History Series / GinnyAndGeorgia

** Ginny's dad Zion is a photographer who's usually off somewhere doing that and having adventures, while he keeps in steady contact with her and sends Ginny regular gifts. He comes to visit in "Check One, Check Other" and now also wants to stick around. At least part of the issue is shown as being Georgia's fault, as we see she took off with Ginny in past. He later leaves again, saying it's what Georgia wants, which she doesn't really deny. Ginny of course is really upset about this.

** Meanwhile Austin's dad's in prison, because Georgia framed him for embezzlement and fraud. It turns out that Georgia's been keeping Austin's letters instead of sending them, and forging Gil's. Later he and Ginny find out, to Ginny's outrage. It turns out that Georgia told him Gil's [[Literature/HarryPotter a wizard in Azkaban]]. This is a literal case since it's implied they've never met.

** Austin's father would be more of a case of a DisappearedDad.

* DisposingOfABody: [[spoiler:Georgia got a biker gang, the Blood Eyes, to dispose of her first husband's body.]]

** Gabriel, who's played by a Filipino actor, is gay.
** Padma is the only woman of South Asian ancestry.

** Max's LoveInterest Sophie is a Latina who's been in relationships with both boys and girls.

* NewTransferStudent: The series starts with Ginny and Austin starting at a new school after moving. According to Ginny, it happens ''a lot''.

* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Georgia got a biker gang named the Blood Eyes to [[spoiler:[[DisposingOfABody dispose of her first husband's body]]]].

** Ginny's boyfriend Marcus starts calling her "Pooh" (after [[Literature/WinnieThePooh the book character]]), but she's not really onboard with the name.
* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Georgia got a biker gang named the Blood Eyes to [[spoiler:DisposingOfABody dispose of her first husband's body]]]].

** Ginny's boyfriend Marcus starts calling her "poo", but she's not really onboard with the name.
* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Georgia got a biker gang named the Blood Eyes to [[DisposingOfABody dispose of her first husband's body]]]].

* DudeMagnet: Ginny relates that her mom Georgia has no trouble attracting men at all, which is not surprising given her beauty and charm.

* ManlyGay: Gruff, muscular, tattooed Gabriel Cordova, the private detective after Georgia, is living with a male partner it turns out.

* SelfInjury: Ginny repeatedly burns herself to cope with stress and emotional pain. Marcus is very concerned on seeing her about to, and she later talks with him about it, saying she concentrates her feelings this way to release them. He gently suggests therapy instead. When she confesses this to her dad in Season 2, he has Ginny go into therapy.

* SelfInjury: Ginny repeatedly burns herself to cope with stress and emotional pain. Marcus is very concerned on seeing her about to, and she later talks with him about it, saying she concentrates her feelings this way to release them. He gently suggests therapy instead.

* IronicEcho: When Georgia puts out an idea for a casino night instead of a bake sale, Paul shuts it down and Cynthia tells her “it’s nothing personal, Georgia”. When Georgia manages to convince Paul to hold casino night, she tells Cynthia, "it’s nothing personal".

* ThemeNaming: Georgia is a Southerner whose name's that of a Southern state. Her daughter has the full name Virginia, another Southern state (only likes her nickname Ginny).

* ManlyGay: Gruff, muscular tattooed Gabriel Cordova, the private detective after Georgia, is living with a male part
ner it turns out.

* ExactEavesdropping: First Ginny and later Georgia are in the right location for overhearing people saying hurtful things about them in the Season 2 opener.

* AffectionateNickname: Georgia's pet name for Ginny is Peach.

* StacysMom: Georgia is very attractive, and boys her daughter's age certainly notice.

* TeenPregnancy: Georgia gave birth to Ginny at 15.

** Bracia is the only black girl in Wellesbury (aside from Ginny) that we see in multiple scenes. They even have a discussion about Ginny getting treated as a "token" by other people at times.

%%* {{Womanchild}}: Georgia Miller has all the hallmarks of one, though the fact that she has managed to keep her kids healthy and well-cared for, if not necessarily happy, is a slight twist.

The trailer for the series can be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsacpJwXCO8 found here]]. A second season is due to premiere in 2023.

The trailer for the series can be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsacpJwXCO8 found here]]. A second season is due to premiere in 2022.

* ProudBeauty: Georgia is quite aware of her good looks, showing them off with outfits which show her cleavage and [[ShesGotLegs legs often]], plus always making herself up before going out.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Ginny, Max, Nora, and Abby ''all'' treat each other horribly at various points, with some viewers wondering how they're actually friends. Most notably, Ginny [[spoiler: has sex with Max's brother]] and keeps it a secret, Max uses her friends as props to try to hook up with a girl at a party, and ''everyone'' gets so wrapped up in their own problems they ignore Abby while she's struggling with an eating disorder and her parent's divorce. In a KickTheDog moment, when Abby calls them out on being so wrapped in their own issues they've failed to realize her near breakdown, Ginny responds by calling ''her'' selfish and instantly makes the conversation all about ''her'' personal problems. A furious Abby gives Ginny an ArmorPiercingSlap in response.

