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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Ginny & Georgia' Season 3 stars are as shocked by insane cliffhanger ending as fans are
The incredibly popular Netflix show Ginny & Georgia took a dark and emotional turn for Season 3, and the stakes have never been higher for Georgia Miller (Brianne Howey) and her children Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and Austin (Diesel La Torraca). Season 2 ended with Georgia being arrested at her wedding to Paul Randolph (Scott Porter), the mayor of Wellsbury, and throughout the season the big question is whether she'll be convicted of murder. But there's something interesting that Brianne Howey does in her portrayal of Georgia this season that really amplifies the character's dramatic journey. In the first episode, as Georgia is being held in a cell after her arrest, we see Georgia trying to curl her hair with her finger. Throughout the season, how Georgia styles her hair, or doesn't, is a really effective visual representation of her mental state as her murder trial takes place. "Georgia is code-switching physically and is constantly undergoing transformations," Howey told Yahoo Canada. "And this is, unfortunately, one of the more raw transformations we see from Georgia, because ... she can't physically use any of the masks she's been hiding behind. She has no more scapegoats. ... No one's in her corner." "So it was very intentional, trying to crimp and curl the hair back up. ... The limp hair is sort of a metaphor for Georgia this season. There's no bells and whistles. This is Georgia's breakdown season and we see if she rises from the ashes, or not, by the end." Of course, her mother's arrest significantly impacts Ginny, but she is able to channel some of her emotions into a poetry class she starts taking, also sparking a romance with a classmate named Wolfe (Ty Doran). While Ginny goes through some incredibly heartbreaking moments in Season 3, which we won't completely spoil, we do see her really taking a more active role in her life, taking control of her decisions. "Finally!" Gentry said. "I think it's so fun." "She's still reckless, but she's aware. She's making the choices. It's less her reacting to her situation and she's ... going to set things in motion. She's taking more agency in the things that are going on in her life, and I think that's really exciting. ... I hope we see more of that in the future for Ginny." Throughout all three seasons of Ginny & Georgia, Sara Waisglass as Maxine "Max" Baker is always a highlight. But this season the energetic teen is in a tough spot. She starts really feeling left out of her friend group, particularly when Ginny and Abby (Katie Douglas) start spending a lot more time together, without Max. "It was a little hard for me, just because I definitely went through that in high school," Waisglass said. "I am also a deeply sympathetic person and I overthink, and I think me and Max are kind of the same when it comes to that." "I was excited, because it's always great when you can bring something to screen that you know a lot of people will resonate with. But it also sucked, because obviously I'm living in her shoes and all these scenes where people are calling her dramatic, or there's inside jokes that she doesn't understand. It's hard to be in that skin and actually have that happen to you. So it was definitely a challenge, but also one that I'm really proud of, because I really do think it translates on screen quite beautifully." What also makes Season 3 of Ginny & Georgia stand out is that the season really amplifies Marcus' (Felix Mallard) story. We really sit in the darkness of Marcus' depression, leading to a finale that's so incredibly emotional and brutal to watch. But Felix Mallard stressed that these big emotional swings are what actors "dream" of being able to take on. "You want your character to kind of go through big emotional journeys, big emotional arcs, and I think especially with Marcus, things get really interesting when he's not in a very good place," Mallard said. "And it provides such an opportunity to try and play, and push and pull, especially ... to play with our dynamic of Maxine wanting to help him and not being able to, and Marcus kind of being caught in his self-destructive cycle." Being given the task of going to quite dark places for the character, Mallard has his own process to get out of that character when his work as Marcus is done. "Everyone has their own techniques. Everyone has their own ways of getting in and out of it. I think for me, I think there needs to be such an understanding of, you're at work, there's a stunt, and then you go home," he said. "And protecting yourself and wanting to understand that place, and come from a place of vulnerability and truth. And then also to be able to take your makeup off at the end of the day and go home and let it be, because we're playing pretend." "But I think certainly for Marcus, there's some playlists that kind of put you in a weird space, or put you in maybe a more vulnerable state. I think we've worked with some really wonderful directors and there was a lot of support on both sides of the camera to kind of help us understand how far we can go, and hopefully we did it justice." Once we get to the final minutes of Ginny & Georgia Season 3, it ends with another "WTF" moment that will not only shock fans, but will make the audience crave another season. But fans aren't the only ones left in disbelief with all these Ginny & Georgia cliffhangers. "I think I had to read the last few pages of Episode 10 five times before I understood what was happening," Gentry said. "And I still don't think I get it, which is good, it keeps me on my toes."
