let’s not forgot the way ginny got mad at georgia for not letting her see her grandparents AFTER georgia told her how they abused her

georgia was the only good part about the entire show help

the only thing i have to say about the show is that ginny deserved that slap

that oppression olympics clip made me lose 25 years of my life

I hate how Marcus gets glamourised because he’s attractive. He literally climbed into a strangers room (who was a minor) refused to get out and no one even talks about it?? It completely normalises predatory behaviour.

One thing I hated about max was that they tried to shove all the stereotypes about Gen Z into one character who was borderline racist at points, but it seemed like they wanted us to brush it all off and make up for it with the fact that she’s gay.

The writers really thought they were doing something with that “oppression olympics” monologue

Ginny made everything EVERYTHING about her. They could’ve really done something with this show, where they showed what it’s like to be half black and half white. The prejudice they experience from the white and the black side of their family but they just... did it do trrribly.

Hey guys let’s just appreciate Joe, Padma and all the other characters that didn’t get the appreciation they deserve

I find myself enjoying the show at times and they hit me with the oppression olympics and I have to reevaluate 😶

One thing Ginny and Georgia did really well though was their incorporation of the deaf father. How naturally he was placed within the scenes. They didn't need this huge scene of explaining why he is deaf and how to do sign language and whatever. I loved how naturally the children signed when they spoke at dinner even if they weren't speaking directly to the father. Also when the sister gets put in bed by her brother, they sign to each other even though they don't need to. Whether that was incorporated within the script or suggested by the director, hats off for making it so realistic.

I like how the show contradicts Ginny when she basically says black kids don’t like her. Sometimes it can be true but mostly black kids don’t really notice nor care if your mixed.

so i binge watched this show when it came but i have a few thoughts: - i know everyone loves marcus but the way he climbed through her window was creepy and it made me uncomfortable - how is hunter one of the most popular guys at school? - i hated how marcus treated padma, she deserved better - paul was beyond cringe, joe all the way (i think she's gonna end up with him in the next season anyways lmao) - austin is basically the best character

Girl thank you for bringing up the criticism of minorities talking about being minorities in this show. I’ve seen it elsewhere and it’s such a lazy trope, like we don’t have identities beyond our race. It’s bizarre

The fact that Ginny the light skin bi-racial girl gets chosen over Padma the South Asian girl whose darker skinned perpetuates the idea that South Asian women are unlovable when she's literally gorgeous and can sing. I hope she finds herself better friends and a good boyfriend.

Someone please tell Netflix this isn't how teenagers talk ffs

Ginny taking off on the motorcycle with no warning then kissing this dude made my skin crawl

honestly, the way the teenagers in the show talked (particularly MAN) made me wonder if the show was trying to be a satirical, over-the-top take on teenagers?

Why is no one talking about how toxic MANG is?!?!?

i feel like ginny perceives herself as someone she really isn’t? Like she wants to be perceived as shy, reserved, quirky unique or whatever. But her actions show otherwise. I think that’s why almost everyone is fed up of her in the end. But she still doesn’t realize it’s all her fault.

I like what they were trying to do with Ginny’s character, emphasis on trying. The execution just made her out to be the most stereotypical, bratty, straight out of Wattpad teenage girl. I liked that she mailed Austin’s letters to his dad. It showed she actually cares about her little brother and not just herself. But then they add in the fact that Georgia told her she was abused and Ginny’s response is, “I have a right to know about my family,” girl bye

the tap dancing scene was the final straw for me

I don’t like how they said Ginny doesn’t fit In with the white kids or the black kids but when the black kids try to include her she dismisses them and doesn’t even try to form a relationship with them.

I felt so bad for Joe, how could she pick Paul over him??

I’m bi-racial but Asian(India Asian)-American and usually people think I’m a tanned Chinese person. Like- how much people can be unintentionally racist is SHOCKING

I couldn't even finish this show and after seeing how bad it is, I'm glad. I stopped at the second episode because it was too cringe...

At one point i started skipping all the ginny's part and solely watched georgia. She had layers to her character and was so much fun to watch. Ginny became ecentric and very annoying later on. [Hated the triangle "love story" btw]. I'd rather watch "never have i ever" for teen drama✌️

I thought you were explaining how the whole season went not the first episode 😭😭

Antonia Gentry is of Jamaican ancestry, which is the reason for the "jerk chicken" line which is super weird because that's the actress, not the character.

this was just a highly entertaining wattpad story in show format that i inhaled in a day, received 3000 in brain damage, and promptly forgot i experienced

I have yet to find a KZfaq video about Ginny and Georgia commenting on how terrible and toxic Maxine is as a friend

I don't ship Ginny with Marcus or Hunter. Ginny an d Hunter have no personality. Ginny and Marcus are literally just sexual tension no romance whatsoever.

thank you for this!! I just can't understand why people love this show and your video brought up some points I agree with heavily! Part 2??

