What's old is new again: Netflix announces a new show with a familiar premise

August 13th, 2019, 06:40 pm

What's old is new again: Netflix announces a new show with a familiar premise

Netflix announced a new show that sounds incredibly similar to another mother-daughter show https://t.co/pN4BVyzGbC
— Vulture (@vulture) August 14, 2019

• Earlier today Netflix announced their new show called Ginny and Georgia.

• Georgia is a former teen mom who is described as being "irresistible and dynamic" while her daughter, Ginny, is a “very smart, rebellious, and vulnerable teenager beneath an armor of outspokenness and quick wit.” And the twist is that the teen daughter acts like the grown up of the house!

• The series takes place in a "picturesque" New England town. Ginny tries to adjust to life at a fancy private school, and juggles multiple love interests.

• The series just started filming but there's already a trailer for the first few episodes!

ontd, do you think the creators of the show intentionally picked the names of Rory's half sister, and one of the girls from Bunheads for their main characters?

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Tagged: gilmore girls (cw / netflix), netflix, you in danger

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I got I think 4 seasons into GG but honestly I could not stand Lorelai. I think I gave up after the episode where the grandparents invite like 50 guys over to find Rory a beau because it was too OTT to even entertain me.

I don't like the episode where Rory is super drunk & a bartender gives in when she demands another drink.

Oh god, when she's doing her best Napoleon Dynamite impression? "I don't like people touching my STUFF." She was the actual worst by that point.

almost everyone in the show is unlikeable tbh.

Rory is the worst.

i had some things in my life that were similar to gg, though sadly set in florida rather than conneticut so the least they could do is change the location.

anytime gilmore girls is mentioned I think of this

omg the actress playing Rory especially fricking nailed it, lmao

LMAO this is so accurate it hurts. MATtv was hilarious. So many of their actors did spot-on impressions.

this demands historic preservation

lmao I remember seeing this on TV when it aired and DYING. It was so fucking accurate.

Lmaooooo i cant. Damn madtv nailed so much shit but it would be so inappropriate today.

This sketch SLAYS me

i've never seen anything more perfect

I mean, the idea of an immature mature whose daughter has to act like the adult isn't that original per se, but the whole concept really sounds a lot like Gilmore Girls.

Aka: The Stillmore Girls. No thanks.

Michel, Emily, and Paris (and Kurt) were the only characters I finished the series for.

The side characters definitely gave the show much more life. Paris is the best. I also really liked the Sookie and Jackson relationship in the middle.

lol weird. i just started rewatching gg

Wasn't Rory's half sister named Gigi. I don't remember it being a nickname??

Yeah, Georgia, Gigi for short, which Lorelai took offense to because it sounded vaguely like "Rory," lol.

Ah ok! I couldn't remember if her name was a nickname, I just remember it being Gigi, lol

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and Gigi's mom was Mädchen Amick!

lol, this sounds amusingly lazy. Also, Bunheads was terrible; don't @ me.

It was awful plot-wise, but the dancing scenes were great

lmaoooo i just started watching bunheads and i think it's cute, but nothing groundbreaking. kelly bishop is a queen of course but why do we care about these four random teenage ballerinas? we don't!

Is it streaming anywhere?

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Same, it's entertaining and I love some of it but I honestly didn't really care about the teens and their storylines. Should've focused more on Sutton and Kelly, tbh.

I couldn’t get into that show either and my sisters loved it.

Bunheads had potential! They just had no budget and needed more time. :(

I still think of the dance scene to Istanbul not Constantinople when I hear the song. I loved having the dance scenes in the episodes. And I love Sutton.

But why? Are they losing the rights to stream Gilmore Girls?

Doubtful since they did the reunion series

i genuinely don't understand how this show was popular. i've tried to watch it so many times.

Same. I could never get past the first few episodes. It’s schmaltzy garbage and everyone talks too fast.

Same.
Maybe if I had watched it while it aired but I tried a few years ago and it was terrible. I got through a few seasons and was done.