* PlayingGertrude: Creator/BrianneHowey plays Georgia, mother of Ginny (whom she gave birth to at 15). Antonia Gentry plays Ginny, who's nine years younger than her.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: On her birthday, Ginny demands that Georgia treat her like an adult rather than a child. Georgia obliges by [[spoiler: not intervening or bailing her out when she gets arrested later in the episode]] and telling her the truth about their familiar finances.

* GayBestFriend:
** Max Baker quickly latches onto Ginny as her new best friend while an open lesbian.
** After a short rivalry, Georgia seems to get one too with her partner in the Mayor's Office, Nick, who's an openly gay man.

** The trailer for the series presents a {{Subversion}} of this trope where Ginny is presented as being more mature than her mother. [[spoiler: Then the first episode sees her smoking pot and losing her virginity to a boy she's only known for a day or two; while this can be attributed to being a teenage girl, it helps to show that the two aren't necessarily the same.]]

* LipstickLesbian: Max and Sophie are more chapstick and into girly stuff, like their straight friends. though it's not very pronounced. At times Max also dresses a little more tomboyish too. Sophie is possibly bisexual, since she's dated boys too.

* DarkSecret: ''Something'' is being kept from Ginny and Austin by their mother, though ''what it is'' is unclear so far. Only that, she gets nervous around police officers...

** Downplayed. Georgia Miller can be emotionally neglectful towards her children by being immature and irresponsible, but her heart is always in the right place and she ''does'' try out of genuine love for her kids.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: On her birthday, Ginny demands that Georgia treat her like an adult rather than a child. Georgia obliges by [[spoiler: not intervening or bailing her out when she gets arrested later in the episode]] and telling her the truth about their finances.

* ChildOfTwoWorlds: Ginny, being biracial, has felt caught in between at times. She says to Hunter (who's also biracial with East Asian/white heritage), that she's had no friends in the past as for white kids she'd been not white enough and black kids too white. She cries on seeing one comment which calls her "the whitest black girl" and self-harms by burning herself with a candle over it. Later she also speaks with Hunter about how annoying being asked "what are you?" is, and being stereotyped given their backgrounds (he notes that he's half Taiwanese, though "Asian" is all even his friends know). In a slam poem given for her class later she also mentions her annoyance at being put into a box with regards to her identity too, refusing that pigeonholing. She and Hunter talk heatedly of what their own experiences given this have been, which devolves into insults (this was highly criticized due to relying on stereotypes, plus the "Oppression Olympics" of them one-upping about who's experienced worse).

* IronicEcho: When Georgia puts out an idea for a casino night instead of a bake sale, Paul shuts it down and Cynthia tells her “it’s nothing personal, Georgia”. When Georgia manages to convince Paul to hold casino night, she tells Cynthia it’s nothing personal.
* LipstickLesbian: Max and Sophie are more chapstick, into girly stuff like their straight friends. though it's not very pronounced. At times Max also dresses a little more tomboyish too. Sophie is possibly bisexual, since she's dated boys too.

** It's later revealed that [[spoiler: her previous boyfriend was on the verge of sexually abusing Ginny, inappropriately touching her in one instance as Ginny resisted him. Georgia saw him touching her daughter, leading her to use wolfsbane to poison his morning smoothie, causing his heart attack and death.]]

** Georgia outright states that she and her daughter Ginny are like the ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' but with "bigger boobs" or at least how she views them.

* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: PlayedWith as many fans wondered when [=DCS=] would show up, however, while Georgia may ''seem'' emotionally neglectful, she's never actually abusive and her kids are the center of her world. Still, it's odd after things such as Georgia having unsecured guns in the house, no one (not even her bitter enemy Cynthia) calls [=DCS=] on her.

** Clean, handsome, gentle, and hot mayor Paul Randolph reveals himself as somewhat one of these when he reveals himself to be cutthroat and ambitious. The extent of this, however, is yet to be seen.

* DarkSecret: ''Something'' is being kept from Ginny and Austin by their mother, though what is unclear so far, only that she gets nervous around police officers.

** Said almost verbatim by both Georgia and Ellen, who get very surprised by their own child's secret behavior during the first season. Georgia also has no idea that Austin has been skipping school for days, and doesn't initially notice when he stops talking.

* DoNotCallMePaul: Ginny doesn't like to be called her full name Virginia.

** Since the very first episode, we see Georgia tending a garden with exotic flowers (which gets repeatedly savaged and even burnt later in the season). It's revealed in Episode 8 that that flower is [[spoiler: wolfsbane, a poisonous plant]].
** On the last episode of the first season, some friend of Cynthia's says in a throwaway comment that she could be affected by her family situation. Several scenes later it's revealed [[spoiler: Cynthia's husband is ill and wheelchair-bound]].

** It gets better: turns out Georgia was keeping ''all the unregistered checks'' of the money she [[spoiler: stole]] from the Town Hall in her very same office, right next to a computer where any other person could see how those are ''not'' registered in the Mayor's Office balance. Oh, put in a password, you say? Of course, she has it ''written on a post-it under the keyboard''.

** Ginny's father, Zion, could be seen as this; flashbacks imply it was ''Georgia'' herself who convinced him to leave her and Ginny in order to become the artist he dreamed of being. However, this doesn't explain why he barely visits his own daughter, [[spoiler: or sleeps with Georgia when she's just argued with her boyfriend]].