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Overall I liked the show. However, I found Ginny to be incredibly annoying with her spoiled and privileged behaviour. She is downright rude to her friends and mom. Her character has a lot of maturing to do.

Season One: 7/10

Themes: Drama, Family, High School, Relationships, Fitting In, Mysterious Past & Humour.

Top five characters: 1) Georgia Miller, 2) Joe, 3) Marcus Baker, 4) Ellen Baker and 5) Maxine Baker.

If this whole show would have been about Georgia it would most likely be a 10/10. Street smart and outwitting them all. She has such depth to her character, which ginny, the lead, is missing entirely.

This season was a really great watch. I couldn't stop. I binged all 10 episodes the same day lol. The originality of the characters and their charm really pull you in and get you invested. Don't listen to the crazy Taylor Swift fans getting mad over one single line in the whole show of 10 episodes. I love T Swift as much as the next person but geez, calm down.

This show has a very entertaining cast. The teenage characters are pretty realistic and have good chemistry, especially the four girls-it reminds me a lot of being young and having fun with my girlfriends. I could do with less sexualization of teenagers, but understand the show is being realistic about the lives of teens.

Georgia is a great character too as she is complex and interesting.

This show is like a mix of Mean Girls, Degrassi, Gilmore Girls and then something more mysterious too.

I'm not sure if this was the intention of the show for Ginny to come off this way but I feel half the time i love her and the other half I find her incredibly annoying. The way she treats her mom, and always sees herself as the victim in everything really bothers me. She thinks every time someone doesn't agree with her that's is either racist or they are in the wrong. She's closed minded while also being open minded and seems to have this idea that everyone else's life aside from her own is perfect. She's self centred and immature but thinks she's the opposite.

Again maybe this is the way she was to be portrayed because this is how a lot of teenagers can act, buy it often made her unlikeable and I often found myself not wanting to root for her.

Either way I think Antonia Gentry did an amazing job and her acting is incredible, and I'm genuinely looking forward to seeing her in other things in the future.

After watching the first season 2 years ago I really wasn't a fan. The characters did not have the depth that they needed and the love triangles were just exhausting. I do understand why people wouldn't like Ginnys character there.

But the second season is something completely different. The way the series portraits trauma, mental health and day-to-day racism is very honest. The character building in season 2 is great and they added the depth that was lacking in season 1. The actions of basically everyone make sense in terms if their character. And if you still think Ginny is "a spoiled brat" and "doesn't appreciate what her mom did for her" you really didn't get the point. You can want the best for a person and still make mistakes, still cause trauma. Reacting to that isn't ungrateful, it's human. Especially for teenagers and kids.

After how season 1 went, I really wasn't sure if I wanted to watch season 2 but I'm so glad I did.

This is such a good show. It's a great one for parents and teens to watch together. The Virginia character however is absolutely exhausting... I am so sick of watching her grump through every scene. I think if she rolled her eyes one more time I might have thrown the remote at my screen. It's a shame because other than that it's a really good programme.

I didnt expect much from this show. I anticipated a very high school level drama with superficial problems and i got anything but... this show has layers.... the characters have layers. Whoever designed this show has some untapped talent. As the story progresses you start to justify actions you would never make, and root for people because they deserve a chance and a change at life. This show is POWERFUL. Netflix would be stupid to let this gem fall away.

Im drunk and then i realized i require 600 characters to post a review on IMDB... so let me reiterate. If you are looking for a compelling, character driven adventure... this is it. Absolutely Humanizing.

This show surprised me. It's more than just a teen drama. I appreciate the racially mixed casting and the delving into issues faced by biracial kids. All of the comparisons to Gilmore Girls are purely superficial and take away from the darkness that I felt this show did very well. I think the casting was really well done. I say kudos to the casting of the "teen" actors. They all looked pretty young (they looked 20 instead of 25-30 like usual in these shows).

If you are expecting something as light and fluffy as the GG, you will be disappointed. But if you want something entertaining with very dark tones and some pretty realistic teen characters... give it a try.

It's really hard to watch this show even though I like the other characters. Ginny is possibly the most obnoxious tv teenager I've ever seen. She has a horrible attitude. I understand she's supposed to be an angry teenager but she comes across righteous and smug. Georgia is excellent though. And wish there was more Joe.

Hopefully green lighted for season 2!! This show was fabulous

It's interesting how many of you adore the manipulative mom-child and cannot empathize with the daughter who has to deal with all of the chaos she creates as though she is not the child in this scenario.

I weep for your children.

