Good Girls

Good Girls is an NBC show and it has a small fandom dedicated to it. It is set in the same universe as Superstore and Mindy Project.
==Canon==
===Main Characters===
* Beth Boland, a mother of four and housewife whose car salesman husband cheated on her
* Ruby Hill, Beth and Annie's best friend, a waitress who is struggling to pay for her daughter Sara's kidney disease treatments
* Annie Marks, Beth's younger sister, a single mother who works at the supermarket as a cashier and whose ex is suing her for full custody of their daughter
* Dean Boland, Beth's cheating car salesman husband who lost all their money
* Stan Hill, Ruby's cop husband
* Rio, a criminal who has a money laundering business
* Sara Hill, Ruby's and Stan's daughter who has kidney disease
* Sadie Marks, Annie's and Gregg's genderqueer child
==Fandom==
Good Girls fandom is mainly located on Tumblr, YouTube and Archive of Our Own. Fans on Tumblr initially organized around the tag Good Girls, but as of December 12, 2018, that tag was no longer available.Tumblr post by rioskingdom, discussing the missing Good Girls tag and how to appropriately tag content, Decmeber 12 2018. This is more than likely due to the Tumblr purge of NSFW content. Fans resorted to tagging their content as NBC Good Girls.
The fandom is mainly dedicated to main characters: Beth Boland, Ruby Hill, Annie Marks and Rio. The noncanon pairing Beth/Rio (Brio) is one of the major pairings in the fandom and the one that produces the most fanfiction, discussion and gifsets.57 works of Beth/Rio at AO3 compared to the 60 works in the fandom overall as of May 25, 2018. Many of the gifsets and discussion on Tumblr is focused on the pairing or on Beth & Rio characters. The Beth/Rio pairing seems to be liked or at least supported by TPTB.Good Girls Official YouTube makes a mash up video highlighting Beth & Rio's relationship.Retta Knows Whats Up video of the actress Retta (Ruby Hill) talking about Beth/RioReaction post about Season 2 & Another Reaction tumblr postAnother Tumblr post about Beth/Rio S2 possible spoilers by AusielloGood Girls Creator Jenna Bans On Strong Women, Close Friendship and #MeToo Parade.com. April 24, 2018. The canon Ruby/Stan is also cherished in the fandom. The other canon pairing of Beth and her husband, Dean, appears in fanfiction, but not favorable due to his actions on the show (Infidelity, losing the family's money, faking cancer) and the character is generally disliked nearly as much as the other girls enemies, Boomer (attempted rape of Annie, his general attitude towards women but especially Annie, Beth & Ruby) and Mary Pat (single parent who blackmails Annie, Beth & Ruby).
Fanfiction first appeared on Archive of Our Own on March 25, 2018.Him & I by thingcalledlove fic was posted to AO3 on March 25, 2018
Fanvideos are mainly posted to YouTube, the first one was posted on March 25, 2018.paper love by neuwrecktomy, posted on March 25, 2018
===Common Tropes & Fanon===
* Smut is a large factor in the fanfiction works, usually due to the UST between Beth and Rio. Angst and Fluff is less common
* Before it was revealed in S1 finale of the lack of tattoos on Rio's arms, writers would have more tattoos besides his neck one this includes is arms which was generally hidden by his hoodies.
* Beth being called Red or having red hair, while she mostly has blonde in the show, there are times where it has red tint to it causing it to look more like strawberry blonde hair. It might also be because Christina Hendricks, the actress behind Beth, generally has red hair in RL.
* Episode Tags, Missing Scenes and fix-its, especially for the first season's finale but various other episodes also have works focused on them.
** Post Season: Season 1 finale ended on a cliffhanger and a lot of the works start from there.
* Fake/Pretend Relationship usually between Beth/Rio that leads to something more
* Age Difference between Beth & Rio, which fanon usually gives them about 10 year difference
==Fanworks==
===Fics===
* Housewives and Gangbangers series by thingcalledlove, A series of standalone stories about Beth/Rio that loosely follow a linear timeline, though they could still be read in any order or without needing to read anything else in the series.
* Peaches & Cream by sleepylotus, After spinning such a good story for the FBI Beth thinks she deserves a little congratulations. As it turns out Rio is all too happy to oblige her... (Beth/Rio, explicit)
* Beth’s fantasy about Rio by kristilynn (Beth/Rio, explicit)
* Go Home – An Episode 1x09 Remix by sleepylotus, But…what if Beth hadn’t thrown the keys? (Beth/Rio)
===Fanvids===
* paper love by neuwrecktomy (Beth/Rio)
* Swim by Everyone HasChoices (Beth/Rio)
* I need a gangster by Kandiapple9001 (Beth/Rio)
* Beth & Rio by JokerLover (Beth/Rio)
* fool for you by Kandiapple9001 (Beth/Rio)
===Fanart===
* Ruby, Beth, and Annie by peculiar--star
==Archives & Fannish Links==
* Good Girls works at AO3
* Good Girls works at FFN
* #GoodGirls at Twitter
* Good Girls Wiki
* r/GoodGirls/ a subreddit on Reddit
Tumblr
* Tumblr tags: NBC Good Girls, goodgirlsedit
* Daily Good Girls
* bethxriorideordie (Beth/Rio)
* bethrioshipper (Beth/Rio, no longer available?)
==References==
Category:Good Girls