Telegraph
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Ginny and Georgia, season 3, review: a perfect example of the addictive Netflix formula
In the market for a soapy drama about a beautiful, whip-smart single mother and her clever yet dreadfully dull and endlessly ungrateful teenage daughter? Gilmore Girls might have already nailed that formula 20 years ago, but because television is just an infinite cycle of reboots, sequels, prequels or blatant rip-offs these days, it was only a matter of time until a streamer tried to replicate that show's schmaltzy charm. Enter Ginny & Georgia (Netflix). Among Netflix 's most popular original series, it's back for a third season that is once again filled with – deep breath – murder, small-town politics, mother-daughter bickering, sex, snogging and property porn. One imagines it came about when an executive marched into work the morning after his daughter forced him to watch Gilmore Girls and demanded a modern update, only crossed with Narcos, because American audiences can't get enough of crime. Georgia (Brianne Howey) is a Southern belle and single mother-of-two with a dark past: childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, poverty. A cycle of marrying rich then moving on, culminated, prior to the events of the first season, in her murdering her grope-happy husband (spoiler alert: he's not the only man she's sent to the pearly gates). Now, a few years on, her perfect new life in an idyllic New England town – complete with perfect New England man, in the form of local mayor Paul Randolph (Friday Night Lights' Scott Porter) – is starting to unravel. Season two ended with Georgia being escorted in handcuffs from her fairytale wedding to Paul , accused of murdering a neighbour's terminally ill husband. In her eyes, it was a mercy killing, though the rest of the town – and the law – doesn't see it that way. Most of season three's 10 episodes revolve around the court case, which turns into a media sensation. Howey is warm, funny and impossible not to root for, despite her penchant for killing off her exes. Flashback scenes patch together her traumatic past (her younger self affectingly portrayed by Nikki Roumel) and further elicit the audience's empathy: she might be a killer, but all of her victims were abusive or cruel. She might lie and steal, but it's only to provide for her family. The latter consists of teenage daughter Ginny (Antonia Gentry), possibly the most annoying TV character to have emerged in the past decade – and I've watched all of And Just Like That, so I'm unfortunately familiar with Che Diaz – due to her constant whining, whingeing and weeping. Fair enough, her mother's a criminal, her little brother (Diesel La Torraca) is painfully shy, troubled and keeps mauling other kids at school, but that's no excuse. Ginny and Georgia would benefit hugely from the showrunners omitting the Ginny half of the title. Season three ends, as expected, with Georgia walking free, having recruited her kids to frame an old nemesis for the crime. After bingeing all 10 hour-long episodes, you might find yourself in a rut of self-loathing: 'I know this isn't 'good',' you'll think, 'so why can't I stop watching?' Because it's the perfect example of the Netflix formula: soapy, cheesy fun led by unbelievably good-looking actors. It's not The Sopranos. It's not even Gilmore Girls. It's just shiny, addictive escapism.
Miami Herald
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
TV Tinsel: Scott Porter on his circuitous journey to ‘Ginny & Georgia'
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - Actor Scott Porter can make sounds with his throat like a trumpet or an electric guitar or even sleigh bells. But somehow that's not a big seller in show business. Fortunately for Porter he found something else he was good at: acting. Making musical gurgles doesn't sound like a sure way to the top. But he says he's been forced to entertain by his own DNA. "I came up in a performing family," he explains. "My mom and dad met in a rock band when I was 6 years old, and I traveled with them quite a bit. I helped my dad set up his drums set, would fall asleep in the bar manager's office, or play foosball with the bouncer while they played up on stage across the Midwest. So performance was a part of my DNA from a very young age," he says. Folks can see the results when they view the affable Porter playing the city mayor in the Netflix dramady, "Ginny & Georgia," returning on June 5. As it might sound, Porter's journey from his native Omaha, Nebraska, to "Ginny & Georgia" was a circuitous one. A self-described "extroverted introvert," he moved often as a kid as his parents pursued their careers. While Porter never knew his bio-dad, he is devoted to his stepfather and extended family. "Being a son of artists, which are what my parents are in their hearts, we jumped around a lot," he says. "I went to six different elementary and middle schools. I was always the new kid. I was always having to fight to find my place in whatever new situation I was in. Being the new kid puts a little bit of a chip on your shoulder. You have to prove yourself to everybody around you at all times so that you can fit in as quickly as possible and have some type of safety net or find one friend at least to hang onto. And being an only child, that was going through all of those switches by myself." It was his love of reading and a vivid imagination that pushed him through. "I would play multi-week campaigns with my G.I. Joes where there would be a full storyline and there would be tragedy and comedy and triumphs," he chuckles. He also loved video games and proved an avid reader. "As a kid I was very just interested in long-form storytelling and being whisked away from my bedroom in Nebraska to incredible lands and other places and living life through those stories." The 45-year-old Porter was an only child until he was 7 and