Ginny & Georgia glamourizes Georgia in a way that’s ethereal. Georgia’s perfect from the outside. Beautiful, cunning, charming, and smart, and can talk anyone out of or into doing anything for her. It’s a way to survive.

The ‘survivor’ trope has made Georgia into a character of resilience and has become the ‘hero’ mother to most of Ginny & Georgia’s fans. We see Georgia’s struggle. A struggle of a single mother, who has dealt with sexual assault, abuse, and emotional turmoil. We’ve seen firsthand Georgia’s pain, and we want her to be happy.

Georgia’s perspective makes her seem relatable, puts us in the position to ask, if we were in Georgia’s position, would we do the same thing? The series idolized Georgia Miller, but is she truly the hero?

We Only Sympathize with Georgia Because of the Show’s Perspective

Georgia Miller outside of her perspective is a liar, cheater, manipulator, killer, narcissist, and a bad mother. But why can’t we see that? Why doesn’t the average consumer of television see Georgia that way, and I answer: Perspective.

If we were to change the perspective of Ginny & Georgia to any other villain character against Georgia, for example Paul. In Season 3 of Ginny & Georgia, Paul seems to struggle with the fact that Georgia is being framed for the murder of Tom Fuller, Cynthia Fuller’s husband. Paul is negligent towards Georgia, refusing to support her to his fullest extent and trying to break his ties from her.

Georgia’s perspective villainizes Paul Randolph. Paul is the monster who left Georgia to rot and is the reason her children are being taken by the child protective services. But from Paul’s perspective, Georgia Miller is a woman who has hidden her entire life from him.

A woman who he loved and supported and took care of his kids, but who continues to lie to him, treat him horribly, and use him to achieve her lifelong dream of giving her kids the life she never had. Not to mention, lying about having his child, a dream of his that he’s always wanted.

If the show were forming Paul’s point of view, Georgia Miller would have been the villain. Perspective saves Georgia Miller’s character, and to the writer’s point, is a genius path for Georgia’s character to take. The writers almost manipulate us like Georgia does to her audience.

Most of the things we see Georgia do, it’s villainy but it’s justified heavily to the point we forget it’s wrong. The show limits the screentime of characters Georgia hurts and doesn’t give them as in depth of a storyline. The writers make it seem like the characters around her ‘do’ things to Georgia rather than ‘react’ to the things Georgia has done to them. Perspective manipulates its audience, but is her character truly justified?

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Georgia’s Past Doesn’t Justify Her Actions (No Matter How You Spin It)

In the show, Georgia Miller is known for her extreme actions to the problems that life has dealt her. Georgia has done a lot of bad things, but more specifically, I will use murders as the most extreme.

In Season one of Ginny & Georgia, we learn that Georgia’s first murder is Kenny Drexel, her first husband. In the series, it is revealed that Georgia murdered Kenny because he touched Ginny Miller inappropriately, a nod to her childhood trauma. Georgia adds the plant ‘wolfsbane’ to his morning smoothie and kills him.

What Kenny did was wrong, however, killing Kenny is not justified. Georgia could have escaped the marriage with Kenny or told his behavior to the police. Georgia later explains her reasoning for Kenny in Season 2 Episode 3, when she tells Ginny that murdering Kenny was for her.

Georgia’s murder of Kenny negatively impacted her and Ginny’s life. If Georgia would have left the marriage or snitched on Kenny, there is no predicting what he could have done to retaliate. However, killing Kenny resulted in Georgia being jailed, and Ginny and Austin losing their mother.

Another situation was the death of Tom Fuller. Georgia’s reasoning for killing Tom Fuller can be a bit of a question to the fandom as he was the first character that she had not had much interaction with. The only hints we have to why Georgia could have smothered a dying Tom Fuller is found in Georgia’s dialogue with his wife, Cynthia Fuller.

Cynthia tells Georgia in Season 2, Episode 8, that she cannot handle the grief and her pain. Georgia has dealt with grief and pain, and as we know about her, she doesn’t know how to face it, she knows how to run from it. Sympathizing with Cynthia, Georgia decides to ‘help’ Cynthia out of a dark place that Georgia has similarly been in herself.

