Ok, so, I read a few of the other reviews for this episode and I agree that this one in particular wasn't so great. But not in the sense that you don't like where the story is going or what a character did, more in the sense that I think it had big mistakes. Yes, Ginny and Georgia do fight a lot and then are fine again, but the matter of Marcus and mother and daughter saying they hate each other was left unresolved. MANG was just weird this episode. In the restaurant scene Ginny was incredibly self-centered, and Abby hit her, and Norah basically betrayed Ginny (and Max was just happy for losing her virginity) and yet they acted not how one would expect for such a scenario. And yes, I get it "teens are weird" or "that is just the way they are". But it didn't seem like a normal quarrel of a group of teens. Abby was right in having felt abandoned in a time of need. Ginny should have been more understanding. Because, just as she told Abby, not everything has to be about herself either (I don't care if the show is named after her). And then we have the last scene. So, Ginny is about to self harm, which can be a time of desperation and great intimacy with oneself, when Marcus comes in and tells her he loves her. Ginny, I get it, is startled because he almost caught her burning her thigh, but she could've been nicer. She knew Marcus's best friend had died, and he is in a fragile state. Bringing Padma to the conversation wasn't necessary. She pushed him away just as she pushed away Hunter. And at the very end, in her monologue she says something like "of course I hurt myself" and then gives a reason, which is alright because people who hurt themselves almost always have a reason. But she says it so casual, like it's absolutely fine to burn yourself, and then you hear Marcus crashing after leaving upset on his motorbike. You are left wondering if perchance he was trying to kill himself. And the episode ends. I feel they shouldn't have combined Ginny casually saying it was alright to self-harm and the probability of Marcus's attempted suicide. Finishing it there could be a trigger for some peple, like myself (which means I can't be totally wrong). It's just I wish Netflix would be more careful. Same thing that happened with the Sabrina finale. But that's another story. Let's see what happens with Ginny's and Georgia's.
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