 Friday, happy Friday. Good morning, Ginny. Welcome to Friday. Today we're going to be diving into a Netflix series. This series recently just dropped their season two, and I would like to talk about it with you guys. Today we're going to be talking about Ginny and Georgia. Listen, I wasn't going to do a video on it. I was like, it is what it is. I'm not going to do a video on it. When the first season dropped, it was a lot to handle. I thought it was going to be like a throwaway Netflix show. I thought, you know, maybe a few people will watch it. It'd probably get a season two, and it would kind of fade out. No. Season one was epic. And by epic, I do not mean the quality of the show. I have many, many issues with the first season. But this show was talked about. Like when I mean talked about, I mean talked about. Like everybody was talking about Ginny and Georgia and the mess that it was. And then to top it all off, it had a scandal surrounding it. Season one drops, and there is a line of dialogue. A character says to another character, you go through men faster than Taylor Swift. And Taylor Swift did not like this. She sends a paragraph tweet with it. Ending it with the best thing I've ever read in my entire life, Happy Women's History Month, I guess. Taylor Swift is nowhere to be seen after that Happy Women's History Month, I guess. Poof, she's gone. As much as I'm like, yeah, Taylor Swift can say what she wants. There's no stopping her. But the fact that she didn't say anything when the actress of the show, who doesn't even write the show, was getting really racist comments thrown at her and death threats, like Happy Women's History Month, I guess. Why would you end the tweet like that, and then just to let your fans hate on this young woman? Something's not adding up. But this only brought more attention to the show, and we got a season two, and season two just dropped this month. And oh boy, was it a ride. We're going to be talking about it all. We're going to be talking about season one and season two. We're going to be talking about characters. We're going to be talking about plotlines, and we're going to be talking about all the issues that Ginny and Georgia has. I'm so excited. Putting aside Taylor Swift and Women's History Month, let's dive into Ginny and Georgia. This show has a very similar energy to like Gilmore Girls. It's very like slice of life type of show, but it has this big twist, which also involves crime. So it's like, we're getting into Riverdale territory, which I'm not mad at. The first season was definitely not that great. It definitely had a, this is so bad, it's good appeal to it. I think when it comes to the high schoolers in the show, so Ginny and her friends, they give them such bad dialogue that it makes you take their story less serious. When a lot of their story points for the teenagers are very good story points, they just have a bad execution. And it's not necessarily the actor's fault either. It's a major dialogue problem. Season one was difficult. And that mainly goes for dialogue surrounding, like I said, the teenagers. The show has an oversaturation of pop culture references and young teenage slang, which just doesn't communicate properly through the screen. It's not the best idea to include so many pop culture references or topical zingers, because they will be expired probably a month after you write them. But I think they do such an oversaturation that even now we're like, this is so like three months ago, like I can tell the exact point in time you wrote this, like 2021 February, you wrote that then we're going to speed run through some characters, some side characters. So we already know we got Ginny, Georgia, Austin, Austin is a little boy in the family. We got Paul, Paul's the mayor. We have Joe, Joe is coffee shop owner and he is also long time friendly interaction. With Georgia, he met her when they were in high school and they had a very brief encounter of niceties exchanged and no one knows it yet. We have Maxine. We have Abby. We have Nora. This is the girl group. This is the girl group. They refer to themselves as Meng. I couldn't tell you what made them choose that decision, but I'll let them have it. We have Marcus. Marcus is Maxine's twin sister. Sister Ian. Brother Ian. He's brooding. He draws. He's almost kind of like, oh my God, he's kind of like Xavier from Wednesday. Keep that in mind for later. The only other teen boy that I really know of is Hunter. There's a bunch of other stragglers within the mix. I think there's a guy named Press. We also have one more adult, which is Ginny's father, Zion. Fine man, fine ass man. Oh my God. Ginny and Hunter get together in the first season and it's almost unbearable to watch. It's the most awful thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Hunter is so cringy. That's the only way I can describe it. He's weird. He sings. He tap dances and not in a fun, glee way in a weird way. He's weird. You're a weirdo. And they have a full on dialogue moment, a argument later on. They think they're so multicultural and so diverse