then he got a brother - only to lose him two years later. The boy was a foster child, and as Porter puts it, "The state doesn't always have your back in this situation, and eventually we lost custody of him back to the state and back to his family. And saying goodbye to him was a very large shaping part of my life." Two more siblings eventually arrived, but Porter was already 15 when his sister was born, 18 when his brother was delivered. As a high school graduate, Porter planned to play football and major in structural engineering at Carnegie Mellon, when he unexpectedly snagged a job. "Music was a passion of mine, and I had been performing to help pay my way through school when I was offered a full-time position singing doo-wop music at Universal Studios in Florida. And once I started taking a paycheck to work full time as a performer and realized, at 19, that I might be able to make a living doing this, there was no turning back." That job led to "beatboxing," which is making musical sounds with your voice. Porter traveled the world beatboxing and earned a role in the off-Broadway show "Altar Boyz" which eventually led to an agent. He had been acting only a year when he landed the role of a lifetime. He played the team quarterback who is paralyzed after an injury in the unforgettable NBC series "Friday Night Lights." "To say it changed my life doesn't begin to approach what 'Friday Night Lights' actually did for me," he says. "There was a trust from the very top of the show with Pete Berg and Jason Katims all the way down to every member of our crew on set." Even so Porter suffered a fallow period just before "Ginny & Georgia" surfaced. "I had really been starving for work for about two years. I wasn't booking anything, and I looked at my wife and I said, 'I think I need to do something to jump-start my career again and I don't know what that is.' And I was scared that was this my time. Do I never work again? And am I not good enough anymore?" He was performing in local theater when the pivotal role in "Ginny & Georgia" appeared. While Porter's engrossed in his work, he's also a steadfast family man. He's the father of two children, and his wife of 12 years has been diagnosed with Huntington's disease. Porter is in Huntsville to support a charity which seeks to educate people about the disease and to eventually find a cure. And so far, his wife, Kelsey, is without symptoms. "But from the moment that she found out she had HD, she looked at me with a stillness that I still can't describe to this day and said, 'It was a 50-50 shot. It was a coin flip, and it came up tails.' And within two hours, a drive home and a quiet lunch at home, she turned to me and said, 'I want to be a mother as long as I can, so let's figure out how to have kids safely.' And we did. We went on a very long journey with IVF to make sure that our children did not have the Huntington's gene." The real Pee-Wee exposed in documentary Paul Reubens, better known as Pee-wee Herman, is the subject of an intense two-part documentary streaming on Max called "Pee-wee as Himself." Viewers who remember his man-child character always knew him as Pee-wee, and that's the way he wanted it. Reubens insisted on maintaining his alter-ego in public, so the real person behind the white cheeked mask is little known. He was famous for his five-season run on CBS's "Pee-wee's Playhouse" and several Pee-wee films, as well as appearances all over screenland. In "Pee-wee as Himself" documentarian Matt Wolf exposes the real man behind the clownish character. But it was not easy, says Wolf. "When Paul sat down, he was very rebellious and slippery. He wouldn't follow my lead with any questions. He wanted snacks, pretzels, lollipops. He would make funny facial expressions, and it was a competitive dynamic. I remember before the shoot, I said 'Typically when we do these interviews, people sort of get tired around five hours.' And he said, 'I'm not gonna get tired, you're gonna get tired.' And I said, 'Well actually I could literally go on forever.' So it was kind of like game-on from the beginning. But he was sort of rebelling, procrastinating, giving me a hard time." Wolf eventually coaxed Reubens into revealing uncomfortable truths about himself. But he kept one thing from everybody - even Wolf. And that was the diagnosis of leukemia and lung cancer. "I'm en route to Los Angeles to proceed with filming this final interview, and I got a text from my executive at HBO with a post from Instagram saying, 'Is this real?' "And it was a post that announced that Paul Reubens had passed away. And I was just in total, total shock. And I called Emma (Tillinger Koskoff), our producer, and we were just surreal. Like nothing you can imagine experiencing that someone you've spoken to for literally hundreds and hundreds of hours could keep a secret like this from you." Tudyk returns to alien country Alan Tudyk not only returns as everybody's favorite alien in "Resident Alien," he's also directing the first two episodes of Season 4, premiering on USA and Syfy June 6. The series will stream on Peacock a week later. Tudyk is hilarious as the alien who's desperate to fit in with an exotic society that he doesn't understand. Like most actors, he struggled for several years before he landed on the stage and accelerated his career. Money was really tight, he says. And while he was struggling, he made one commercial for General Mills. "It was when they were lowering their prices on their cereals, and I played a kid who was lowering prices in the aisle. And I get stampeded by a bunch of people. I made $4,000. I got a check for $3,000, and I left the next day for Spain. And I spent it all. I always wanted to travel. So I went to Spain, came home from Spain and rent was due, and I thought, 'Oh, I spent all my money.' And then I won the Clarence Derwent (acting) award which gave me a good amount of money for rent. So things have