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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
I created 'Ginny & Georgia.' I wrote this character with 'pieces of me.'
When Sarah Lampert created Ginny & Georgia, she wanted to tell a story that reflected the raw and often messy truths of life. It's part of what has made the Netflix dramedy such a hit — viewers can see parts of themselves in the show's complex characters. The third season, which premiered on June 5, debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. charts with 17.6 million viewers — in just its first four days — with fans eager to see the aftermath of Georgia Miller's (Brianne Howey) arrest for murder on her own wedding day. All three seasons of the series have been on Netflix's top 10 list for English TV for three weeks and running. Ginny & Georgia centers on the mother-daughter relationship between teenage Ginny and her free-spirited, secretive matriarch, Georgia, as they settle into a new town and face unexpected challenges. Central to the show is mental health. Growing up, Lampert never understood certain compulsions and behaviors that affected her life. It wasn't until her 30s, when she was diagnosed with ADHD and OCD, that everything clicked. This revelation would later influence the character of Ginny's best friend Maxine Baker, whose behaviors, struggles and dialogue have pieces of Lampert's own experiences. Ginny and Maxine, aka Max, make up half of their friend group, nicknamed "MANG," along with characters Abby and Norah. Maxine is a dynamic and complex character, known for her energetic, emotional and vulnerable nature. She often brings humor and heart to the series, but beneath her vibrant personality lies a struggle with mental health and a search for self-identity. The character of Maxine naturally holds a special place for the creator, writer and executive producer. Still, she was conscious of not diagnosing Maxine onscreen this season. Below, Lampert opens up about giving a voice to her personal journey through Max and how actress Sara Waisglass brought the character to life. Coming out of the release of Season 3 of Ginny & Georgia, the comment I'm seeing the most online is 'I relate to Maxine!' I've watched passionate TikToks about how deeply everyone feels for the character, the questions they have about her actions and the empathy they hold for her. 'Why did MANG leave her out?' 'I've never related to a character more!' 'She was trying to help!' 'Maxine, get behind me! My poor little glass child baby!' Maxine's pain isn't obvious. She's not brooding or glum. She's energetic. She's the star of the musical. She is happiest when others are happy. She loves the spotlight but is wildly generous about sharing it. Maxine is constantly thinking about everyone else. It is exhausting to be Maxine. She always has to be OK. That's the role she's been cast in, especially as a twin to her brother Marcus. When she starts to not be OK, when she cracks, no one sees it because she's gotten too good at hiding it. Even when she tries to share her feelings, no one sees she's drowning. The version of depression that we're more used to seeing onscreen is represented in Marcus, portrayed so achingly and hauntingly beautifully by Felix Mallard. But in a show where the theme is "everyone's fighting a battle you can't see" — what battle is Maxine fighting, and is it so dissimilar from Marcus's, or is it just packaged differently? By entering Maxine's head in Season 3, the writers were able to give context to some of her over-the-top reactions from Season 2, revealing her thought process in a way that showed the chaos and heart that make up the character's inner world. We also had the gift that is Sara Waisglass, who has the ability to make you laugh and cry in the same sentence. Sara was very brave in Season 2 in allowing Maxine to be so messy, to bring the character to places that we knew would be unpopular with the audience because she had to be flawed. She had to be human. Does Maxine overreact to Ginny and Marcus's relationship? I think so. Is that something I would do at 16? Absolutely. She makes sense to me, her rejection sensitivity, the larger-than-life emotions, the dramatics. Of all the characters on the show, Maxine is the one I relate to the most. I was in my 30s when I was diagnosed with ADHD and OCD. Suddenly, so many aspects of my life clicked and made so much sense. I realized that this wasn't unique to me. So many people — especially women — aren't diagnosed until later in life. Women's mental health, like women's physical health, is criminally overlooked. And to be honest, I'm not interested in diagnosing Maxine. She's young. She has a lot of growing up to do. She's got pieces of me, but she's not me. She's a combined effort of the other brilliant writers who work on this show, and of the special sauce of Sara Waisglass, who infuses Max with her own spin so that everything feels so very Max. I knew that it would mean a lot to depict Maxine's inner thought process onscreen. If we could get it right, I knew it would be powerful and others could connect to it. Max would make sense to them. When Season 3 was released on Netflix June 5, the response was shocking because Maxine is all of us. Everyone felt for her. Everyone felt they were her. We've all gone through feelings of being too much, of being left out, of needing to be OK when other people weren't. The universality of that is beautiful to me. I hope that if the show does anything, it makes people feel less alone. With Maxine's story specifically, I hope that it helps people pay attention to the friend who they don't think needs help, the friend that's laughing on the outside. Inside, they just might be hiding something deeper. To those people who do feel like Maxine, I hope you see how you're not alone and how seen you really are. That's why it was so important to me to put the inside of Maxine's head onscreen, for all the Max's out there.
