's a teenage movie, I think I speak for 13-year-olds around the world. Be mindful of what your kids watch though.
So back to the Ginny character, my goodness, this girl is annoying, dramatic but in an annoying way. All of her new friends actually like her but she ends up ruining it just like Devi from Never Have I Ever.
We can attribute her behaviour to the constant change of environment she has had to go through for years and how hard it is for her to adapt. The effect of the instability can also be seen in her younger brother too.
A take-home from this for parents could be, try as much as possible to create stability for your kids, not everyone can deal with change easily.
The plot of this show got lost on me, midway in and I was tired already because it seemed like it wasn't heading anywhere. I wanted more of Georgia but I wasn't getting that. Maybe in the next season there'd be more on her, I would really enjoy that.
After Georgia who is obviously my favourite character, the other character I liked and wanted more of is Ellen. She's the fuck them kids kind of mum, and who doesn't enjoy this character on their screen?
The actors were great, the teenagers are all short for their real ages though because I was surprised to find out they're all at least 21 years old. I felt relieved knowing they are adults in real life because, all that kissing and sex at 15? Phew. Great casting of childish-looking people though.
The teenage drama part of the show was not giving what it was supposed to give and for the first time, I longed to see the adults more in a supposed teenage drama.
Well, it's not that I'm intrigued by Ginny & Georgia but I look forward to the next season. I need to know what's next for scandalous Georgia.
Have you seen this show? What do you think?
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