(Warning: Spoilers ahead!)

Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia has always been a lot of show—usually, too much.

On its face, a dramedy about the lives of a young mother (Brianne Howey as Georgia) and her teenage daughter (Antonia Gentry as Ginny) in a tight-knit New England town is quintessential Gilmore Girls (in Season 1, Georgia explicitly likens the two of them to Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, only “with bigger boobs”).

The tone of Ginny & Georgia’s teen storylines careen between the likes of Dawson’s Creek, Euphoria, and an after-school special, even as the show has thankfully made some progress in handling topics like self-harm and depression. Then there’s Georgia, whose own plot has grown into a soapy suburban crime drama that rivals the likes of Desperate Housewives and How To Get Away With

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