NDTV
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Ginny And Georgia Season 3 Review: Absurd, Addictive And All Over The Place (In A Good Way)
Quick Read Summary is AI generated, newsroom reviewed. Georgia Miller is arrested for the mercy killing of Tom Fuller in Season 3 of Ginny & Georgia. Season 3 focuses on family trauma, legal drama, and teenage issues with increased intensity. Ginny navigates complex relationships and personal growth through poetry and therapy sessions. New Delhi: There's a peculiar charm to watching someone commit murder with the same poise they might use to frost a cake. That's the Georgia Miller experience, equal parts molasses and menace. Netflix's Ginny & Georgia has never pretended to be subtle. It's loud, proud and high on drama, stitching murder, mother-daughter trauma, and manicured suburbia into a patchwork quilt that's always threatening to come undone. In its third season, the series takes that unravelling seriously. With a new showrunner at the helm and courtroom tension in the air, the show barrels forward with the audacity of someone who just smothered a man and still expects to be loved at brunch. Season 3 opens in the immediate aftermath of Georgia's (Brianne Howey) Season 2 wedding day arrest. A vision in Cinderella blue, she's led away in handcuffs for the mercy killing of Tom Fuller, the comatose husband of her friend-turned-rival Cynthia. That wedding dress may be something borrowed and something blue, but the headlines that follow coin a far stickier nickname: "The Mayoress Murderess." The town of Wellsbury, Massachusetts, is aghast. Georgia's new husband, Mayor Paul Randolph (Scott Porter), is caught between political damage control and personal disillusionment. Her daughter Ginny (Antonia Gentry), already exhausted by years of upheaval, now walks the school halls with gossip trailing her like perfume. And young Austin (Diesel La Torraca), too small to carry the trauma but doing it anyway, finds ways to act out with quiet violence and wide-eyed confusion. If Season 2 flirted with chaos, Season 3 leans in fully. Georgia, under house arrest and ankle monitor supervision, becomes a neighbourhood voyeur, peering through binoculars and decorating her tracking device with the same giddy flair she once reserved for PTA fundraisers. Meanwhile, Ginny tries to maintain some semblance of normalcy, navigating a complicated relationship with the brooding Marcus (Felix Mallard), rethinking her friendships with the MANG girls, and cautiously exploring her voice through poetry. Her writing, both cathartic and revelatory, becomes one of the season's more emotionally grounded threads. But beneath the teen drama and courthouse couture lies something darker. Austin, the silent witness to Tom's death, is a time bomb of repressed memory and confusion. Georgia's past-dotted with abuse, desperation and three separate murders, catches up with her in flashbacks that try to parse out sympathy from an increasingly complicated character. Brianne Howey plays Georgia with a studied duality: she's charming and terrifying in equal measure, a Southern belle whose sweetness often smells suspiciously like "cyanide". Yet the tonal whiplash remains. One moment we're watching Georgia cry in the bathtub, the next she's cracking jokes while bedazzling her leg monitor. The show constantly tests how much suspension of disbelief its audience can endure. Season 3 also shifts its focus in a telling way. New showrunner Sarah Glinski brings a firmer hand to the teen ensemble, fleshing out Marcus and Max's grief, Abby's body image issues and the general high school chaos with a level of care that's occasionally missing from Georgia's legal soap opera. It's a smart move. Ginny, in many ways, becomes the show's emotional anchor. Antonia Gentry's performance this season is her best yet, balancing teenage impulsiveness with mature introspection. Her sessions with a therapist, brief though they are, bring some of the show's heaviest emotional punches. And Marcus, grappling with depression and alcohol, gets a surprisingly tender arc that never slips into melodrama. Still, the heart of Ginny & Georgia remains the toxic but magnetic bond between mother and daughter. They hurt each other, forgive each other, repeat. It's a dance as messy as it is intimate. The show makes no apologies for how dysfunctional their love is - it leans into it, glorifies it, even weaponises it. And that, more than murder trials