been fortunate." Film features Reddick's last role The fifth film in the "John Wick" franchise arrives in box offices June 6. This one is titled "From the World of John Wick: Ballerina," and stars Ana de Armas as the protagonist who is undergoing assassin training. It also features the last role played by Lance Reddick who died of heart disease two years ago. Reddick was a classy man, and when I interviewed him shortly before his death, he told me, "Acting was something I literally stumbled onto late. I was 27 when I started acting. I studied classical music and thought I was going to be a classical composer. "I went to Eastman School of Music and left Eastman because I realized I was in denial and I really wanted to be a rock star," he said. "So I got married straight out of school, moved to Boston because my wife at the time was from there. Two years later my daughter was born, and I found myself working three jobs seven days a week." It was then that he suffered a serious back injury. "I was lifting a big bundle of newspapers, but it wasn't the lifting itself, it was the exhaustion. I'd come from a double shift of waiting tables to a double shift of delivering newspapers, and I delivered the Wall Street Journal in downtown Boston, and it was the 100th anniversary of the Wall Street Journal so it was a double edition. "I just cranked it up for about 24 hours, and I was just exhausted and something went. At the time I was used to working on adrenaline, and I worked out every day - even with all I had going on. So when I was in pain or exhausted, I just ignored it and kept going," he said. "About two weeks later I woke up one day and couldn't' get out of bed. I was in bed for about two weeks, and it really made me reevaluate what I was doing. It sounds crazy but I thought, 'Well, I know the recording studio I'm working with is taking me for a ride. It's time for me to admit that to myself. So let me start from scratch. I can sing and I can act. So let me try to act.'" ________ Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 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Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scott Porter Reveals When He Plans on Letting His Kids Watch 'Friday Night Lights: '‘Got a Little Bit of Time' (Exclusive)
Scott Porter revealed to PEOPLE when he will let his two kids, Clover and McCoy, watch his NBC series Friday Night Lights The 45-year-old actor said he will likely wait until his elementary-school-aged children are 'maybe' in 'middle school' before introducing them to the show The actor also shared that he has been introducing his kids to some of his favorite '80s and '90s classics, like E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Goonies and LabyrinthScott Porter's kids aren't going to be watching Friday Night Lights anytime soon! Porter, who played Jason Street on the hit NBC drama, spoke to PEOPLE exclusively while attending the 2025 NAMI Mental Health Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Thursday, May 8. During the conversation, the actor revealed that he's got 'a little bit of time' before his elementary-school-aged kids, daughter Clover and son McCoy, begin watching the show. 'I think we won't watch that show until both of [them] are maybe middle school age. So, I think I've got a little bit of time yet,' Porter, 45, said. Porter appeared on the show, which ran from 2006 to 2011, for three seasons before leaving to pursue other opportunities. is now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! 'They've only watched one live-action project that I've been in,' he continued while speaking to PEOPLE. 'It was a Hallmark movie called Taking the Reins. They were so confused why Daddy was with this other woman in the movie." 'I said, 'That's not me. That's a character that I'm playing.' They haven't quite grasped that yet, even though we do movie night every Friday. They see plenty of characters on-screen. I don't think they've detached real people from live-action characters yet,' he added, noting that they seem to grasp his voice-over work in projects like Spidey and His Amazing Friends more easily. 'The animated — all of the video game stuff — they've seen a ton of that and they really enjoy it.' The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! The Hart of Dixie actor also told PEOPLE that he has been introducing his kids to some of his favorite '80s and '90s movies. 'We've watched E.T. We've watched [...] Raiders of the Lost Ark. We've watched Goonies, Labyrinth. So, we're working our way up.' Porter attended the NAMI event with his wife of 12 years, Kelsey Mayfield, whom he met on the set of Friday Night Lights. During the conversation, he shared 'the secret' to their continued bond. 'Just find your best partner,' he said. 'It's just about finding that partnership.' 'She picks me up so often. I'm there for her when she needs me, and we always just check in with each other. 'What's your battery at? Are you at 50%? I can carry a little bit extra load today,' " he continued. 'So, we check in with each other. We pick up that load.' The actor also said that their current lives would not be possible without their partnership. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. 'My career is not possible without her. Our beautiful kids aren't taken care of without both of us being there. And all of her charitable endeavors don't happen unless I'm there to pick up the slack sometimes for her,' he explained. 'And I'm just very fortunate to be in a career where, when I'm working, I'm working, yes, but when I'm home, I am home, and I get to spend so much time with her and with our kids. So, I think all those things help make this particular relationship successful.' Most recently, Porter will be reprising his role as Mayor Paul Randolph in season 3 of the drama series Ginny & Georgia, which premieres on Netflix on June 5. Read the original article on People
