Ginny & Georgia Season 2 is delighting viewers and has found the top slot in the OTT platform’s Top Ten list ever since it premiered on January 5, last week. There is already speculation about whether the show is going to be renewed for a third season. Viewers will be delighted if it does.
The first season debuted in February 2021 and the show was soon embroiled in an online altercation with
Taylor Swift who objected to one of the jokes in it.
The controversy kept being played up on Tik Tok, and kept viewers hooked. Ratings shot up as viewership soared.
So far, ratings are looking even better for Season 2. According to statistics released by Netflix, Ginny & Georgia Season 1 was watched for 381 million hours globally within its first 28 days of release. This season, it seems set to do even better. In the first four days of its streaming, it was just 200 million hours short of its season 1 stats.
Because of the interest this current season has generated, people are also viewing season 1. Season 2, according to a Top 10 report, has been touted as the “best launch for a returning English-speaking series released on a Thursday.”
The storyline is contemporary and that ensures that the audience includes both young teens and their parents. IMDb lists scores of 7.4 for Season 1 and between 8 and 9 ratings for Season 2 in just the first few days. The show focuses on
Ginny Miller, an angsty 15-year-old who often feels more mature than her 30-year-old mother, Georgia.
If you read the reviews, you may well end up choosing to watch the show. Apart from the compelling teen drama, a top critic points out that “this show does a beautiful and heart-wrenching job of depicting struggles with self-harm and depression.”
Paste magazine’s review reads, “If there's one thing to be said about this new season, it's that the most important criticisms of the last season were taken in stride... In truth, Ginny & Georgia might be the best that the newest generation of teen dramas has to offer.”
Miyu L exults, “Love the show! The story line, the music, the acting… amazing show! Highly recommended!” No wonder, the reviewer rated it 5 stars.
For Skye C, the show emulated real life. The viewer thought that “this show is absolutely outstanding. From the average daily issue teens deal with everyday, to the dysfunction and also loving, fun things about growing up and just life with living with a single parent, I can relate to this on multiple different levels and this season was the best.”
However, despite the hype, Paul M found, “this is a cross between a Hallmark movie and a soap opera”. In a similar vein, John W thought the stories “Pathetic uninteresting… stories of dumb adolescents for simpletons.”
These limited dissenting voices aside, the other effervescent hype around the show has led to expectations that Netflix will soon announce a third season. However, its creator,
Sarah Lampert still doesn’t know whether there will be another season. As she put it in a recent interview, “There’s been no talks with Netflix about Season 3. They’re very regimented about how they do things. So there’s very much a strategy in place where I think we’ll drop it, and then we have to wait to see how it does and if we’re going to see Season 3, but I certainly hope we do because it’s going to be a wild ride.”
The way things are going, let us hope that there is a Season 3.