or high school poetry slams, is what keeps this drama beating. Georgia might be a pathological liar who thinks her crimes are justified in the name of motherhood, but the show insists on letting her be both villain and victim. Whether that contradiction is compelling or exhausting will depend entirely on the viewer's tolerance for morally grey storytelling with a lot of lip gloss and irony. The courtroom plotline that dominates the latter half of the season is expectedly over-the-top, but it does inject stakes that had begun to sag under the weight of flashbacks and side plots. Paul, struggling with his identity as both husband and mayor, finally steps up with a performance from Scott Porter that offers moments of real gravitas. Even Diesel La Torraca gets to shine, with Austin's trauma no longer relegated to the background. In a show bursting with chaos, his silence often says the most. Of course, Ginny & Georgia can't resist ending with several seismic plot twists - some earned, some not. Flashbacks to Georgia's past set up yet another arc with her former husband Gil (Aaron Ashmore), threatening to stretch the story's believability even thinner. But even when the show stumbles, it stumbles with such bravado that you can't help but keep watching. Like Georgia herself, it's a mess you can't look away from. Ultimately, Season 3 is a fever dream of family dysfunction, legal drama, teenage turmoil and Pinterest-worthy murder. It's not perfect, it rarely even tries to be, but it is oddly magnetic. The emotional throughlines still land, the performances continue to evolve, and despite all logic, the show retains its bingeability. Love it or loathe it, Ginny & Georgia understands its audience. And that's more than most series can say.
Time of India
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'Ginny & Georgia Season 3': Ending explained - a dive into family drama, unexpected revelations, and more
Ginny & Georgia is a series full of teen drama and a little fun. The series follows the story of Georgia, a woman who has been running away from her past and settles in New England to give her family what they never had: a genuine, normal life. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Though her past comes back in multiple ways and threatens the new life of the family, she does her very best to protect her loved ones. During the course of the series, Georgia also opens up to her daughter, Ginny, about her deepest secret, which was murdering her ex-husband, Kenny, and naming that an accident when Ginny was small. Now the series has released a new season by opening up another fold of their family drama. Fans have been eagerly waiting for their answers after the end of the second season. Ginny & Georgia Season 3 Ending Explained Ginny & Georgia's third season begins immediately following Georgia's startling arrest at her wedding. Her new husband, Mayor Paul Randolph, struggles with the public backlash as the town of Wellsbury turns against her. In spite of Georgia being guilty, her children want her to be free. Ginny and Austin are placed with their fathers. Gil's violent nature causes concern, and Paul divorces Georgia. Austin later gives a surprising testimony, blaming Gil for Tom's death. He lies under oath, saying he saw Gil suffocate Tom. Cynthia backs him up by claiming Gil could have entered the house unnoticed. The jury finds Georgia not guilty due to the reasonable doubt and public opinion changes in Georgia's favour. Further, Georgia finds an unexpected ally named Joe, who accepts her troubled past. While Ginny's friend group, MANG, experiences personal conflicts and fractures, Marcus continues to struggle with his own mental health. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now While Georgia struggles to take back control of her life, new characters such as Tris and Wolfe bring new zones to the whole narrative. The entire season features numerous unexpected revelations, dramatic events, and emotional turns. What's next? As Ginny and Georgia embark on a new chapter, many questions remain. How will Georgia reconstruct her life, and will Ginny carry on her mother's legacy? There are still some questions that remain unanswered and unclear. There is a lot of drama, cheating, and intense character development at the end of the season. With hints of more in-depth character growth and startling revelations, the show's creators have hinted that Season 4 will focus on 'Cycles and Origins.'
