10 Best Ginny & Georgia episodes, ranked

Ginny & Georgia delivers what every teenage mother-daughter drama strives for, making it a compelling, chaotic, and emotional rollercoaster that keeps the viewers hooked with the sharp writing and complex characters. The show is a perfect dive into the life of an adolescent girl who’s grappling to keep pace with the ever-changing reality of her world, as her mother’s true colors begin to surface, raising questions that turn her life upside down. It brilliantly captures the struggles of a woman who has had to navigate life both as a troubled teenager and as a new mother, portraying her complexities and fiercely protective motherly instincts along with her remarkable depth of character. Here is a list of the 10 best Ginny & Georgia episodes, ranked.

Disclaimer: This entire article is based on the writer's opinion. Readers' discretion is advised.

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“What are You Playing at, Little Girl?” Season 2, Episode 3 of Ginny & Georgia

In this episode of “Ginny & Georgia,” we see that Georgia finally opens up to Ginny about her troubled past, right after plotting revenge against a school mom. Georgia finally lets Ginny see a glimpse of what made her into the person she has become. Paul, decides to move in with the Miller family, and more secrets start getting unravelled as Paul goes on come face to face with Georgia’s fiercely independent nature and he discovers a hidden gun. The episode also focuses on Paul’s interest in being a part of Ginny and Austin’s lives, but the fact that Georgia owns a gun doesn’t quite sit well with him.

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“Feelings are Hard”, Season 1, Episode 9 of Ginny & Georgia

This episode begins with Ginny regretting the way she acted with Marcus and keeps trying to reach out to him by constantly messaging him. Soon, Ginny learns that the reason Marcus hadn’t been messaging her back was that he was getting a CAT scan after being in an accident. When she looks out the window, she sees Marcus returning home. On the other hand, Georgia returns to her old patterns and cheats on her current partner with Ginny’s biological father, Zion, and she somehow realizes that she needs to change her ways. Ginny is torn between Hunter and Marcus; although her heart lies with Marcus, she still needs to make a decision about Hunter, so she decides to avoid messaging Hunter and instead continues to try to reach out to Marcus. Joe gives off the perfect big brother-like energy when he advises Ginny to be brutally honest about her feelings. Austin stumbles across the truth about the letters he had written to his father in jail in Georgia’s closet and realizes that it was, after all, his mom who had been forging the replies. This betrayal hurts the kid beyond explanation. This discovery is an extremely important aspect of this episode.

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“Welcome Back, Bitches!”, Season 2, Episode 1 of Ginny & Georgia

In the first episode of season 2 of the Netflix original show “Ginny and Georgia,” we find out that Austin and Ginny are staying with Zion, Ginny’s biological father, after running away from Georgia. The viewers are presented with an emotionally gut-wrenching but beautiful father-daughter moment when Ginny reveals to Zion that she has been burning herself and doesn’t want Georgia to find out. It solidifies Ginny’s trust in Zion as a reliable parent in contrast to Georgia. Zion, although initially inclined towards telling Georgia, realizes that Ginny takes priority and decides to take her to therapy. Georgia, on the other hand, has an extremely awkward dinner with Paul’s parents and realizes how unwelcome she is. Ginny’s struggle to find it in herself to reconcile her love for Georgia has been aptly depicted in this episode. In the same episode, we are presented with yet another emotionally heavy yet brilliantly acted-out parent-child moment when Georgia finds out about Ginny’s self-harming nature after reading her therapy journal. The way Georgia’s heart breaks into a million pieces is captured beautifully on-screen. The ending episode is the best thing about this one; the reconciliation of the mother-daughter duo is the chef’s kiss.

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“Kill Gill”, Season 2, Episode 9 of Ginny & Georgia

In this episode, Gill’s ugly side comes more to light, as Georgia literally flinches at the slightest possibility of Gill getting close to her. We are gifted with yet another flashback from when both Ginny and Georgia were really young and living with Gill. Georgia packs a suitcase to leave Gill’s place as she tells Ginny about Oklahoma but has to hide everything the moment Gil arrives. Georgia tells Gil that there’s leftover chicken, which seems to have made him unhappy. When Georgia reaches Cynthia’s place to get Austin, she gets told that Gil already did. It is in this episode that Georgia reveals to Ginny how she killed another one of her husbands, Anthony Green. Gil finds ways to harass Georgia; he follows her to Austin’s school in an attempt to take him to a hockey game, which Georgia refuses. It is in this episode that we see Cynthia and Georgia finally bonding, and Cynthia reveals to Georgia that she wishes her husband’s sufferings would end. Georgia takes this as a cry for help and takes matters into her own hands to do the needful. Later, Gil graces the Millers with his unexpected presence, and that one visit becomes the most dramatic moment of the whole episode. Gil charges at Georgia, thinking it was her who made him lose the apartment, and pushes her. Austin, in an attempt to protect his mother, takes matters into his own hands and shoots at Gil, but it luckily surpasses him and only hits his arm.