The fandom of Ginny & Georgia often questions this scene, confused as to why Georgia would involve herself with something that had nothing to do with her. Many fans are looking for an explanation in Season 3, and we notice that we don’t truly get a real answer from Georgia, because there isn’t. It’s who she is.

However, I think the writers had purposely written this in the show to display the mental instability of Georgia’s character. Apart from many scenes we get with Georgia, we have little time with Georgia to justify or explain this murder she does. We get limited ‘perspective’ as well as little to no explanation, even as the show goes on.

We get more perspective from Cynthia, who we sympathize with. This is done purposely to show the true nature of Georgia. Georgia has been a killer, whether someone does something to her or not.

Georgia’s traumas are valid. She has been dealt life’s horrible cards, however, dumping trauma on others is not okay. She becomes no better than her abusers, let alone worse.

Georgia’s Actions Are Selfish (Even Though She Says It’s Not)

One moment that truly sticks out from Georgia’s selfishness is the scene at the end of Season three, when Georgia uses Ginny’s pregnancy test to pretend to be pregnant. Using a lifelong dream of Paul’s against him for her personal gain.

Georgia uses Paul throughout their relationship to give herself the life she desires so badly, one of wealth and power. It is true that from her interactions with Paul that she doesn’t truly love him. Even when she tells him some of her secrets before they are wed, her reasoning is solely based on ‘the dream life she doesn’t want to lose’ and not Paul.

If Georgia truly loved Paul, she would have been honest with him. She lied to Paul about being a father and blames him for the reason Ginny and Austin are gone, which isn’t true.

Selfishly, Georgia cannot blame herself and often uses people to get what she wants. Paul was wrong for hitting the wall at Georgia, however, compared to Georgia killing people she is no ‘saint’ nor ‘victim’ in their argument.

An argument that could be made here was that ‘everything Georgia does is for her kids.’ However, that cannot be more than false. If Georgia truly did everything for her kids, they would have not moved around as much as they did, moving Ginny from her friends and family.

Georgia wouldn’t have tried to run away from them to escape jail. Georgia wouldn’t have neglected Ginny’s mental health and her feelings. Georgia wouldn’t have made Austin lie and cheat herself out of jail.

Georgia Miller is a Narcissist

Georgia Miller displays many symptoms of being a Narcissist. A narcissist is defined in the dictionary as an inflated sense of self-importance, a constant need for admiration, and a lack of empathy for others. Things to look for suggest gaslighting, deflection, or becoming the victim when troubled or confronted.

We see Georgia do this constantly with Ginny. Ginny is a teenager who deals a lot with the aftermath of her mother’s actions ‘for her.’ When Ginny tries to hold her mother accountable, we see Georgia say things like, “Oh I’m just a bad mom,” or “I did that for you,” or even throw some of the blame on Ginny saying she ‘feels too much’ or ‘she should be grateful.’

Georgia often deflects the bad things, and refuses to see it. In the argument with Paul, when she is confronted about her lying about the pregnancy, she tells him, “because of you my kids are gone,” which cannot be further from the truth. Georgia Miller refuses to take accountability and deal with the past.

Georgia Has Done More Harm Than Good for Her Children

Georgia’s actions are often dismissed as things that she has ‘done for her kids,’ but do these actions positively affect them? Georgia has killed, manipulated, lied, stolen, and committed many crimes that now her kids must carry the burden of.

Austin had to lie to the federal court, sending his father away. Ginny has had to manipulate, lie, and deal with the effects of her mother’s crude ways. Everything Georgia has done for her kids has negatively affected them, and will for life.

Think about it. Name one bad action Georgia has done that has not fallen back on her children negatively.

Is Georgia a Good Mother?

No. Georgia Miller has negatively impacted her children by making selfish and ignorant decisions that have no good outcome. So the next time you watch Ginny & Georgia, and you catch everything I’m throwing at you, next time truly think about it.