Ramwina

[ramwina]

Well, it happened- and i think most of us felt it coming. Deep down, i felt it for weeks but kept holding out this sliver of hope. Despite seeing so much writing on so many damn walls.

I found this show in April 2020, when the world was going to shit. It allowed me to escape into the GG world and just forget the messed up reality that was happening outside our houses. Then, I found this fandom and realized that I wasn’t crazy for being obsessed with this show.

As a 42-year old mom, i saw myself in each of the girls and it was empowering. I am a business owner and thankfully don’t have the economic hardships the girls experienced, but i found a kinship with them unlike anything else i have experienced before. I have been able to relate to Beth’s desire to be something “more” and her struggle of balance .

And , of course, i was sucked into the Brio chemistry and have been able to appreciate Rio’s …..everything.

The cancellation is not a shock, as many shows end and this is part of tv. An ending had to happen at one point.

I think what makes me the saddest, and even frustrated, is the lack of balance between what the writers wanted and what had worked in earlier seasons and what made the show popular (albeit with a small minority, i know it was never a super big hit). But it seemed like after 2.13, the writers felt obligated to continue the shithole they created with that ending and then fell down that path and absolutely refused to backtrack.

Pride definitely seemed to take over and they were insistent on proving that their plan and vision for the show (after 2.13) was brilliant. How much better (for us fans, haha, but probably for their damn ratings as well) would it have been to : acknowledge the shooting, have them discuss it, deal with it and then move the storyline along to other things. It didn’t even necessarily need to be hot-sex Brio, but just something different than the last year and a half of this cat and mouse of “i want to kill him”, etc. Diversifying that storyline would have allowed for richer and deeper developments of the other characters and propelled the show forward in another way.

But it wasn’t our show to write, haha, and so we have what we have. And i will go down loving this show because of what i has meant to me in this specific period of my life. I am thankful for it, for this fandom, for this little corner of the universe that exists in this bubble of Good Girls and Rio and Brio and all of its craziness. So lets see what the next few episodes bring, i will enjoy every minute and be thankful for them. Its not perfect, but its our show and therefore it is perfect for us! ❤️✌️😍

[sdktrs12]

WIP word - neck

Thank youuu! 💕

la petite mort -

She has a split second to register it’s the guy with the neck tattoo before he spins her around.

Persuasion -

He’s wearing dark jeans and a crisp dark blue button up, the sleeves rolled neatly up to his elbows. Despite the warmth of the day, he’s buttoned all the way to his neck.

Send me a word and I'll give you a WIP!

[ramwina]

Im somewhere between feeling sorry for Bill Krebs and his amount of questions/answers and being flabbergasted at his devotion to helping out fans aka making clear what should be pretty damn clear in a show.

But wouldn’t it be easier on him and all the fans if maybe, just maybe, they were a bit more clear on the show with where they are taking the storyline?

But the again , im no show writer, so who am i to judge? It sure is fun seeing his responses though.

[hopeamikaelsons]

GOOD GIRLS (2018– ) Season 4, Episode 7 – Carolyn With a Y

[ramwina]

His stupid, self-satisfied, smug smile in the last one. He knows what he (his fingers) did, he knows she liked it and he knows it will lead to more....

Someone write a fic about what he was thinking during this scene , stat!

[ramwina]

So the last scene where Rio asks her to make her choice, and he says “you have the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other”. Im reading the choice being made by her as foreshadowed in the jacuzzi ending scene with Dean.

Angels are usually shirtless, in most artistic depictions, which Dean obviously is in the jacuzzi (gross, i know). Angels are usually smiling and happy, which Dean is in the jacuzzi.

The devil is usually in black, fully clothed and not smiling. Both Beth and Rio are in black, fully clothed and definitely not smiling in those ending car scenes .

So im just going to have this be my truth and reality until proven otherwise: Beth chooses Rio, chooses crime, chooses that life. Don’t burst my bubble, this is the world i will blissfully inhabit , at least until next Sunday. ✌️

[nbcgoodgirlsdaily]

2x04 // 4x06

[caption: 10 gifs of beth and rio froom good girls. half of the gifs are from the bathroom break in 2x04 and the other half from their hook-up in rio’s grandma’s house in 4x06. the gifs alternate between the two scenes, starting with the one from 2x04.