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“The Bitch is Back”, Season 3, Episode 4 of Ginny & Georgia

The fourth episode of the new season of Ginny & Georgia sheds light on Marcus’ issues with alcoholism, as he admits to Max how he blacked out during the school dance and doesn’t recall being there or even kissing Ginny. He lies to Ginny and pretends not to be in love with her anymore, and this in turn leads to her dating Wolfe, a boy from her poetry class, or “poetry guy.” Georgia and Joe have a conversation for the first time since her arrest. The episode drops the biggest bomb of all time when Cordova takes the stand and talks about his findings about her past murderous activities. We also find a shift in Paul’s attitude as he switches to being a suspicious husband in place of a supportive one.

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“That’s Wild”, Season 3 Episode 7 of Ginny & Georgia

As had already been predicted by Georgia, owing to a mother’s everlasting fears that her daughter might turn up to make the same mistakes as herself in the past, Ginny finds out that she’s pregnant. Georgia had done everything to stop this from happening, so Ginny wouldn’t have the same troublesome life that she had, or she wouldn’t have to make the same kind of sacrifices that she’s had to make. When Ginny goes to Wolfe and tells her about this sudden, unexpected plot twist in her life, in which he had some role to play, Wolfe presented Ginny with the most shocking, offensive, and somehow excruciatingly juvenile response. Georgia wasn’t allowed to contact her kids without proper supervision, so Ginny reached out to her friends for help so they would create a distraction for the media camping outside her mother’s residence, and she would have a safe passage. Georgia, upon learning about the pregnancy, told Ginny that it was up to her what she wanted to do, and Ginny chose abortion. Despite Georgia’s plea for Ginny not to go to the abortion clinic all by herself, unaccompanied, Ginny went alone, and Georgia decided that it’d be best to contact Marcus and ask him to accompany her, to which he agreed and went to the clinic to be there for Ginny.

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“Boom Goes the Dynamite”, Season 3, Episode 5 of Ginny & Georgia

This episode contains one of the saddest sequences in the whole series. Gil manages to convince Zion that Austin and Ginny aren’t safe with Georgia, and Zion, without even thinking about how it would affect Georgia, calls the CPS on her along with Gil. Both Ginny and Austin get taken away from Georgia, and they end up in their respective fathers’ places. Georgia, as she is understandably devastated and grief-stricken, falls to the ground. The trial's stakes rise upon Cordova’s suggestion that Georgia could be a serial killer. Georgia has literally no one in her corner, neither her kids nor her once-loving, supportive husband, Paul. The poem Ginny recited about Georgia, in which she mentioned how she inherited the sins of the ‘monster’ that birthed her, goes viral, and people start making assumptions about how Ginny must have known about her mother’s murderous nature.

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“Check One, Check Other”, Season 1, Episode 8 of Ginny & Georgia

In Episode 8 of Season 1, Ginny writes an essay after being inspired by her father in the hopes of submitting it to a prestigious contest. However, this ends up causing a bit of friction with Hunter. In this episode, Georgia offers a helping hand to Cynthia and helps her out with her sick husband, Tom. Ginny decides to rebel against her seemingly racist English teacher. News of Paul’s relationship with Georgia starts spreading as Cynthia starts badmouthing Paul as part of her election campaign. This is the very episode wherein Zion visits Ginny’s school, and she practically shows him off to all her friends and her boyfriend, Hunter. There is undeniable tension between Georgia and Zion, and the fact that Zion tells Georgia that he’s single now doesn’t help with the situation. Ginny predicts what could happen and warns Georgia so she wouldn’t mess things up with her current boyfriend, Paul. It is in this episode that we learn that Georgia had murdered Anthony Green, one of her husbands. At school, when Ginny doesn’t win the contest, she confronts her teacher, who, in turn, tells her that the essay was, in fact, “unconventional.” In this episode, we get to see the kind of sore loser that Ginny is when she couldn’t digest the fact that Hunter won in her place.

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“Friends Can Dance”, Season 3, Episode 3

One of the best things about this show is the sense of camaraderie, that the MANG group shares. This episode highlights, amidst all the ups and downs in life, the power struggles in relationships, friendships, or rather everywhere, the way the girl gang stuck by each other in the worst of situations. The episode also highlights Marcus’ struggle with alcoholism. He goes to the dance fully drunk and even after getting there, drinks some more with Abby. Abby realizes that she might not be straight. After distancing herself from Georgia for a brief second, Ginny goes to the dance and shares a moment with Marcus, and that leads her to think that he might be thinking about getting back together. Before things escalate with Georgia’s court trial, we witness Max’s gradual falling out of MANG. This episode builds great momentum for the rest of the season.

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“It’s time for My Solo”, Season 3, Episode 9

The second-to-last episode of season 3 is quite literally the best episode of the season, no questions asked. The episode focuses entirely on Max’s side of the story after she was quite literally sidelined throughout the season. The struggles of being someone who literally wishes nothing but a certain sense of reciprocation for all the love and care she bestows upon the people around her. Max has been depicted as someone who feels too much all the time, like most of us out here. She cares for Marcus and is obviously concerned about his alcoholism. She tries her absolute best to prevent his drinking problem from escalating any further, and ends up becoming a villain in the process. The musical is the cherry on top. The episode also includes Ginny’s struggles to keep her mom out of jail, and literally going to Simone, her father’s girlfriend, to represent Georgia in court, after Paul’s ‘fancy lawyer’ dropped Georgia’s case and left her to fend for herself. The episode ends on a shocking note when Austin takes the stand and blames Gil for the murder of Tom.