BYEE every time there’s a Hunter scene I have to skip cause I can’t handle the embarrassment 😭💀

For older folks the neighbor is also in Twitches. She's one of the guardians for the Mowry twins

Joe was the hottie of the series. He is handsome, has a perfect beard, is caring, cool, he is such a catch, and the series insist in selling the bland oatmeal dude as the hottest.

Yes!! I’ve never seen a title I’ve related to more. Ginny and Georgia is like a car crash, I can’t watch away. I binged all of this in one night and I can’t stop thinking about it🤪🤣🤣

This show was trying to be Gilmore girls but failed in actually picking a niche (friendly small New England town with mother-daughter dynamics and commentary on the complexity of parenting), and grounding the silly story with really great dialogue

Hahahha "looks too emotionally unavailable to not be Ginny's boyfriend" 😅😂😂😂

Very glad you mentioned the absolutely terrible dialogue haha . . . like 90% of the lines were so far removed from the way people normally talk. And also the way they tried to take on a million serious topics without adequately addressing any of them, the way certain characters were one dimensional, and yeah you basically took the words out of my mouth with the rest of your analysis lol.

Unpopular opinion: I actually really liked the Opression Olympics scene. Like who is Ginny to tell him he's not Asian enough, especially when she doesn't feel black enough. If anyone, I thought Ginny would know just bc you don't follow the stereotypes of your race, it doesn't make you any less. But no, she had to come in with that bs and he sat her down for it (by intentionally using her logic against her). Ginny will bring up race when it benefits her.

People forget these are suppose to represent 15 year old kids

The show annoyed me quite a bit, especially that oppression olympics scene. Both hunter and Ginny are in the wrong, just because you like other foods and can’t speak the language doesn’t make you any less of that race and saying horrible stereotypes is absolutely horrible. There’s no excuse.

I just finished this and I'm so mad so i have to put this out there. Ginny was unlikeable, they tried to make her the "not like other girls" so that's already tiring. She thought everything was about her, was mean to almost everyone. Also the fact that she couldn't talk things out but decided to hide everything and then say "I'm so sorry" and cry. Marcus was a douchebag, he sneaked into her room, had sex and the disappeared, but when Ginny started dating Hunter, he felt in love and jealous out of nowhere. So he's the average idiot. Hunter was cringy. Maxine was the worst, she was dumb, forced, tried to be quirky but it was just embarrassing, was mean to people like sam or marcus w/ no reason. Dramatic af, thought she was ginny's owner or some because of how she reacted to the fact of ginny not being a virgin and having sex w/ Marcus, like gurl is not a big deal, she can sleep w/ whoever she wants. Invalidated others feelings. She was just the most irritating character.

The good thing about Ginny and Georgia is the fact that it shows that there is no such thing as good or bad person. Real people make mistakes, they are not perfect. I can't remember when was the last time I saw something like that in a show.

As someone who is mixed. The show tried to show what it was like, and they definitely got some points. Like Ginny straightening her hair to fit in with the white kids. After COVID started and we were all quarantined, I spent 6 months of that quarantine trying to get my hair healthy again and finally embracing my curly hair…. But then I went back to school. I go to a predominantly white school in the south, so I mainly saw straight hair. I thought my hair looked messy and untamed, so I started straightening my hair again. So that is a very real struggle that me and many other biracial or curly headed ppl go through. And a more accurate way they could’ve shown how people may treat Ginny differently because she is biracial is by showing how a lot of times (idk if this is common in other places, but it is where I live) black people won’t think you’re back enough to date or be friends with, while white people will treat you like some sort of trophy or will straight up forget you’re mixed and will do like hella racist stuff around you. But some other points they could’ve put into the show, is gunny struggling with her culture. Especially since she is raised by a white mom, showing how biracial people can struggle with their culture would be really nice. I lived with the white side of my family until I was 8, and my black dad would send my white aunt money so she could go get someone to out braids in my hair, but she refused because she wanted me to be as white as possible, so even now, when I’m 15 years old, I’m too scared to ask my dad if I get braids or lay my edges. Especially with all the cultural appreciation arguments that have been going in recently. And one other struggle is other people trying to tell you what race you should identify as. One person is saying “if you look white, you need identify as white, if you look black, you need to identify as black” while someone else is saying “you can’t just pick and choose which race you want to identify as because then that means you’re only doing it for your own self gain” BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE IS SAYING “you can’t identify as biracial because it’s technically not a race, so you have to choose one or the other”. And personally, I’ve been called a mixed breed and a half breed before so they could also put that in the show. This is all based off my personal experience, but I know a lot of biracial people face similar struggles.

