I firmly believe this character had the most heartbreaking story in Ginny & Georgia Season 3 (& it’s none of the leads)

Ginny & Georgia Season 3 has to be the most emotional punch that the series has managed to deliver so far. Since its premiere, the Netflix show has managed to spark some really important conversations about mental health, and surprisingly, the creators have not shied away at all from really getting into the midst of things for the third season as well.

For a show that revolves around the Miller family, Georgia and her kids, this season does a great job of also keeping the focus on the people around them. From Marxus to Maxine, Norah or Abby, Ginny & Georgia Season 3 never leaves behind the other teen characters and their struggles, even though Georgia's trial takes up most of the season before it is resolved.

All of these arcs where the teenagers are struggling are handled extremely delicately by the creators; however, there's something to be said about how beautifully Ginny & Georgia Season 3 handled Maxine's struggles.

Ginny & Georgia Season 3 handled Max's heartbreaking struggles brilliantly

Ginny & Georgia Season 3 Episode 9 takes us on a journey where we look at things from Max's perspective instead of the usual Ginny or Georgia. After Max's breakdown in Season 1, when she finds out Ginny is dating Marcus and hiding it from her, she is labeled as a person who is "dramatic" and has way too many feelings.

Max being called dramatic is a trope that is repeated in Seasons 2 and 3. However, this time viewers finally get to see things from her perspective, to look at how she processes everything that happens to her or around her. Max is a person who has big feelings. She's usually a very cheerful and happy-go-lucky person who tries her best to be there for her friends, to lend them a sympathetic ear or a hand. Her love for the people she cares about is big, and it takes up a lot of space, but a lot of these people completely take it and take her for granted.

Sara Waisglass, who plays Max on the show, had similar thoughts about her character's journey, and she also talks about what might happen in Season 4 in a recent conversation with Teen Vogue.

"But for Max, I am worried, because I do think that after all of this bending over backwards trying to please people, trying to be there for people and just being constantly rejected, especially that painful, painful scene in episode 10, I really do think she's going to start turning inwards in a bad way and just be like, "What am I doing wrong? Why am I too much? Everyone says I make everything about me. What is wrong with me?" So I worry for that because I do think that that would be a new layer of Max that we haven't really seen, but only time will tell. I don't have any scripts, this is all speculation for me."

A lot of Ginny & Georgia Season 3 focused on Marcus' struggles and his relationship with Ginny. However, considering the fact that Marcus is struggling really badly with his depression and his alcohol addiction, it comes as little surprise that Max is overlooked a lot of times. Her family is essentially so busy with trying to help Marcus through his problems that they tend to rely on Maxine to be the "easy kid," to be the happy-go-lucky kid to whom things come easily.

Even her friends, who are supposed to not judge her, accept her, and support her, just as she does for them, tend to leave her out of the group, and they make her feel like she and her big feelings are a burden that they don't want to carry. Even though Max tries really hard not to make things about her in Ginny & Georgia Season 3, like she tends to do, they refuse to see her efforts and instead gaslight her for having feelings about these things.

Even Max's girlfriend in Ginny & Georgia Season 3, a relationship that didn't last very long, Silver, tells Max she's worrying too much when Max repeatedly asks her if Marcus is doing okay, failing to mention that SIlver had been buying alcohol for Marcus using her sister's ID in the time that he was suspended from school. This was just another example of somebody Max cared about disregarding her feelings and her worries and making her feel as if she was being dramatic.

All the people around Max, whom she's always there for, overlook her obvious cries for help, and instead, once again, label her "dramatic." Ginny & Georgia Season 3 Episode 9 packs an extremely heartbreaking punch as we see just how much Max struggles as well, but because she's supposed to be the one who is always cheerful and happy, she hides her struggles and then has a breakdown because she had been shoving her feelings down for so long, only because everyone around her made her feel like it was too much.

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"At the end of the season, it's a moment where Max has put her trust into people and they've really hurt her."

Ginny and Georgia Season 4 has the opportunity to have a much greater conversation regarding the struggles of people like Maxine, who walk through life looking like they have everything in order, but the reality is quite different and heartbreaking.

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