Ginny and Georgia

The second season of Netflix's Ginny & Georgia has been a wild ride for the titular Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and Georgia (Brianne Howey), plus just about ...

As the wedding is in motion, private investigator Gabriel Cordova (Alex Mallari Jr.) — who has been hot on Georgia’s trail since Ginny & Georgia started and has a new potential means of taking her down — finally confesses the truth of his identity to his boyfriend Nick (Dan Beirne). Ginny encourages her mother to tell Paul the truth about her past — well, most of the truth — so she can move past her fear, get married, and live the life she deserves and so desperately wants in Wellsbury after experiencing so much pain. She tells Paul her secrets, sans the murders, and gives him the opportunity to be with her or run screaming. When Max and Ginny leave, Georgia pulls out a suitcase and begins to pack her daughter’s belongings, clearly anticipating making this move in the very near future. With this, she gets some of the money she needs to survive, gets Gil thrown in jail, and escapes a life of domestic violence. When she walks in to check on Ginny, before Max shows up, Georgia makes a comment to Ginny about the beautiful Lake Powell where people live on houseboats. With some new insight on the situation, Ginny goes to Marcus and tries to explain what she has learned. Georgia tries to reassure Marcus that he did the right thing by not holding Ginny back, but also confesses how he was good to her and taught her what it’s like to be loved. Building to the season finale, Austin (Diesel La Torraca) witnesses Georgia suffocating Cynthia’s (Sabrina Grdevich) dying husband before shooting his father Gil (Aaron Ashmore) — in the middle of a violent altercation with Georgia — in the arm with one of his mother’s secret guns, leaving the family to clean up the mess before Paul (Scott Porter) returns home and the police become involved. As she wishes him good luck and implores him to be better to his parents, Marcus drunkenly confesses that he'll keep the secret Ginny told him about how Georgia killed her late husband. While this mother and daughter have worked hard to get to a somewhat decent place with each other, particularly after Ginny learned the truth about what happened to her step-father Kenny (Darryl Scheelar) [in Season 1 of Ginny & Georgia](https://collider.com/ginny-and-georgia-season-1-recap/), neither could prepare for the fallout from their respective actions with the others in their lives. [Ginny & Georgia](https://collider.com/tag/ginny-and-georgia/) has been a wild ride for the titular Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and Georgia (Brianne Howey), plus just about everyone else in their lives, as their relationships have been thrust in new directions amidst discord and secrets lurking out from the shadows.

The sophomore season's finale is a case study in what the Netflix show gets right—and so wrong.

The result is an uneven, if enjoyable, sophomore season, one with a lot more unpacking to do if it hopes to keep Ginny and Georgia together for long. Back in City Hall, Georgia floats to the altar in a confection of exploding periwinkle tulle, and she dances under the twinkling fairy lights with her new husband, who this time can do nothing as Gabriel and the police interrupt their first dance to shackle Georgia in handcuffs. Ginny—and Gentry—do their best to keep the show on track, to steer the titular mother and daughter toward mutual understanding. In between her psuedo-Southern platitudes and oversimplifications, Georgia bats her eyelashes and brushes aside Ginny’s attempts at real reckoning, as in an exchange when she attempts to plant alcohol and porn in Ginny’s teacher’s desk midway through season 2. But wait, there’s more: Ginny doesn’t know that no small part of her break-up is thanks to Georgia, who, earlier in the season, made Marcus promise her he “wouldn’t hold [Ginny] back.” Mother and boyfriend share a smoke in the garage halfway through the season finale, during which Georgia admits, “I was a little harsh with you. As the cop car pulls away from City Hall, Ginny can only watch and take heaving breaths as she realizes she, once again, will be forced to deal with what her mother has wrought. Seemingly moments later, Georgia and Ginny are riding to City Hall in a carriage drawn by a horse named Milkshake. We later learn, via flashbacks, that Georgia herself once tried to pull a gun on Gil, but he called her bluff and knocked the pistol out of her clenched fist. and straight to his lawyer, whom he sics on Gil for harassment and custody of Austin. (I shudder to think of the resulting bill, but no time for that in teen drama-ville!) Although widely cited as a country-fried The Gilmore Girls with a dash of murder, Ginny and Georgia only wishes it were so straightforward. Not emotionally scarred beyond repair?” she pleads with these kids, hours after Ginny and Austin (Diesel La Torraca) witness Austin’s biological father, Gil (Aaron Ashmore), abusing Georgia in the kitchen.