At the end it's a mess, but I think that is a fun mess to watch.

honestly they should have called it georgia & ginny because georgia literally carried the whole show on her back

Georgia was AMAZING in this show

The whole show is just a big compilation of serious topics that didn’t work alongside each other. The two main themes, in my opinion (racial prejudice and self harm) were topics that needed their own show to be done justice. I’m white, so I can’t comment on the experiencing racial prejudice that the show explores. However, I self-harmed for a number of years, so I am at least equipped to comment on that. To put it bluntly, Ginny’s struggle with self harm is extremely romantized. Yes, it does provide relief, which I think is what the show was aiming to emphasise, but it isn’t sunshine and rainbows and relief when you self harm. It hurts a lot. I didn’t burn myself like Ginny does in the show, I cut myself, which is a whole lot messier than burning. Plus the thing where she just...lets Hunter undress her? Fair enough, scars are a lot more noticeable as self harm than burns are, but I wouldn’t let anyone look at me for months. I could say more about the topic, but I just think it was done poorly as really the issue needs it’s own show and not just to be a subplot in this one.

The Oppression Olympics caused me to die from second hand embarrassment, come back to life, and then die again.

My biggest problem is the two main characters themselves. Ginny is just awful to her mother. As a black fifteen year old girl myself and having grown up with a 56 year old Christian mother and being married to her husband for almost thirty years, I’d kill for a mother like Georgia. Georgia always tells it like it is. She doesn’t sugarcoat everything, but she does encourage and support her children, even going the unconventional route of being a mother (letting Austin punch his bully in the face, how cathartic). She’s even open about things my mother barely talks about, like sex. Ginny doesn’t give a damn, though. She’s jealous and needy and it shows whenever she talks to her mother. She’s disrespectful, rude, inconsiderate, and clearly doesn’t care about her mother’s happiness. I despise girls and boys who treat their moms with contempt.

joe and ellen are literally the best characters pls-

Only thing I cared about is joe and Georgia relationship justice for joe 😔

Marcus is a creep but also really funny and then I feel bad for him-? Idk

Ok can I just say also... the way that the teens interact on social media in shows and movies made by adults has always been hilarious to me cause like... no teen talks like this over text and stuff lmao

Ginny complains: Me: I want to slap her in the face 🏃✨

Abby is the most realistic character yet

I mean Marcus definitely wasn't the worst character imo. The climbing in through the window thing has never been cute and will never be cute. But I think he's one of the few characters in this show that made me laugh. His reaction to the tap dancing scene is iconic.

7:14 bro I WISH we got more of him he's so cute and even has a short backstory with Georgia

I watched a compilation and I was like. What is this???????????? I could not get everyone’s love for it

Girl you nice and concise with your analysis videos, love it!

Loved the video! And damn.. it's really messed up making Ginny talk about the Asian stereotypes as if it's supposed to be some kind of privilege for the Asian community.. The writers shouldn't have started comparing it with the black stereotypes in the first place, because they're both hurtful at the end of the day. Idk but as a black girl myself I would've loved it if they had shown solidarity (apart from a romantic relationship which didn't even last) between these two races struggling in society, instead of just showing (sadly more) division between them.. But guess that's too much to ask from Netflix's 'teen' shows these days.

Netflix has a pattern of hiring mixed women to play black characters while ignoring the fact they’re white passing. So I’m glad they have a mixed character that doesn’t talk about black issues that sound completely tone deaf as if she is oppressed the same way full black people are.

I swear the whole oppression Olympics scene is gross. I'm fully black (Nigerian) so I don't know about being mixed. BUT, I have a very diverse friend group, and its not intentional. We're all white, black, asian, south east asian, etc. And yes, there are privileges that exist in the world that comes with the culture you're born into. But we don't let that ruin our friendship like what? We choose to rise above it, instead of acting trashy like Ginny tf?

2:59 She's also in the first Twitches movie (Illeana) and it was bothering me for so long because I could not for the life of me figure out where I'd seen her before

a lot of the time some topics feel like they are there to just check a box of "how woke can we be"

Some belated timestamps and socials: 00:00 What's wrong with Ginny and Georgia? 00:17 Ginny and Georgia Taylor Swift controversy 00:31 "Oppression Olympics Let's Go" 00:55 Vulture article on Guy Fieri's Trash Can Nachos 01:05 A quick Ginny and Georgia recap 02:13 Ginny and Georgia characterization 03:15 Ginny's sweater - Easter egg 03:25 The biracial experience 04:59 Ginny & Georgia bad dialogue 05:29 Bad characterization - Max 06:12 Does Ginny have a personality? 06:43 Georgia's character development 08:05 Marcus and Ginny, who's nOt LiKe OtHeR gIrLs 08:45 Subverting a trope or inconsistent characterization? 10:05 Overall Ginny and Georgia analysis 10:54 Blacia was a prop 11:20 Who is Ginny and Georgia for? Just made socials! @myfivecents_ (IG, Twitter, TikTok)

its mind boggling that the entire cast and production team looked back over the line "oppression olympics, let's go" and thought it was a good idea

Uhm hi, I just started watching your video's and I love how straight to the point you are! It's so refreshing!