I tried maybe twice lol and gave up after a few minutes. The fast talking was annoying and I didn’t like either of the main characters

same

I have a friend who's obsessed with GG and she says it's mainly because she has a very similar relationship with her mom that Rory and Lorelei have on the show. I think that is a large part of the appeal for so many fans.

But IA with you, I've never been able to get into it. It just doesn't come off as realistic to me.

Yeah I actually watched the series WITH my mom so that was definitely the appeal. Looking back though I'm like... ew lmao

i don't get it either, especially when they praise the acting. alexis was super wooden and both her and lauren could never manage to make the emotion reach their eyes, it was like watching robots trying to emote. the hype truly is just cause they talked a lot (and fast).

This sounds reeeeeally white.

i think the daughter is biracial actually but probably still

Edited at 2019-08-14 02:23 am (UTC)

Okay, so I’ve resisted watching Gilmore Girls forever now because half of the people I meet assume that I named my daughter after one or both of the main characters. (It doesn’t help that I was young when I had her, and we have an interesting dynamic.)

Is the show worth it? I know a lot of people hated the new episodes, and I have little in common with rich white women, soooooo...

It is not. They're both really annoying, talk way too fast about nothing, and it's a show definitely meant to stay in the past.

No. It was kind of just of its time I guess. I think it worked better as a once a week show when life moved a little bit more slowly. In the era of binging it really doesn't hold up well lol.

I just rewatched it and it's hit or miss. The first season or three, while Rory is in high school are the best imo. She hasn't gotten self important yet. Though she is really rude to one of the boyfriends in front of her grandmother and starts her better than the rest arch probably during that episode. I don't think they talk that fast, but I'm also from a state and area where we don't talk slow, so maybe that's why? A lot of pop culture references make more and less sense now. Some make less because it's over 10 years old, but some make more, because as an adult I know who they are talking about now. The mom is an adult child, which makes some sense, she was 16 and ran away after having a baby. The side characters are the funniest/best part of the show. If you want an era show, it's great. If you want a show where the people aren't assholes 75% of the time, don't watch it

if u had your daughter young then i'd say yes (but jane the virgin is much better) bc there's so little out there, it just gets v repetitive after a while.

i don't think it's worth it if you want something even mildly realistic about what young mothers have to go through, but otherwise it's cute. just not realistic at all, it's like fantasyland (much like the magazine where the girls from The Bold Type work).

It's a good show to watch while you're doing other stuff like folding laundry.

Georgia is manager of the Caterpillar Inn, her best friend is a chef named Suzy. Georgia and Ginny always have coffee at Duke's, the owner is always grumpy! Ginny is going to attend Wilton, a snooty private school.

Rory is picked on by a mean girl named London and meets a cute boy named Triscuit. But she already has two other love interests-- Mean and Mess.

LOL

NNNNNNN im howling

dead @ Triscuit

LMAOOOOOOO!

Lmaooooo

lol duke. he wears a frontward facing cap this time.

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Susie is the name of Midge’s manager on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel lol they need to pic another “s” name

ginny's wanted to go to princeton since she was a little girl, even though her grandparents want her to attend cornell

lmao wow @ some of the other character descriptions

"Felix Mallard will play Marcus. Marcus is the edgy, bad boy across the street you shouldn’t have a crush on but do. Maxine’s twin brother, he is intrigued with his new neighbor Ginny."

"Raymond Ablack will play Joe. Joe is granola in a manly way, not a man bun way. He owns the local farm to table restaurant, Blue Farm Cafe. And can’t help but notice when Georgia moves to town."

they're straight up not even trying to make this a different show.

wow. this sounds like a parody show-within-a-show type thing.

Sheeeeeeeeeet. This is blatant as hell.

RAYMOND ABLACK IS BAE AS HELL we stan my canadian king getting booked!

Ugh sis, you have great taste in everything! Sav was always sexy

Okay Sav Bhandari is in this????
I have to watch now, wtf

"granola in a manly way" WHAT EVEN IS THIS NONSENSE

lmao

i feel like i would have come up with more interesting descriptions in 8th grade

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