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[ramwina]

So many many thoughts about the episode, but the one that thing that keeps happy-haunting me is his furrowed brow in that third from last. He is concentrating, he is into it, he is leaning into her, he is hearing her, he is holding himself back a bit, he is .....just so much feeling in that little forehead and brow crease. And it makes me happy because it means SO much!!!!

[ramwina]

Arghhh, I generally don’t like complaining about the show and I have been good with the way its been progressing this season. In the end, its a TV show and I can choose to not watch it if I am super unhappy with it. But last night’s episode made me sad/mad in a way that I cannot not say anything.

We all know that Beth is a curvy woman. They have never tried to hide that before and I don’t feel like it has ever been downplayed in any way by the way they have dressed her. But....BUT!!! Why in God’s green earth did they feel like they needed a body double with a perfectly flat stomach?????? Not only is it completely unrealistic, based on anyone looking at Beth’s body the last four seasons, but I am sure there has got to be at least one curvy body-double in all of Hollywood that they could have found.

The message this sends is quite troubling, in terms of the ideal body. So, as viewers, we are supposed to be dumb enough to believe that a mom of FOUR kids and a woman that has enormous breasts has a completely flat stomach???? It’s ridiculously unrealistic, and further perpetuates the “ideal” body, which is actually anything but ideal. For a show that is supposed to be all about female empowerment and positivity, they missed a huge chance to prove that.

I understand that it’s triggering to me, being a curvy mom myself. But this is not the bullshit body-image crap I want my daughter to see and think that she should strive for. Yuck, writers, you did us wrong. Please be better. For our sake and the sake of our daughters....

[ramwina]

Dr Doctor,

Just wanted to let you know that i took your advice and when i went to a bar for a business meeting, you would be proud to know i asked for a non-alcoholic non-caffeinated drink.

Thank you,

Beth Boland!

She tried, bless her heart. It’s the thought that counts.

[ramwina]

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Is Reno making fun of Manny’s repetitive “im from LBC”??

[hypermania]

What do you think Ruby means in 2x06 when she says that Rio probably has a gun Beth and blood diamond Beth and human trafficking Beth?

re: this scene

beth: it’s not fair. we deserve a cut.

ruby: [sarcastically] ‘cause that’s what it’s about.

beth: what else would it be about?

ruby: drug beth?

beth: whatever.

annie: wait, what’s drug beth?

ruby: [points at beth] counterfeit beth [points in the nebulous area behind her] drug beth. and you know he’s got a gun beth and a blood diamond beth and a human trafficking beth…

so, i’ve seen other people take that comment to mean that rio’s just using beth for whatever criminal activities he’s got going on and will continue to do so even as he “flips [his] game” from one operation to another. that’s one interpretation.

personally, i think ruby meant that beth was just one of a handful of women he was both sleeping with and using to do his business with. beth was a part of his counterfeit operation and he was sleeping with her—counterfeit beth. dylan was a part of his drug operation and, based on the way he hugged her and interacted with her, it looked like he was also sleeping with her—therefore she was drug beth.  ruby took it further saying that rio’s got a woman he’s using/sleeping with for any other game he might have his hand in—guns, blood diamonds, human trafficking (ruby went a little overboard haha). but she just meant that beth wasn’t special because she wasn’t the only one rio had that type of relationship with, and that was the real reason beth was going through all that trouble to screw rio over with the pills. she was hurt. ruby was calling her out (by calling rio ‘i’ve got hoes in different area codes’ gangfriend out). 

[xstrawmari]

"One, two, three" Annie yelled, tossing the flowers over her right shoulder. She turned around and watched as it gracefully flew through the air.

It went over Ruby's head and brushed the tips of their cousin's fingers before falling into Beth's hands. The guests cheered and a few of Annie's coworkers from Fine and Frugal gave her congratulatory pats on the back. 

Beth plopped down in her seat, placing the flowers off to her right side and tried her best to ignore the shit eating grin from Rio. She couldn't, "what?".

"Nothin, just wonderin' who the lucky guy is".

This AU has taken over my life and I'm okay with it. *cue nervous laughter as I stare at the outline that has at least 15 unwritten scenes*

[ramwina]

Is there an analysis of Episode 11 in Season 2 and what both of them were thinking while in Rio’s loft? And during the 20-questions? Its such a tension-filled scene, would be great to get some in-depth on it. Thanks!