for being this mixed race couple, which they are. I'll give them that. They have one of the worst scenes that's ever been written where they talk about their oppression, which has got to be the most awful thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Because if we're going to play that game, let's do it. Oppression Olympics. Let's go. I didn't need to see it. Could have ruined the entire show. It's so close to doing it because it is such a bad scene. It is so poorly written. All of their scenes together seem very forced, which is what they're trying to do because they're trying to prove that Ginny and Hunter should not be together. Ginny and Marcus should be together because Marcus and Ginny have chemistry. And he also climbs through her window and they lost their virginity together when he climbed through her window, which was a really weird scene. And she thought that he was just taking over Ginny, but really they're both losing their virginity and I hated it. In the first season, you got him cheating on his girlfriend Padma for no damn reason. Like he didn't even know Ginny before he started like making out with her or like making moves on her. Like he didn't even know her. It wasn't even like they even tried to not do that. Like he like literally did not try. He was like, I'm going to ruin some lives today and I'm going to cheat. Unwarranted. Like he didn't even know Ginny. He just did it. Like men are trash. He is trash. Like it wasn't even like they like started hanging out and like started developing feelings. He just like went for it. He was like, I'm going to have sex with this girl. I don't even know her. Not even sure I like her. I'm going to do it though. I'm going to do it. Why would you start a plot like that? Like I get it. They were trying to be like, oh, like they shouldn't, but they will. Like it's like kind of forbidden, but it's like, but like someone needs to tell someone that like forbidden love is not that fun when they're like cheating. The first season kind of goes by and it's fine. It's a show. It's tries to do a lot at once, which I get it because it's the first season, but it is a lot going on. And it's trying to be like where the show that can be your slice of life and tackle heart subjects to like a boy meets world type of thing. We're like, we can be your slice of life and tackle issues like racism and mental health. And as much as I do appreciate that, I think it just seemed like a lot for the first season. There are like teen mom, biracial daughter, predominantly white town, ex-husband dead. Like it was like a lot to kind of like get the point across in the first season. For me, that's why I ended up not liking it that much. But in the second season, since they have that groundwork, it does pay off. Anyways, moving on to the second season because not much happens in the first season other than Ginny finding out that her mom murdered her ex-husband and being really sad about it and finding a gun and being like, oh my God, I don't know who my mom is. I'm really scared. And Marcus getting into a motorcycle accident and then Ginny running away at the end of the season to go live it with her. Paul proposes to Georgia, which is just like boring. Like Paul is fine, but he's boring. Especially when you have prime candidates like Joe and Zion, are you kidding me? Those delicious hunky men. Are you kidding me? You have those delicious hunky men and you make her go be with the mayor. But it's worth it. It'll be worth it. Joe will be worth it. I'm so sorry. Joe is going to be worth this weight. 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You guys can go to factor75.com or use my code TRINLEVEL60 to get 60% off your first factor box today. This second season does such a good job setting up its main plot points. We have such tension between Ginny and Georgia. Great. We have a wonderful foundation to start this season, this good back and forth of bantering and this complex relationship between Ginny and Georgia. I also forgot to mention in the second season that the character Bracia takes on a way bigger role and I was actually very excited. She actually had a really interesting and entertaining plot with her being in the play. She had a love interest. She had a way bigger role in this season than she did in the first season. So I was really excited to see that and I'm hoping in the third season she gets an even bigger arc. Two of the characters that I really loved in the second season were Abby and Bracia and I hope we get to develop their plot lines a lot more in the third. Second season also transforms Ginny's character majorly. She goes from a very docile, shy, more introverted character, trying to find her footing in the first season to more of a confident outcast in the second season which is really fascinating to watch. In this season, we kind of dial back on what she's dealing with. So she's dealing with finding out her mother killed someone for her and also coming to terms with her self-harming and in the beginning of the season she confides in her dad Zion that she is