Review of Ginny & Georgia’s Season 1

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I recently fell into a spell of unemployment probably during the worst time to be unemployed, as it was very hard to find a job. I was applying to hundreds of jobs, getting interviews, but no offer was manifesting for me in the near future. So during this time, I had a lot of free time, and spent a good chunk of it chipping away at the blog.

I’ve written about this over and over again on the blog, so apologies if you’ve seen this before, but during my time of unemployment I also used the free time, when not applying to jobs, to sit back and catch on my to watch and read lists. I doubt that in my lifetime I’ll ever truly get through them, so when I have opportunities like these, I’m grateful to watch shows and movies for a little bit. It’s a small privilege.

That said: I never actually planned on watching Ginny and Georgia originally. I had heard about it repeatedly since it had come out, but never thought it was something that I would be interested in. Well, during this time of unemployment, season 3 came out and I ended up pressing playing and watching all three seasons over the course of July 2025.

This blog post is going to come out much later than that, as my publishing schedule currently has a lot of backlog and is something that I’m working on slowly. I imagine this is going to be coming out in the fall of 2025, so hi future reader! I hope the world has been kind as of late compared to this summer.

Let’s get into the review of Season 1 of Ginny & Georgia. Seasons 2 and 3 are going to be covered in different blog posts, so keep an eye out for when those come out in the near future.

A single mother of two kids grapples with her somewhat violent past as her daughter experiences her coming of age as a mixed race teenager.

This series starts with the main characters, Ginny and Georgia, moving with Austin (Ginny’s nine-year-old brother) to a small town in Massachusetts. As we see throughout the season and later in the series, Georgia doesn’t exactly have the cleanest record in the world and has skeletons in her closet, which will remerge throughout the show.

But, for now, as Georgia starts working for the mayor and even strikes up romance with him, Ginny is starting at a new high school. They’ve been moving throughout her entire life and she’s never managed to stay in a place long enough to make new friends, but this time might be different and Ginny has hope things will be different this time.

She does make friends at this new school, thanks to her neighbor Max and a cute boy named Hunter, who Ginny may or may not be dancing around romantically with, but when she looks out her window at night and discovers new things about her sexuality, she sees Max’s brother, Marcus.

There’s a bit of a love triangle throughout the first season between Ginny, Marcus, and Hunter, which leads to friction between Ginny’s new friend group as well. It also doesn’t help that Ginny is so desperate to fit in she’ll consider shoplifting or other things with her friends, and that her English teacher is making aggressive racial comments and treating her differently because she’s mixed.

As all of this is happening, Austin is struggling at his elementary school and lashing out in new ways. Ginny and Austin adjust in different ways to their new situation, especially when Ginny is forced by her mother to get a job at a restaurant in order to learn a lesson, but as more secrets about their mother come out throughout the season, the more they have to confront their lives may never be normal.

Lots of drama packed into this season though in general! I find the focus is more on Ginny than Georgia, although we do alternate between their perspectives. Georgia is a bit of a hands off mom, as she was thrust into this maternal role from a young age, but in some ways she saw no alternative futures because she didn’t come from a family that was going to give her opportunities.

So in some ways it’s not surprising Georgia ended up the way she is, but she’s trying as hard as she can in the ways she knows how to for her kids. Which is admirable, as she is a single mother. We do meet Ginny’s father in this season as well, as he is going to foster her newfound love for poetry.

Overall Thoughts

I think this was a solid first season, but if it were just solely Ginny’s perspective, then I might have dropped the show much sooner. What makes this show compelling for me is the fact that we get to see both sides of this messed up family, and Georgia’s perspective and flashbacks help ground the typical teen narrative.

I also genuinely like how women focused this came across to me, as both of the main characters are women. Yeah, their lives do revolve around men in a way that can be counterproductive in some ways, but they have honest conversations outside of love interests and the men who they’re currently dating.

Some shows don’t even do that in the end, so I give kudos to this show for trying. I was also pretty entertained throughout, even though some of the high school antics had me rolling my eyes. They felt real in the end and very realistic for their situations, which helps make the episodes flow faster.

I say go watch this one if you’re interested and haven’t already! I found it to be intriguing, and while I don’t know if I’d watch past four seasons, I’m glad I got through the first three.

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