Review of Good Girls

Good Girls (2018–2021)
4/10
Interesting premise but goes from funny-dumb to frustrating-dumb
16 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I thought I found a great new series but after the first season it becomes mired in just being dumb instead of funny and dumb. In fact, it's actually frustrating. I'm really not familiar with Christina Hendricks except from Tin Star where I thought she was actually one of the few interesting characters. In Good Girls, they try too hard to keep Beth on the fence between bad ass and dumb blond, and her snarling at Rio & constantly questioning him as if she still hasn't figured out he's a baller gets sooo old. Mae Whitman as Annie starts out interesting but becomes grating with her endless sarcasm & animated caterpillar eyebrows. I'm calling it quits after Ruby & Beth rob the flop house and then stood there arguing, literally waiting to get busted by somebody. I mean, dumb can be funny for sure, but almost all of S2 is just not funny anymore. It spends too much time just framing the same tired scenarios again and again and having these never-learn-from-their-mistakes women throwing themselves against the brick wall of incompetency. I enjoyed the first season but halfway through S2 I'm feeling really let down.
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