Derek 880

Honestly, I did not like this show. Had it centered around the mother, Georgia, it would have been better, if not a bit deal over 20 episodes. But the daughter appears to be the real problem for me. Georgia is biracial and is new to the high school. Her father is Black, and her mother is white. Big clincher...she has pretty much NO Black friends. Period. It was like watching Lena Dunham's, Girls, with a Black character thrown in for fun. I kept waiting for it, and somewhere around season 1, episode 4 or 5 we finally get another Black character. However, she is dismissed so quickly by Ginny as to be an afterthought. Ginny joins up with a cliquey group of white girls, with an Asian girl tossed in for fun. They could have easily passed for Mean Girls with a biracial girl added. They are all selfish and live in their own worlds as if it's the only one that exists. Naturally, Ginny falls in love with the kind of white guy that most teen white girls crave. Moody, stoner, and greasy-looking hair. When, at some point, Ginny is dismissed by the "mean girls", she goes and sits to have lunch with the Black characters, only tp spend her time glancing at the white girls and remembering how much she misses them. In class, and when it suits her, Ginny has no problem pointing out that she is a "Black woman". But outside of class? Nope. One of the Black female characters points out to her, that she doesn't have the ability to put on a blonde wig or change her hair. Her skin color follows her everywhere and is what she's always judged by. THIS is where I thought the show would make this amazing turn and become phenomenal, and we get to see Ginny dealing with the duality of who she is. But...no...The writers passed over that as if it never existed. Ginny is Black when it fits her. When she needs the Black students on her side, she's Black. When she doesn't, she has no use for them. It made for a very weak and one-sided series that I can't imagine myself watching any further. I would love to see how things with Georgia turns out, but the show had 20 episodes to address colorism and Ginny's biracial complexity, and barely gave it 2 minutes out of 2 seasons of 10 episodes each. I see no reason to watch any further. Nothing to see here.