Having gone through 2 seasons of this, the series has its strengths and weaknesses. Season 1 starts slowly and is kind of Ginny introducing everyone to Georgia. Like an onion, the more you get the layers of Georgia taken off, the more complicated it becomes. Ginny seems a bit off the first half of season 1 starting the saga.
The scripts are well written with only a few times that the rails slip away from realism. The slips are small and the character development of the cast is the strength. While Ginny seems to go backwards, and Georgia becomes more and more involved with other characters, the people around the two of them do often fall into Ginny's first statement about Georgia - "Whenever mom passes gas, 8 men fall in love with her."
While the early school stuff resembles many school scripts for teenagers looking simple, as the classmates of Ginny are developed, they grow more complicated with each episode. The script development is brilliant. Granted this is much more mature than Saved By The Bell (Thank God), we kind of get a look at how complicated teen lives are now with all the choices they are offered. Through the use of flashbacks, this offers a view of single mother raising kids that is rarely done with any view of life other than simplistic ones.
Georgia is a single mom with tons of things she regrets in the past but did them in order to survive. Despite her obvious beauty, it seems she is not the best at picking husbands and as a teenager starts off by falling into bed and having her daughter Ginny when she is only 15. Then as she moves along, she eliminates her bad choices by running away from them. This gives Ginny a broken childhood which mom staunchly thinks of as protecting her precious kids. After eliminating at least 3 husbands and changing her name, she moves to another town hoping to set down roots.
As an addiction, this is a bit like a soap opera, but the maturity and development of all the characters leaves efforts like Dallas even in the dust. It seems that Georgia can find all the right buttons to push in this town except for finding the buttons to make the kids happy. Ginny suddenly decides she can't live with the secrets Georgia has kept from her for years and demands a full accounting.
As we get into season 2 Georgia seems to have decided to have it all, marrying the handsome city Mayor. Only trouble is the complications that come. Ginny complicates them by helping Austin's father (Gil), fresh out of jail, find them. We find out Gil is the abusvie father Georgia runs away from.
Another ex-Georgia, Zion, Ginny's Dad comes into the picture too. Then there is fiancé mayor Paul. Georgia has a feud with Cynthia in the first season, and then turns fully about in Season 2 and tries to help her. This will lead Georgia to more trouble then she ever imagined, but not before she gets the fairy tale wedding she has always dreamed of, wearing white to cover up all her past sins she hopes.
It is all the characters and their interactions that make this series. The writers have the right motivations in mind. While this is way to adult for prime time tv, this series shows that reality series lack for this kind of drama. It is quite addictive while not perfect by any means. This sort of resembles the relationship between Ginny & Georgia, with Austin getting major maturing right at the end of season 2.
All lives can be complicated by who they encounter, the roads they choose get changed depending upon their feelings and routes they take. This series is an adult look at where those roads are smooth, and where there are huge gaping potholes.
The scripts are well written with only a few times that the rails slip away from realism. The slips are small and the character development of the cast is the strength. While Ginny seems to go backwards, and Georgia becomes more and more involved with other characters, the people around the two of them do often fall into Ginny's first statement about Georgia - "Whenever mom passes gas, 8 men fall in love with her."
While the early school stuff resembles many school scripts for teenagers looking simple, as the classmates of Ginny are developed, they grow more complicated with each episode. The script development is brilliant. Granted this is much more mature than Saved By The Bell (Thank God), we kind of get a look at how complicated teen lives are now with all the choices they are offered. Through the use of flashbacks, this offers a view of single mother raising kids that is rarely done with any view of life other than simplistic ones.
Georgia is a single mom with tons of things she regrets in the past but did them in order to survive. Despite her obvious beauty, it seems she is not the best at picking husbands and as a teenager starts off by falling into bed and having her daughter Ginny when she is only 15. Then as she moves along, she eliminates her bad choices by running away from them. This gives Ginny a broken childhood which mom staunchly thinks of as protecting her precious kids. After eliminating at least 3 husbands and changing her name, she moves to another town hoping to set down roots.
As an addiction, this is a bit like a soap opera, but the maturity and development of all the characters leaves efforts like Dallas even in the dust. It seems that Georgia can find all the right buttons to push in this town except for finding the buttons to make the kids happy. Ginny suddenly decides she can't live with the secrets Georgia has kept from her for years and demands a full accounting.
As we get into season 2 Georgia seems to have decided to have it all, marrying the handsome city Mayor. Only trouble is the complications that come. Ginny complicates them by helping Austin's father (Gil), fresh out of jail, find them. We find out Gil is the abusvie father Georgia runs away from.
Another ex-Georgia, Zion, Ginny's Dad comes into the picture too. Then there is fiancé mayor Paul. Georgia has a feud with Cynthia in the first season, and then turns fully about in Season 2 and tries to help her. This will lead Georgia to more trouble then she ever imagined, but not before she gets the fairy tale wedding she has always dreamed of, wearing white to cover up all her past sins she hopes.
It is all the characters and their interactions that make this series. The writers have the right motivations in mind. While this is way to adult for prime time tv, this series shows that reality series lack for this kind of drama. It is quite addictive while not perfect by any means. This sort of resembles the relationship between Ginny & Georgia, with Austin getting major maturing right at the end of season 2.
All lives can be complicated by who they encounter, the roads they choose get changed depending upon their feelings and routes they take. This series is an adult look at where those roads are smooth, and where there are huge gaping potholes.