self-harming. Best part about this show is that they never show the self-harming. They insinuate what's going on on screen but they never show it. It is one of the most crucial parts I consider to be when depicting self-harm. I think showing self-harm depictions and the gore of it is always, always unnecessary. This season does such a good job tackling the subject of self-harm and these feelings that Ginny struggles with. It's very sad, it's hard to watch. Ever seen that showed about self-harm is extremely hard to watch. It is super emotional and I think that they did a really good job showcasing it and showing both of the parents' reactions to what this is. And that's the first time I've ever watched something that, in a while, that depicted these thoughts and this behavior that I really related to and I was like, no, I've literally lived that so well done. The show is very unserious but those scenes, they meant a lot to me. I thought they were so powerful and it could have been really bad and I think they did a really good job on it. Moving on from that, going into a little lighter topic, Max and Nora are really mad because they're really mad at all their friends. They're really mad at Abby and Ginny because Abby told Maxine about Ginny and Marcus but she knew about it for a little bit so that's why they're mad at Maxine and then Maxine is mad at Ginny because she was with her friend and that's just like so difficult. It's just so hard. It's so hard to be the sibling of your best friend's lover. It is so hard. It's not, it's not and I'm gonna like get angry right now. I've watched so many different things where the best friend's brother thing is like such a big deal. It's like the biggest deal in the world and like earth shatters. You have betrayed me. Life cannot go on if you date my mother effing brother. It's like not that big of a deal but she like fucking flips out and she's a complete bitch in the second season for like a few episodes which is a few episodes too long because you should not be this angry over this and that's something that I felt while watching this entire show as much as I did like a lot of the like scenes that they portrayed like Ginny and Georgia and the self-harm aspect, dude so much of this stuff they are getting so angry about I'm like nothing is happening. Season two we finally get Joe realizing, both Joe and Georgia realizing who the other person was I think Georgia knew for a while. The material is there. The material is there and you need to do something with it quick, quickly. Oh my god the first like we're like we're dying for this, we're pining for this slow burn and we get Joe's sex scene and the first Joe's sex scene we get is with Cynthia. What? What? Come on guys. You have got to be shitting me. I just don't think Cynthia is a very necessary character. I guess because she ties into Georgia but for the first sex scene of Joe, hot ass Joe to be with Cynthia was just devastating. In this season Marcus and Ginny are together and stronger than ever. They are doing it all over the place and he is going out with her friends and being social and that's a big thing for him because he's not social, right? Great. I liked them better in the first season only because it was like kind of more pining so it kind of made it better but I digress. I still liked them in the second season. They end up breaking up at the end of the season and then like slightly getting back together because Marcus is like suffering from like depression and he like also doesn't want to hold Ginny back because he made a promise to Georgia that he wouldn't hold Ginny back because Georgia's like you're a small town boy like you're her high school love but you're not the one for her bitch and I was like damn. For a story I think it made sense for like the end of the season to kind of have this like pillar in her life fall. I think that made sense for Ginny's character. I think it's gonna make a lot more sense in season three if they get a season three hopefully. A surprising character that I didn't think I would like that much this season was actually Abby. I loved her character. I think in the first season she was very similar to Maxine in the ways that I didn't like her. Just kind of like not enjoying all that. And in this season when she's distant from Maxine she's way more likeable, way more likeable and I think she also has a really interesting character arc because she is kind of that mirrorball character kind of that will buyers of the story. So I really like that and I really like those types of characters and I'm excited to see what happens with her in the next season. She has a lot of potential and she has a lot going on that kind of falls back in the shadows but if you're really paying attention to her like she's got a lot going on. I thought she got treated like shit in this season though. Mirrorball, I need something better for you quickly because I can't watch you hook up with that man anymore. I can't do it. Another great addition to this season was Austin's dad. Austin's dad gets released from jail. He was in jail for