Ginny & Geogia is back for Season 3 at Netflix and predictably it's No. 1 at the popular streamer.
Georgia Miller (Brianne Howey) starts the season in jail after being charged with murder at the end of Season 2. Her daughter Ginny (Antonia Gentry, who's now 16 in the show) has to deal with the mess. And what a mess it is.
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Georgia has two children with two different husbands. She married Wellsbury Mayor Paul Randolph in Season 2. Then came the arrest. The MIllers are left to pick up the pieces until Georgia's released with an ankle bracelet. Gradually, friends retreat from her and students poke fun at Ginny and Austin (Diesel La Torraca). Georgia's dubbed the "Mayoral Murderess."
Even worse, Paul splits and the two fathers gang up and get child's services to remove the kids from house. All alone, Georgia has plenty of time to cook up alibis.
She maintains she didn't commit a crime we all saw her do in Season 2. It's kind of a case of euthanasia. Georgia decided to snuff out the final breaths of a neighbor's husband who'd been receiving hospice care. But Austin saw her place the pillow over his mouth. Georgia doesn't know this until Ginny tells her.
At the trial, Georgia's rough life (seen in flashbacks with Nikki Roumel playing her younger self) becomes the focus, with a private eye accusing her of murdering two men in the past, though she was never charged. Can Georgia get away with murder one more time?
"Georgia is a career-making role for Brianne Howey."
The other side of Ginny & Georgia is reminiscent of Gossip Girl. By Season 3, Ginny has a solid core of high-school friends who do everything together. Twins Maxine (Waisglass) and Marcus (Felix Mallard) get a lot of screentime. While Maxine's a needy theater girl, Marcus has an alcohol habit. He and Ginny have an off-and-on relationship. During a lull, Ginny dates another boy who gets her pregnant (she has the baby aborted).
Most of the men are annoying, from Marcus, who's alwasy depressed, to Paul, who's disloyal, to the dads who selfishly rip Georgia's kids away from her.
As the title says, Georgia and Ginny remain the focus and Howey and Gentry excel in their roles. The petite Gentry has grown quite a bit over the years; her Ginny blossoms into a poet and begins to take on bits of Georgia's cunning personality. But Georgia is the star of show. If she's not in a scene, you started wondering what's happening with her. Georgia's a Southerner with a thick accent who uses all of her attributes to get what she wants.
It's a career-making role for Howey, who previously appeared in Dollface and The Exorcist. Despite Georgia's checkered past you root for her to overcome her mistakes, even the murderous ones.
Several kids smoke pot. Marcus and Ginny pass a joint in Ep. 1 and Abby (Katie Douglas) hits a pipe. But by Ep. 4, Abby's mom gets strict with her: "No more skipping school to smoke weed."
Marcus is the school's problem child, often getting suspended for bad behavior. His James Dean act is cool but goes unexplained.
By Ep. 10, with Paul out of the picture, Georgia has a new beau, Joe (Raymonf Ablack), But all is not well, despite her exoneration, as Austin and his vengeful father Gil (Aaron Ashmore) still have scores to settle.
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