I think the oppression Olympic scene was effective for bringing up the relationship between different people of color because usually on tv if that’s brought up it’s black vs white. Even if it is surface level it may start a conversation

I don’t know what the writers were on, but they really left out nuance, sophistication and class with mixed raced issues.

The show could have been so much better if it wasn't for that cringy dialogue and representation of teens

People's views on Ginny are short sighted. We're meant to hate her for now so we can watch her grow later. Her problems & mindset are presented as petty & angsty and she slowly gets more serious and less naive as she learns her mother's past & face family issues, by the end of the season it's clear that shes gonna endure major character development by s2.

Honestly this show is a mix between a acid trip and a 12 year old written Wattpad story. And a shitty one with after under tones 😬

Personally, I don’t think Hunter was trying to be offensive in their “oppression olympics” argument, although he did say some pretty hurtful things. It seemed to me like he was purposely using Ginny’s logic. Also, y’all may be right about how essays should be written in a certain format or whatever but even if that were true, it’s clear that the teacher is very racist and biased. There was definitely personal feelings in how he came to his decision.

OK I agree with the part that ginny was terrible, but the way Georgia was handling their life wasn't the best either. I didn't finish the series but I didn't have the motivation or the thrill to do so.

when the opression olympics scene came up I had to watch it multiple times because i was shocked

The oppression olympics made me lose brain cells, she said he not Asian enough and eat cheeseburgers and he said homie and said Brody twerks better than her 😭😭😭

I'm just waiting for the vampire to show up the the show will be complete

This show is so bad my mom and I binged the whole thing in one day, I’m OBSESSED

Netflix brought me here. Great review! 👍🏾 On another topic, I really like your blouse in this video. Can you share where you purchased or the designer from the label? Thanks I’m advance.

Also they did such a great job with the flashback actors. SUCH a good job

This video was awesome you are so pretty and this was so entertaining!! how do you not have more followers

The squishmallow in the background tho-

Loved this video! You commentary was brief but on point I agree with everything you said. One thing I noticed that doesn’t make sense to me was the scene where Ginny tells Hunter that she thinks Press is rude or whatever then Hunter goes on to say that Press was there for him when he was a zombie because of aderall for THREE YEARS. That was the moment I realised that even the writers don’t think of them as 15 year olds. There’s no way that Hunter the tapdancing top of the class most popular dude was addicted to aderall as a 12 year old. So yeah there’s that

I think the oppresion Olympics was fair on hunters side I mean... ginny started going off about how he's not asian enough? Like a mororn??? And he did the same thing so yea that sceme was uncomfortable asf but it's ginnys fault in the end.

As a biracial person who went to a predominantly white school. This show was hot garbage.

This show made me cry with cringe. Ginny was a mistake and that's what I said.

The fact that this show is getting a second season and I couldn't even finish the first-

The title is the most relatable thing I’ve ever seen lol

They try to be the Gilmore girls and fail miserably

Tbh I get why Taylor swift spoke out... it was a poor and sexist joke that men have used to belittle her throughout her career

There's so many subplots that they dropped halfway that makes the show 10000x worse

Couldn't agree more lol. I also binged watched the entire season in one go but I couldn't explain why since I knew it wasn't good.

i have never seen this show but as a biracial asian and seeing what you've put here all i can say is they they are 100% milking the mixed identity which is honestly so funny

I just finished the show tbh I dont feel like it needs a season 2. The lesson/moral of the show is that people change and act the way they do because of what they dealing with behind close doors and nobody wouldn't understand but them. It's also you gotta do what's best for you to make it day by day to survive no matter how much hearts you break.(That's why the flower was symbolic of symbolism as giving someone a heart attack)

I thought you were talking about the whole season! NOT THE FIRST EPISODE AGHJDJSJAJJAHHHHHHA

Watching this show got me so mad bc as a person who has been through a ton of these things you can tell that both the directors and writers have never even met a teenager in their life

i watched until marcus snuck through the window and she slept with him then realized it was a show with 0 comman sense that i couldn’t watch