fraud and embezzlement and he starts to see Austin without Georgia's permission and then ends up trying to threaten Georgia and get money from her because she framed him and put him into jail. Great addition. I thought it was really cool to see the interactions between Zion, Paul and Gil. Later on, Ginny and Austin find Gil trying to hurt Georgia and threaten her and they all together as a family stop that man and by all together, Austin takes that gun that's been there and shoots him in the arm. Austin was so real for that. I was so excited. I love that whole scene of them covering up the crime. I hope that Ginny and Georgia turns into a whole crime cover-up story of this family committing crimes and getting away with it. The best part of the show, that was the best part of the season. Even though Paul is not a bad character I hope they just phase him out because he's not very necessary to me. He's very unnecessary. Nora, I think Nora can be gone. Pretty much all the teenage boys except for Marcus are very unnecessary. Hunter, Brody, Press, we can exit now. You don't do anything for us. Add nothing. Thanks. I hate to say it. Max's love life is so boring. Her love life adventures, not at all entertaining. And I hate, it pains me to say that. It pains me to say that because she's the only lesbian character and it's the only lesbian relationship we have on the show. But oh my God, it is so boring. Her whole deal with Sophie was not at all fascinating to me. Kind of just made me cringe, which I get. But like, why are you putting the only lesbian romance and making it awkward and making it cringy? Like the straight couples have a lot of non-awkward moments. Granted, they have like, Ginny and Marcus had like major awkward moments, but they also have some cute, good chemistry moments. Why can't a lesbian couple have that? Oh, because it's including Maxine. And she bothers me. There is something very interesting about Ginny and Georgia and the way that it is curated to be such a fascinating train wreck to where like the first season really doesn't leave you thinking there's much potential. And like in the nicest way possible, I say that. Because it really doesn't make you believe that there is anything good to come from this story. And then the second season drops and it is very, very like fascinating. Like it's so interesting and the plot lines are lining up better and the dialogue is slightly better and then these characters are getting more fascinating in ways that I didn't believe was possible. And I'm very much almost hoping and begging for a third season because I think it would do really well. Which we haven't seen many shows depicting a longevity of a career. A lot of these shows look like they're going to phase out within the season or two. And I really do see Ginny and Georgia kind of lasting a while to have that longevity and that household name. Like you got Degrassi, The Secret Life of American Teenager, Gossip Girl Wentree Hill, like Gilmore Girls. All these types of shows that lasted a pretty long time and really made a name for themselves. I haven't seen a show depict that type of longevity until this show. And like Euphoria obviously, but that's like, you know, very different show. But it's been a while since we've gotten like a 90210, ringy, very unaware teen show that is just awful, cheesy, and dramatic, overly dramatic. Like it has been a while since we've gotten that. Like everyone thought it was going to be Riverdale and then Riverdale turned supernatural, which is also great in its own sense of having, you know, supernatural teen shows. But it's not that slice of life that, you know, we've been lacking. I want to see what they can do. And I am surprised that I like it so much. I think if they didn't do that one Taylor Swift line, I think Taylor Swift would have loved the show. And I would have loved to see her opinions on it. Because I know she probably does like it. She's eating up those Marcus and Ginny scenes because she's like, she knows it, she gets it. And I wish she could enjoy it publicly too. I wish that for her. That was my whole Ginny and Georgia video. I know this was a little bit different from what I usually do. This was kind of more similar to my Stranger Things season one through three recap. I like doing these videos. I like sitting down, just chatting, ranting about, you know, a show. I really like this type of video. Let me know if you guys like it because I would love to do this with like a bunch of different shows. And just kind of get to girl talk it with you guys. Please let me know what you guys think about this freaking season of Ginny and Georgia. I know I didn't talk about every single point because there's not enough time in the world to talk about every single point, every single scene, yada, yada, yada. But I would really like to know what you guys think and what your favorite character moments were, what your favorite character was, you know, what your favorite plot point was. I would love to know it all. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you guys next time. Bye.