It’s your regular shmegular late 20s housemates trying to find their footing in life. Decent palate cleanser

At the end of it all, Ginny becomes Georgia thus the cycle continues.

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I’m gonna have to condense these thoughts because there are many. Going to write it in Substack then post it on this thread.

The first thing Georgia did when she got to the town was to sus out what people needed and give it to them so she was in their good graces and feel indebted to her. I haven’t even got into how her being a thin, pretty, white blond woman aids her in all this.

This is all unintentional. The difference between giving grace for something that isn’t black and white and enabling someone like Georgia is whether there’s a pattern of behaviour. Georgia is constantly in crises that is a consequence of her own actions and that’s the pattern.

Another thing about the cognitive dissonance with the people around her is that they’re willing to accept that she possibly murdered someone because obviously people and situations aren’t always black and white but they are the pawns who assist in her evading accountability and become her enablers

You can’t really get a read on her, she’s always plotting and you can never tell what her next move might be or even why. It seems malicious or conniving initially however when she explains her reasoning it’s usually rooted in some type of martyrdom.

If you as a viewer get a sense that you don’t really know Georgia deeply, your instincts would be correct.

Even the neighbour Ellen, Georgia isn’t a proper friend to her. Ellen is really empathetic, loyal and disarming so befriending someone like this only props up Georgia’s external image and consequently her ego

The fact that people can believe that Georgia killed that man tells you that everyone senses something sinister about her but the cognitive dissonance appears when they excuse her actions with positive intentions or some naïveté which doesn’t add up to Georgia’s character, she’s clearly not naïve.

Ginny is a typical parentified child. She’s the real parent in the house responsible for the emotional labour of her family and tries to protect her brother Austin from the same harm her mum caused her which is a near impossible task.

What I noticed in episode one is, how when Ginny attempts to hold her accountable for the impact of her actions she switches on the victim mode. Which reinforces the trauma bond cycle Ginny is trapped in because all she wants to see is that her mum is remorseful and Georgia gives her just that.

She’s charming, lies a lot, manipulative, exploitative (she uses everybody around her even her kids), victimises herself when it suits her, moves as if she’s above the law, really cares about her self-image, delusions of grandeur and evades accountability. There’s probably more.

When I watched the first couple of seasons I thought even though Georgia was manipulative, she was a good person at heart that just down on her luck but now I think she’s actually a narcissist — yeah I know current trending psychology buzzword 🙄 but I’ll explain why