I really like it. Its more realistic than most shows. People in some of these reviews want fantasy but to be honest this show touches base on how teenagers really are these days.

Georgia is a fun, mysterious character. Her son is cute. Ginny is just too much of a stereotypical tv teen, it gets annoying. By the end, I couldn't deal with the Ginny lines.

It's such a shame to see a great show take a hit at ratings because of cancel culture. So, to anyone reading this unsure wether to give it a go, if you enjoy an easy watch with great storylines and romance, I'd definitely say yes. I'd say the target audience is teens/YA but I'm pushing 30yo and LOVED it! The ratings have taken a hit due to a Taylor Swift comment and from someone who loves Taylor's music it's ridiculous that no one can mention ANYTHING anymore without it offending someone. Definitely recommend this series, hoping for s2!!

THE TWISTS, THE DRAMA. Heartfelt, extra dramatic, wholesome and twisty. What a show. Teenage drama mixed in with some really provocative themes, important commentary, intricately bizarre story lines and some truly wonky characters. A mother-daugther story that is far beyond their own relationship which is born out of a stereotypical "free spirit" mom on the run storyline. It's chaotic in a wonderful way. Bless. waiting for a second season.

Why was ginny there in the show. She is the worst child anyone can ever have.. She has an extremely comfortable life with a mom doing anything and everything to make thier life safe and comfortable but rather than being grateful she hates her mom.

Why???????

She is shallow, sleeping with one dude, dating other, asking if for $100 like a cent, does not want to work for it but judges and hates her mom.

Georgia on the other hand makes you like her despite some wrong doings. The character as well as actor is likable.

I wish there was no ginny and only georgia.

Still a good watch for a weekend binge.

I absolutely love the Georgia character and would have loved if the show focused more on her teen years, but ginny is very annoying. Ginny is always playing the victim and her actions of juggling two boys, making everything about race and being so ungrateful to her mother. This makes the show for me unlikeable. Overall the show has a decent plot typical to a romcom type of serie.

All the people complaining about Ginny need to go read some Gabor Maté material, and learn to love their past teenage selves, in order to stop being triggered by a completely natural teenage response to how messed up her mom is. Like I love Georgia as a character, and I can understand her motives for everything (survival) but at some point, like any trauma coping mechanism it becomes maladaptive. She has zero boundaries with Ginny, she is extremely emotionally immature in many aspects of her life, she never allows Ginny to have feelings about anything or confide in her, or else she (Georgia) goes and tries to "fix" things for her which places so much burden on Ginny. So Ginny has to shove everything down, seems to have some form of alexithymia, so when she feels overwhelmed with feelings she can't identify, nor share with her mom (or anyone for that matter), of course self harm is going to happen. I'm seriously flabbergasted at the lot of you that think Ginny is so awful and ungrateful. Do you not understand that as a viewer you are seeing the full story, but Ginny doesn't get to? And how absolutely frustrating that must be? Do you realize that Georgia is supposed to be the adult with the fully developed brain, and we should never expect teenagers to behave in ways that require full brain development? I mean the therapy session alone should be a very clear indication that Georgia has lots of work to do in regards to her own past traumas, and her refusal to do so or to allow any space for feelings of discomfort is spilling over into Ginny's life and causing an entirely new set of traumas.

Aside from that, I found this show to be binge worthy. Yep it's got controversial topics and some very gray areas for sure. But that's what stories are for, to allow us to work out situations in our brains without actually having to live them out if we don't want to. If you want to watch a show that is more black and white then this is not the show for you. The time for working out things you're not sure of, and for experimenting, is when you're a teenager and you have (hopefully) a soft place to land - a loving supportive family. One that understands teenagers are supposed to make mistakes and be difficult. If that idea makes you uncomfortable, please read the first sentence of my review again, and don't watch this show til you do the thing.

Also what a cliffhanger at the end of season 2! It will be interesting to see where they take it in season 3! Was it a double cross, and if so who was/were the mastermind(s)? I hope it doesn't go with the cliche, and instead we see some sort of alliance between Georgia and Cynthia. Georgia has had to fight tooth and nail in life just to dig herself out of a horrible upbringing. She did what she had to do, and I hope most people can understand that suggestions like "just call the cops" are almost never realistically beneficial or helpful in any way. I truly hope there is some redemption and room for her to heal and grow in season 3. And I really hope that Ginny and Austin will get to benefit from that. Maybe there's room to create drama with other characters like Nora, and to delve further into what so far has been surface level exploration of Abby's, Marcus', and Hunter's lives. I could see Georgia and Ginny being great assets to others' struggles after all they've been through.