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Nothing scares Georgia Randolph (Brianne Howey) –– previously Georgia Miller –– more than being happy. “Once you’re happy, you have so much more to lose,” she narrates in a state of tentative bliss after her fairy-tale wedding to Mayor Paul Randolph (Scott Porter) in the Season 2 finale of Ginny & Georgia. 

For a moment, it seems like things are actually peachy for the new mayoress. But she has reason to be apprehensive — just when she starts to believe in the fairy tale, private investigator Gabriel Cordova (Alex Mallari Jr.) saunters right in with the Wellsbury police to arrest her for murder.

But this is Georgia — who’ll go to any ends to survive — so “it’s not over until it’s over,” Howey tells Tudum of her character. “We can’t wrap it up in a pretty bow. That’s not real life. That’s certainly not Georgia’s life. It never has been. Why would it start to be her life now?” 

Howey knew Georgia’s fate before she read creator/executive producer Sarah Lampert and executive producer/showrunner Debra J. Fisher’s “heartbreaking and kind of funny” script. “I loved it,” she says. “I love where Sarah and Deb’s minds go.” But Antonia Gentry, who plays Georgia’s daughter and maid of honor, Ginny, was none too pleased about her on-screen mother’s jailbird status. “I was mad,” she says. “I knew it was going to happen, and then when I watched it I was like, ‘Why is it over?’” 

So where will Ginny, Georgia and the stunned wedding guests turn now that Georgia’s locked up, mugshot and all? Tudum spoke with the cast and creators to answer your burning questions after that explosive finale. 

“I love the play on ‘I'm No Cinderella,’ and it's this whole Cinderella wedding. And then you learn, she is certainly no Cinderella,” Brianne Howey says of the finale’s final moments.

Wait, so why did Georgia get arrested? And who is Tom Fuller (Vincent Legault), again?

While we know that Georgia’s committed murder — three times now — and Ginny’s aware of a couple of those crimes, she’s evaded capture time and time again. Until now. When Georgia’s colleague Nick (Dan Beirne) lets it slip to Cordova (who’s been pretending to be his school teacher boyfriend for months) that Georgia was with Cynthia (Sabrina Grdevich) and her husband Tom when he died, Cordova jumps on the information and immediately calls the local police to report a suspected murder at the end of Episode 9. 

Unlike her previous kills, this one was actually a mercy kill for Georgia, who suffocated the comatose Tom with a pillow to spare his family from further suffering. Unfortunately, her son Austin (Diesel La Torraca) witnessed the whole thing from inside a nearby closet. (Talk about childhood trauma.) But this time, the creators wanted Georgia to get trapped in her own web of vigilante justice; as Lampert tells Tudum, “we have it all planned out.” 

“When we had to develop the storyline for Season 2, we knew exactly what we wanted Season 3 to be,” says Lampert. “Georgia needed to kill someone and she needed to kill someone in Wellsbury, Massachusetts.” Having spent Season 1 breaking down the characters, the creators then dedicated Season 2 to building them back up. When it comes around to Season 3, they will throw them “new hurdles, new relationships and new challenges.”

Where does Ginny and Marcus’ (Felix Mallard) relationship go from here?

Ginny and her literal boy next door forge a new way forward as friends by the season’s end, with Ginny receiving the closure she needs from his twin sister Max (Sara Waisglass) when she reveals the extent of Marcus’ depression. “Sometimes he just gets like this,” Max tells Ginny in the finale. “He kind of has these episodes. It’s happened before. We’re actually really worried about him.” 

Waisglass was glad to be the one to provide that insight, which many people don’t often receive in real life. “That moment is really good at subtly being like, ‘It had nothing to do with you. You did everything right,’ ” she tells Tudum. “And that someone else is just going through something really painful, which is very freeing for people to understand. It opens the door for them to be there for each other in other ways, which is really beautiful.”

Howey was also touched to be able to give Ginny “one of Georgia’s only good bits of advice” in that scene, encouraging her that “what he needs right now isn’t a girlfriend, it’s a friend.” Mallard hopes that going forward, Marcus can learn how to find some stability and be more forgiving towards himself. “As kind as he is to Ginny, I want him to be kind to himself,” he says.

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“I get lost in those eyes. Those blue baby blues,” Sara Waisglass (left) tells Tudum of Katelyn Wells (right). “Yeah, she’s amazing.”

And what about Max’s love triangle with Silver (Katelyn Wells) and her ex Sophie (Humberly González)?

Season 2 sees Max strike up a romance with high school costume designer Silver. “Max is very honest about who she is with Silver,” says Waisglass. “The fact that Silver doesn’t run away from that is something worth noting.”

On the Sophie front, Waisglass was proud of Max for standing up for herself when her ex suggested being friends. “As soon as Max starts to actually let go of Sophie and pursue other people who may actually really show her the love that she deserves, of course Sophie comes back and is like, ‘We have unfinished business,’ ” Waisglass says.

OK, so why did Georgia never tell Joe (Raymond Ablack) that she remembered him too, or choose to pursue their chemistry?

In the finale, Georgia and Paul make it down the aisle, but not before Joe shows up at her door, vintage Ray-Bans in hand, to lay it all on the line with his very longtime crush. Even though they finally acknowledge that he’s the person that gave her the sunglasses and half a sandwich that changed her life, Joe represents Georgia’s survival mode, and she can’t allow that.

“Being with Joe would be something just purely fun for Georgia, and that’s never been an option for her,” Howey says. “I don’t even think it’s on her radar, in a way, because she’s just trying to keep this house of cards together, keep her family together, keep the secrets buried. And [being with] Joe would almost be selfish.”

Gentry adds that Georgia getting together with Joe “would leave [the family] exposed in ways that they wouldn’t be with Paul.” But Waisglass seems to be Team Joe. When she watched the scene in which Georgia tells Marcus that “it’s noble to let someone who loves you go, if you’re only gonna hurt ‘em,” Waisglass immediately thought, “She ain’t saying that to [Marcus]. She’s saying that to Joe!” 

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Ginny (Antonia Gentry), Georgia (Brianne Howey) and Austin (Diesel La Torraca) in shock after Austin shoots his father, Gil (Aaron Ashmore), in the arm.

Please tell me that Gil (Aaron Ashmore) is gone for good?

Ugh, we wish we could. That remains to be seen. Even though Paul gets his lawyer involved and Cynthia blacklists him from renting any apartment in Wellsbury, Gil does love his son, so he may not give up on fighting for custody easily. 

“In Season 2, we dive right into the Gil of it all,” Howey says. “From the beginning, I knew what the past was going to be — it’s one of her layers. She’s a survivor in so many ways. That’s part of one of the many reasons she has these masks, and one of the many reasons she always has her guard up and is defensive and protective and worried.”

Despite shielding her kids from Gil’s abuse for years, when Gil attacks her with the kids upstairs, she can’t protect them from who he really is anymore. Tragically, it’s Austin who shoots his dad in the arm to save her.

“It’s all Ginny’s fault that Gil is back, because Ginny had no idea that he was a bad person,” Gentry says of Ginny mailing Austin’s letters to his dad in the Season 1 finale. “Once they come to that realization, it’s just even more like, ‘Wow, there’s just so much that kids don’t know.’ Poor Austin.”

With Georgia in jail now, where does that leave Ginny and Georgia’s relationship?

Quite frankly, Gentry “wants to see them in the same corner for longer than two episodes” after such a fraught season. Howey agrees. “That would be really nice,” she says. “They’ve already hit rock bottom, I don’t think it could get any worse than it’s already been. We can literally only go up from here.”

Additional reporting by Aramide Tinubu.

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