Some good girls have children and jobs. They
are the working poor who have high levels of personal stress. What do they do
about it? Fight back against struggle street? The Good Girls television series
and the Ocean’s 8 movie represent a new era of story-telling where women do crime and
get away with it, or do they?
Hello Friends,
My youngest daughter recommended that I watch “Good Girls” on
Netflix after she’d seen most of the series. I liked the concept of bad-ass mothers
banding together and taking care of business, so I watched the first episode
and I was hooked. I’m up to episode six out of ten, and trying not to binge
watch or I’ll be asking, what’s next. Good Girls is a quality production for
television featuring great actresses, interesting plot lines, and a soundtrack
that matches.
The comedy-drama series pivots around three mothers.
Ruby is the waitress who
has to earn tips to make up her low pay. She is married to a man who works in
security and trains to be a police officer. Her young daughter has a kidney
problem which requires a transplant or expensive experimental drugs that cost
$10,000 per month, out of pocket.
Annie is a single mother
who works as a check-out chick on a minimum wage. Her ex-partner is going to
sue her for custody of their only child.
Beth is the stay-at-home
mother who is ignorant of family finances and lets her husband manage the money.
He makes some mistakes, including the affair with his secretary, and then there’s
no money left.
So out of financial desperation, the three American suburban
mothers rob a supermarket. They expect to steal $30,000. When they count the
cash, it's half a million dollars. They didn’t know they’d stolen laundered
money owned by a gang of bad dudes.
The mums become even more desperate when the gang turns up at
the family home, asking for the cash back, and they’ve already spent thousands
of dollars.
The leader of the gang is mister darkly, sort of attractive
guy, called Rio. He is an expert at invading personal spaces, playing on the women's fears and psychologically luring them into doing more crime. He’s a devil. But
they never seem to resist him, even when he is ripping them off.
Rio and Beth have a simmering chemistry together. She
symbolically hangs her motherly, pearl necklace on a door at a warehouse
where Rio and his terrible team had previously counterfeited bank notes. Why did she do
that, and what does it mean? Is she leaving behind her innocence?
I screamed inside, Beth, don’t fall for the bad guy. You know he’ll
leave you in a mess and probably in jail. But it’s irresistible to watch Beth’s
raw vulnerability when he’s slinking around her. The what if, she did get with
him. Rio’s curiosity over a suburban mother caught in his trap of crime is also riveting. His
cunning. His direct gaze with the undertone of smoldering attraction. Rio and
Beth push me to the edge of sanity, and keep me watching.
Each episode of Good Girls has another twist. There’s more
secrets for the women to keep from their families. Lies and deception. Their
financial situations keep getting worse and worse. Rio lurks in the background
with his offers of money that come with personal challenges. The ordinary lives
the mothers knew are unraveling, but they don’t know what they are becoming.
Have a happy weekend.
♥ Ashlyn
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