Two words come to mind about Season 2 The finale of “Ginny & Georgia” is “Shotgun”. and “marriage,” but not in the way you might think.
Just as Georgia (Brianne Howe) marries Wellesbury Mayor Paul Randolph (Scott Porter) in the Cinderella-esque wedding of her dreams, Detective Gabriel Cordova (Alex Mallari Jr.) sets out to arrest Georgia for Tom Fuller’s murder. crashes the ceremony, whom she arrests for the murder of Tom Fuller. In fact, suffocated with pillows. Season 2 ends with Georgia being escorted to a police car and her son Austin (DIESEL LA TORRACA) following her in tears.
“As heartbreaking as it was, I love the ending because again, life is opposites, life is joy and tragedy and nothing in life is wrapped up in a perfect bow. So why would there be a Season 2 finale of ‘Ginny & Georgia’?” Howe said in an interview with TheWrap.
how season 2 led to this end
Georgia and Paul are married despite many obstacles, mainly the arrival of Georgia’s ex and Austin’s father Gil Timmins (Aaron Ashmore), a violent man whom Georgia framed for embezzlement (which she was already doing). ) to avoid its misuse. Gil threatens to bring all of Georgia’s other skeletons out of the closet if she will not let her continue seeing Austin and gives her the money for her wedding to Paul, who comes from a wealthy family.
Gil ends up pushing things too far in his relentless stalking, harassment and blackmailing of Georgia. He learns that Georgia not only murdered her ex-husband Kenny Drexel (Daryl Sheeler), but actually two, as she accidentally gave her first husband, Anthony Green, a massive dose of a drug that caused his death. .
When Gil breaks into Georgia’s home and threatens her, Austin gets a gun and shoots his father in the arm to protect his mother. Georgia then tells her fiancé Paul about her secretive past, but he still decides to follow her and marry her.
“We always knew Gill was coming and [Georgia] being arrested during her first dance [with] Paul, that was always the plan when we were pitching Netflix. The beauty about writers’ rooms is that a lot gets to change. You have these big tentpoles like okay guys, here’s where we’re going. And then you fill it with all this wonderful complexity,” producer Sarah Lampert told TheWrap. “So when Gil came to town, we knew Georgia didn’t want Gil around and we knew Georgia had committed embezzlement. Gill was implicated for this. And those were the only two things we knew about the character. So then it became, ‘Who was that going to be?’ We thought it was really important to show that even a strong and powerful and no-nonsense woman like Georgia can be a victim of domestic violence.
Detective Cordova arrests Georgia after receiving a tip from Nick (DAN BEARN) that she was present at Tom’s death. Georgia strangles Tom after his wife, Cynthia, confesses that she wants to eliminate the responsibility of caring for him. Georgia believes that by killing Tom, Cynthia will be relieved of that burden. Lampert says the smothering scene points to Georgia’s complexity as a character — and how the audience feels about her morally ambiguous actions.
“It must change, it must change. You can love them one minute and hate them the next. That’s dirty. That is real life. I’m interested in exploring that,” he said about the show’s moral gray areas viewers get. “I don’t want characters who always say the right thing or do the right thing. I want characters who act out of emotion and then have to deal with the consequences and then mess it up again in interesting new dynamic ways.
What’s in Store for Ginny and Georgia in Season 3 and Beyond
When showrunners Debra J. Fischer and Lampert pitched it to Netflix, they planned for the show to run for four seasons.
“We always knew where we wanted to end this season. When Sara [Lampert] And I went together to pitch Netflix, we pitched four seasons, and knocked on all the wood,” said showrunner Debra J. Fischer. “We know where Season 3 begins and ends and we know the end game.”
Despite introducing romantic relationships, Fischer insisted that the show hinged on the mother-daughter bond between Ginny and Georgia.
“All this season we’ve been bringing Ginny and Georgia back together. And so Ginny, Georgia and Austin — all three of them — are a unit now. They’ve overcome homicide. They’re together. successful, they unite against Gill, and then, in the end, we tear them apart,” Fischer said. “We love telling these layered stories and that’s the best part about doing drama where you have all these balances. As soon as you bring them together, there’s something else down the road that’s going to tear them apart.” It’s gonna be, and it’s a dimension and how layered our show is. It just works in such a beautiful way. I love the way the season ended.”
