Following an exhilarating first season, Netflix returns with Ginny & Georgia Season 2, which means more teen drama, more questionable parenting scenarios, and, of course, more rattling secrets to unravel.
Season 2 picks up where Season 1 left off, with the mother-daughter relationship deteriorating.
When we last saw Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and her little brother Austin (Diesel La Torraca), they were speeding out of Wellsbury on a motorcycle, hoping to get as far away from mother dearest Georgia (Brianne Howey) and her glitter-coated web of lies and secrets as possible (the murdery kind).
Georgia has always done what it takes to survive — to the detriment of her children — from lying about sending Austin’s letters to his father in prison to taking out credit cards in her children’s names. Ginny and Austin have had enough of Georgia by the end of Season 1, who we learn through a series of bleak flashbacks has been a Bonnie-Esque criminal since she was a teen as a means of survival.
Ginny is still reeling from the discovery that her mother is a murderer, but she is also dealing with her normal teen drama on top of it all.
“MANG,” her first real friends, have completely cut her off after discovering her and Marcus’s (Felix Mallard) secret romance.
Meanwhile, Georgia, despite being newly engaged and the soon-to-be First Lady of Wellsbury, isn’t feeling too festive without her children. Ginny and Georgia have always been tense — their complex dynamic is arguably the most compelling aspect of the series — but the mother/daughter duo is more estranged than ever in Season 2.
Season 2 of Ginny & Georgia has a lot going for it when it focuses on its characters and all of their quirks (some, of course, more charming than others). Not surprisingly, Sara Waisglass steals the show as Max, no matter how obnoxious she is, but we also get the pleasant surprise of seeing an unexpected friendship blossom between Ginny and Abby (Katie Douglas), who was thrown out of MANG at the end of Season 1 due to the Marcus/Hunter/Ginny debacle. Abby wasn’t always Ginny’s biggest fan, so seeing them bond over their ousting was a refreshing change from the constant Max-centric MANG hangouts
