Through two seasons of her titular Netflix show, Georgia Miller (Brianne Howey) has essentially been building the plane as it flies. As we've seen through various flashbacks, she's endured a lifetime of verbal and emotional abuse that made her a teenage mother of two, wandering across the country and taking on different identities. Somehow, she has always found a way out of every corner she gets backed into. That is, seemingly, until she's arrested at the end of Season 2, charged with murder.Luckily for the team behind the camera of Ginny & Georgia, they get much more runway to work with. When talking with creator Sarah Lampert, she reveals to Parade that the early stages of breaking out the dramedy involved laying out "tentpole" story beats through the first three seasons. And, with the exciting news that the series was renewed for both Seasons 3 and 4 back in May 2023, it gave her a whole new corner of the tent to work with.
? SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox ? "What being afforded two seasons did to us, it really allowed us to expand the Season 3 storyline into a two-parter," she says. "So emotionally, we really knew what we wanted to do with the characters in Season 4. We knew, relationship-wise, where we wanted the characters to go, and we work with a psychologist on the show who's been with us since Season 1. And so she helps us guide the mental health journey and the relationships of our characters. But in terms of actual 'this will happen in this episode,' Season 4 was much more of a blank slate, which is quite fun in the writers' room."But before we can even think about Season 4, we have to get into all of the immediate tension to come with Ginny & Georgia Season 3, premiering Thursday, June 5 on Netflix. In our preview, Lampert gets into how the two-season renewal affected her vision, new showrunner Sarah Glinski and why fans should look forward to Georgia's "Judgment Day" in the new season.
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When you created the Season 2 ending with Georgia's arrest, did you immediately have plans for what you wanted to do in Season 3? Or was that left as more of a jumping-off point in the writers' room?We planned the ending of Season 2 knowing what we wanted to do for Season 3, for sure. So we really had a clear idea of what Seasons 1, 2 and 3 were going to look like. Obviously, there was a lot of spontaneous creation that happened, whether it be in the writers' room, on set later or in post throughout. But there were still tentpoles that were pretty drastically where we were going. And the stuff in the middle is kind of where we were able to be loose.What's funny about Season 4 is that there weren't many tentpoles. I won't say there was no plan, because there was a plan. So what being afforded two seasons did to us, it really allowed us to expand the Season 3 storyline into a two-parter. So emotionally, we really knew what we wanted to do with the characters in Season 4. But our major tent poles in terms of things that had to happen, because we set them up in Season 2, certain things had to happen in Season 3. And so we knew we had those tentpoles that we had to hit. In Season 4, it was much more open-ended. We knew, relationship-wise, where we wanted the characters to go, and we work with a psychologist on the show who's been with us since Season 1. And so she helps us guide the mental health journey and the relationships of our characters. But in terms of actual "this will happen in this episode," Season 4 was much more of a blank slate, which is quite fun in the writers' room.So, should we expect Seasons 3 and 4 to essentially be one long 20-episode season?Honestly, I just never thought of it that way. It's a very collaborative effort this show, and it really is a kinetic, living, breathing thing. The character work is so specific, there's a lot of room for everyone who works on the show to bring something to it. So the writers' room is very alive. And then when you get on set, the actors really know their characters, and they have a lot to say about that, and that only makes it stronger. So there is always, I would say, a real flexibility that happens. Really, the thing that we're holding on to with a tight fist is the emotional truth of where the characters are. Would it make sense for our characters to do this thing? If we want our characters to do this, what has to happen to have that be an emotional truth, that they'll do it? So as long as we hold on to that, we have fun with it.Well, you left things in a holding pattern coming out of Season 2, with Georgia's arrest. What can you tease about the immediate aftermath of having one of your titular characters charged with murder?Certain things are very actualized. So there's a lot of flexibility. But I will say there was always a very clear picture in my head of ending Season 2 with Georgia and Paul having their first dance, newly legally committed to one another as husband and wife. And Ginny on board with it, it being this beautiful moment. And then the police arresting her for murder, dragging her out and playing "Going to the Chapel" as she's dragged away, because that's how sick my brain is. [Laughs.] So that was always kind of the ending we wanted. My favorite thing about the show is how we play with tone, where it's camp, and then it's very serious, and then it's fun. So we really shift tonally, and then we ground all those tonal shifts in the relationship of Ginny and Georgia. So what we did is we spent Season 2 getting Ginny and Georgia to a place where they were not good. When we started Season 2, they were the furthest apart they've ever been. She physically wasn't in the house. And we did a lot of work over the course of that season to get them more on the same page, only to then threaten it with this outside force. Their struggles were always internal. It was the inner dynamics of their relationship that was the conflict between them. Now the police have arrested her for murder. That's an external problem that they're going to have to deal with. So starting off Season 3 with that, I think we're picking Ginny up in a place where she's really grappling with all of this struggle she's already had about how she feels about who her mother is. And now expounded with the fact that it's not just her who has to have Judgment Day on her mom. It's the whole world. The whole world is about to have Judgment Day on her mom. And it's like, "I can talk about my mom. But you can't talk about my mom!" And she doesn't want her mom to go to prison. I mean, that's horrible. She doesn't want to lose her mom. So it's a lot of conflicting feelings for Ginny. And then for Georgia, I mean, she's finally confronted with the implications of her actions. And we spend this season really, really breaking her down as a person in order to hopefully, possibly rebuild. I guess we'll have to see.Speaking to the two-season renewal, Ginny & Georgia also has a new showrunner for Seasons 3 and 4 in Sarah Glinski, who knows her way around a teen drama with her work on Degrassi: The Next Generation. Talk to me about what that's been like.It's been great. She said something to me so prolific at the beginning of this that I just knew that we would work really well as a team. Going back a step, she loves kissing. That's always her [thing]. She's like, "What if these two characters kissed?" [Laughs.] I would say a large portion of the magic of the show is the romance. And I just love that she's always trying to get characters to kiss. But she was like, "I love all the romance in the show. I love all the different love triangles. I love that each character is a viable option." All three of Georgia's love interests are viable options. We [also] have this beautiful love romance story between Ginny and Marcus. But the real "will they/won't they" relationship of the show is Ginny and Georgia. Should they end up together in the end? What's the happy ending? I don't know. And when she phrased it like that, I had never really thought about it in such a succinct way. I found that to be so brilliant. I repeat it a lot because, yeah, will they or won't they end up together in the end? And frankly, what's the happy ending? Because I would say at the end of Season 1, it would be a bad ending for them to end up that way together forever, and same with Season 2. So, what do we have to do for these characters if we do want them to end up together? To grow them to a place where that's a happy ending, if that's the direction we go in.
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