Ginny and Georgia, a comedy series on Netflix, is about a mother-daughter team, like The Gilmore Girls. I reviewed the first episode in March 2021, but I don't remember anything about it. No doubt the three gay characters listed in its Wikipedia page had not yet appeared. So I'll give Season 2, Episode 1 a shot.
By the way, the Wikipedia page was terrible, fraught with grammatical errors and overuse of the cliched term "love interest." I fixed a little of it, but then gave up. I have other things to do today.
Scene 1: Ginny and Georgia, Mom and Daughter, dancing in slow motion, experiencing that intense sort of ecstatsy that you see only on tv commercials when someone has achieved everlasting happiness by purchasing their brand of toothpaste or dishwashing liquid. Daughter explains that when she was growing up, they were soul mates, so deeply in love that they didn't need anyone else.
Switch to Daughter as a teenager, no longer in love with Mom. She's reading the Parable of the Sower, when Mom, who looks like she is around 15, comes into her room. "What the heck is this trash that you're reading? I'm so stupid that I don't know what 'parable' or 'sower' mean."
"It's about the demise of civilization through facist capitalism."
"Oh, I don't know what any of those words mean, so let's make out We haven't had sex in ages." Smothering Mother jumps into bed with Daughter/Lover but calling herself "Mommy" turns the girl off. She refuses sex, so Smothering Mother ttries smothering her with a pillow.
Scene 2: Daughter/Lover wakes up. It was all a nightmare, a metaphor for Mom's smothering. I may have exaggerated the incest subtext -- a little. But it's still very obvious, and very creepy.
Scene 3: A prim Southern Belle who looks like Melanie from Gone with the Wind, opens the door and yells "Welcome back, bitches!" to an elderly heterosexual couple. A blond woman with a man's haircut admonishes her to not call "Nanna and Pappy" bitches. So, a lesbian couple?
The elderly Nanna and Pappy enter, hug the couple, and ask Football Fan (Chris Kenopic), a middle-aged man, if he's ready for the Pats to lose. The New England Patriots, so this is the Northeast. I thought it was the South due to the Southern belle and the Mom named Georgia. Plus Nanna brought "whoopie pies," a Southern dish.
Nanna asks Man's Haircut where Marcus is. So both of the woman have heterosexual partners, and they're all living together? "He'll be down in a bit."
Scene 4: Marcus (Felix Mallard), a rebellious teenager, is in his room, smoking and drawing bugs on the wall. Southern Belle bursts in to tell him that Nanna and Pappy have arrived.
Marcus wants to know if Southern Belle has talked to "her," because she hasn't been to school in a week, and she's stolen his bike. Oh, great, not another person to fit into this extended family tree.
More note-taking after the break
