‘Ginny & Georgia’ bosses discuss that shocking season 3 ending

This article contains spoilers for Ginny & Georgia season 3.

• Ginny & Georgia bosses Sarah Lampert and Sarah Glinski break down the season 3 finale.
• Yes, they know who the father is. No, they won’t say.
• Plus, they explain why now was the right time for Joe and Georgia to finally sleep together.

Georgia Miller (Brianne Howey) is not in jail. She is, however, pregnant.

In its third season, Ginny & Georgia follows Georgia’s trial as she grapples with the reality of going to prison for murder. In the end, she narrowly avoids that fate, thanks entirely to her children. It’s Ginny (Antonia Gentry) who comes up with idea to have Austin (Diesel La Torraca) testify that he saw his father, Gil (Aaron Ashmore), commit the crime.

But that doesn’t mean that Georgia’s problems are over. Not only does the finale show her mother and stepfather roll into town, but in the season’s final moments, it’s revealed that Georgia is pregnant, and considering that she recently slept with both Paul (Scott Porter) and Joe (Raymond Ablack), it’s safe to say that things are about to get … complicated.

Entertainment Weekly spoke with series creator Sarah Lampert and showrunner Sarah Glinski about the many twists of season 3.

Diesel La Torraca as Austin and Antonia Gentry as Ginny on ‘Ginny & Georgia’.

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Do you think this experience has really changed Georgia? Can Georgia change?

SARAH GLINSKI: She’s definitely going to try. I mean, the stakes of the season were so high, and for her, she nearly lost her children, which is the most important thing to her. She lost them physically for a bit, but she knows if she doesn’t change, she might lose them emotionally, forever. So I think she’s going to try.

SARAH LAMPERT: She has to try because she realizes finally what’s at stake, which is Ginny and Austin are going to be done with her.

That final scene of Austin getting angry really broke me.

LAMPERT: Yeah. I love watching Diesel work. He plays Georgia’s son very well, I’ll put it that way.

Even watching him on the stand, you’re watching the corruption of this innocent child.

GLINSKI: No one in the Miller family will be the same after this season. We talk about Georgia changing, but Ginny has changed, Austin has changed, and there’s no going back.

LAMPERT: I think some of the change has the potential to be for good. We worked really closely with both Mental Health America and with Dr. Taji [Huang], who’s our psychologist, who’s been helping us craft really the mental health journey of these characters since season 1. At the top of this season, we had a conversation with her and I asked, “What’s going to have to happen for Ginny and Georgia? Now Austin’s kind of getting in there. He is entering the chat.” Her answer was, “You’re really going to have to break down Georgia because she’s going to have to finally understand that her actions have consequences and Ginny’s going to have to draw some really firm boundaries.” So I think what we’re seeing in season 3 is the breaking of Georgia Miller with the hope to rebuild. 

Brianne Howey as Georgia and Scott Porter as Paul on ‘Ginny & Georgia’.

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On a lighter note, Joe and Georgia finally slept together this season! Why did you feel like this season was the right time for them to get together?

LAMPERT: Well, if we’re breaking Georgia down, Joe really is the person who’s left standing when the dust settles. By that, what I mean is what I love about Georgia and Joe’s will-they-won’t-they is it’s not that simple because we’re also rooting for Paul and Zion [Nathan Mitchell]. Genuinely, it’s a really even split between people who want Paul, Zion, and Joe. We love that. But what she gets from Joe, she’s not going to crave until she’s her most authentic self and she hasn’t been there yet. Zion is her first love and he provided this sense of first adventure. She met him on the road and then she got pregnant. Then with Paul, it was all about status. I do think there’s love there, but it’s a little transactional. They’re very image conscious as a couple, both of them are. Then when her image goes to s— and threatens his image, he can’t take the heat. He has valid reasons, don’t get me wrong. But Joe doesn’t care about image. Joe doesn’t care what people think about him, truly at all. So I think the things that Georgia really values deep in her core, which is loyalty and family, those are Joe’s core also.

I’m not going to ask you whose baby it is because it’s obviously a huge spoiler, but are you planning to draw out the mystery a bit in season 4?

GLINSKI: Yes.

Do you all know who the father is?

GLINSKI: Yes. [Laughs]

LAMPERT: My favorite part about this writers’ room, especially now that we’re in season 4, is that everyone in the room has worked on the show a prior season. So the group really knows the gang. What’s so fun about working with such talented writers is how Glinski and I entered this season is we were like, “Okay, we know whose baby it is. Change our mind.” Then we spent a whole day with the writers, and it was contentious. There was a debate over how the storylines could go based on whose baby it was and all that. But no, we’ve landed on whose baby it is. I’ll say that.

Did they change your mind?

LAMPERT: They didn’t. They did for a few days and then we ultimately went back, which happens a lot. It’s not uncommon in the writers’ room for our minds to be changed. It’s a very kinetic show.

GLINSKI: I think the exploration of the other path confirmed our original choice, but also made it richer. So we got lots of story out of taking that little journey for a few days.

Sara Waisglass as Maxine, Chelsea Clark as Norah, Katie Douglas as Abby, and Antonia Gentry as Ginny on ‘Ginny & Georgia’.

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I felt so bad for Max (Sara Waisglass) at the end of this season. What can you say about what’s next for her?

LAMPERT: This was a little bit always the plan with Max, which is two sides of the same coin as Marcus [Felix Mallard]. They’re such polar opposites, but a lot of their struggles are similar but they present so differently. We put the burden of Marcus onto Max and we see how much she does deeply care about everyone in her life, but she’s neurodivergent and she doesn’t always have the tools to get what she wants, which is connection. Her worry is she can be too much. I think we see that this season. My favorite thing to do on the show is just subvert audiences’ expectations on what they think a character is like. Because one of the big themes of the show is everyone’s fighting a battle you can’t see. My heart broke for her this season.

GLINSKI: She has such a responsibility to fix things and to make sure everyone she loves is okay, and she takes that burden on every single day, even if people don’t appreciate it. You can see her parents this season really put that burden on her shoulders a lot to care for Marcus, and that’s really hard to carry that every single day.

We see Georgia’s past quite literally roll into town at the end of the season. How will this impact her journey to change (or not change)?

LAMPERT: What we can say about season 4 is that the theme is cycles and origins. So that kind of answers your question a little in the sense that we’ll be grappling with Georgia’s past, but I won’t go into specifics.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Ginny & Georgia is streaming in Netflix now.

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